What’s the Mission?
I didn’t grow lemons. I grew tomatoes. And I made lots of them into tomato jam, thinking I would give it away as gifts. However, this year the jam did not set! I don’t know why – perhaps I used the wrong pectin? Or the wrong variety of tomatoes? At any rate, I didn’t give [...]
We got our first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box this past Thursday! It’s exciting, because we’ve never belonged to a real CSA before. We’ve gotten produce from the farmers’ market, and from a couple of different food-buying clubs, but never through a CSA. Our first box included garlic chives, garlic scapes, broccoli raab, arugula, several [...]
I think I’m a pretty good cook. But sometimes I mess up, or stuff just happens, and we have to deal with it! Here are a couple of examples in which we did NOT deal with it by getting takeout. Pease Porridge Hot, Pease Porridge Cold I thought I’d throw some split peas, rice, and [...]
No, we did NOT get Chinese take-out! Chicken Fried Rice was actually a great way to use up leftovers and things we already had on hand. I used the remains of a roasted chicken, some long-frozen carrots, homemade chicken broth, and fresh green onions and zucchini from the garden. Here’s my recipe, adapted from an [...]
After making my strawberry freezer jam, our neighbor (a young, single lady) came over with two more bags of strawberries! She also gave us some strawberry plants, as hers are spreading too far. I decided to try the Small Batch Strawberry Jam recipe that I’d seen at Cooking Up a Story, and made three jars [...]
This is the first of two posts on The Six-o-Clock Scramble and its founder, Aviva Goldfarb. Read part 2 here. Here’s how our evenings go: I leave work somewhere between 4:30 and 5:00. I weave through neighborhoods and past traffic on my Xtracycle (rain or shine), and pick up my two older daughters at their [...]
I bought a Sunburst Squash at the farmers’ market the other day, even though I’d never seen one before! They’re gorgeous and sunshiny, and looking at them made me smile. PD Farms was selling them along with their usual meat products, so I bought one to make my purchase an even dollar amount. Later, I [...]
Yesterday I made this year’s first trip to the local farmers’ market. It’s a small, neighborhood market, so unfortunately the produce pickings were slim. It’s still the early season for produce in Oregon, but the market also had only one real produce vendor (out of 15-20 total vendors). That vendor had asparagus, kale, mustard greens, [...]
