food

Canning Tomatoes

September 2, 2010

Last weekend, my husband picked enough corn from our garden to fill our wheelbarrow.  He and our son sat on the back porch husking the ears while I blanched the cobs and then froze the kernels on trays.  We now have about 20 quarts of corn in our freezer. That part was easy.  I wasn’t [...]

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More Ways To Use Zucchini

August 25, 2010

We have a lot of zucchini right now.  I think that’s the case for most people who grow it, and like most, I’m always looking for ways to use it in interesting and tasty recipes.  I’ve made several dozen zucchini muffins over the last week or so, and frozen them.  This is the recipe I [...]

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Saturday’s Harvest

August 1, 2010

Everyday lately we’ve been harvesting a good chunk of our food from our backyard.  I’ve noticed that our grocery bill is less than half of our usual total, and the cart looks pretty empty when we get to the checkout stand.  Here are a couple of pictures that show most of what we harvested yesterday: [...]

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Shredded Zucchini Salad

July 27, 2010

Did I mention we have nine zucchini plants?  And that they are all thriving?   We’re trying to stay on top of them and pick them when they’re small, but every once in a while we miss one and find it when it’s the size of a small dog (I think they go from small [...]

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The Luxury Of Frugal Thinking

July 8, 2010

I don’t know the exact demographics of our town, but it’s definitely a lower-income area than the city where we used to live.  There is only one grocery store in town, and it’s not stocked with organic produce and ten dollar jars of coconut butter.  Houses here are lot less expensive than they were in [...]

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Avoiding Nestle Without Even Trying

July 4, 2010

I was aware from a very young age that my parents didn’t buy any Nestle products.  They explained the reasons for the boycott, and it made perfect sense to me.  After spending two years in Africa with the Peace Corps, those reasons made even more sense.  I don’t knowingly buy Nestle products, but the boycott [...]

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Sharing Some Great Recipes

June 7, 2010

Thanks for all the great feedback about creating a life that needs no escape.  Just to clarify, that post was in no way meant to be anti-travel.  I love to travel, and spent my 20s doing quite a bit of it.  Since our son was born, we’ve significantly curtailed our traveling.  We have no desire [...]

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Nearly Ready To Put Plants In Our Garden

April 29, 2010

We are nearly ready to plan out seedlings outside.  Well, we’re ready, but mother nature has other plans, so we’re patiently waiting.  We should be able to plant them out next week, if the 10 day forecast is looking good.  If not, we’ll have to wait until the week after.  Ever since we unleashed the [...]

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Seedlings Seedlings Everywhere

April 19, 2010

We have seedlings coming out our ears right now.  Here’s a picture of our hydroponic area in the basement: There are so many seedlings that they don’t even come close to fitting into the actual hydroponic trays.  A lot of them are just sitting around the edges, getting the benefit of the grow light (plus [...]

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Our Homemade Strawberry Hanger

April 7, 2010

After I wrote about the hanger my husband made to hold our upside-down strawberry planters, I got a request for a picture.  Here it is: The angle of the picture makes it look like the planter on the left is resting on the ground, but it isn’t.  They’re both about eight inches off the ground.  [...]

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