Playing with Food

We're starting to get some serious heat and the garden is exploding... The front garden Pink Magnolia A welcome weed--these violas...

The task at hand is four cords of wood to be stacked. It seems like we just got over winter to be thinking about firewood but, in a way, the...

We really are just a knitting group and don't drink anything besides wine--red or white is as hard core as we get, until Emily, one of ...

Chives are at their peak right now, about 10"-12" tall here in my zone 5 garden. They're best before they start to bloom for o...

It's been a wet and rainy kind of day but I was prepared for the rain. When soaking rain is expected, I try to get as much in the groun...

Spring roll lettuce wrap for two When I make spring rolls I will usually double the recipe and stash them away in the freezer. Later in t...

Spring is definitely in the air... and while I wait for the last snow to melt, I'm on a mission to use up everything I put up last s...

Yesterday the temperature was in the mid forties and sunny. I sat outside in the warm sunshine, boiling sap, making syrup. Today snow... So...

One and a half quarts of maple syrup made from eight 2 gallon buckets of sap, collected over a period of three days and twelve hours of boi...

By now my stash of garlic has seen better days, they're starting to grow roots and sprout green shoots in the middle. It's time to ...