Hi folks! I am so happy that our heat wave has finally broken. It has been miserable here! Given the weather (and my pregnancy…have we mentioned that?), I’ve been eating a LOT of ice cream. A LOT of ice cream. But not nearly enough to make me sick of it, unfortunately. In an attempt to avoid strange ingredients and unnatural dyes (green mint chocolate chip, anyone?), I’ve been making a lot of it at home. . . . → Read More: Getting Creative with Cucumbers
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 One comment - (Comments are closed)  CSA, Desserts, Recipes  cucumber, dessert, ice cream, strawberries If we can keep from eating all our strawberries in a day, they go bad pretty quickly. Certainly much faster than the grocery store variety. Honestly, I take that as a sort of assurance – they’re not covered with nasty chemicals that keep them perfectly preserved. However, sometimes I want my Saturday strawberries to last until Tuesday, so I use the following technique. They won’t last for weeks and weeks, but you should get another . . . → Read More: How to Make Farmers’ Market Strawberries Last Longer Dad! Don’t read this post until Sunday! My dad has many amazing qualities. He can make a game out of anything – including rolled up socks, the packing material from our new blinds, and a big bucket leftover from some construction project. Incidentally, bucket rides also illuminated one of my mom’s best qualities – trusting that her husband wouldn’t put her kids in the hospital and letting us have some crazy fun. Dad . . . → Read More: Father’s Day Breakfast Idea: How to Make Homemade Pop Tarts Comments are closed Breakfast, Recipes All-Natural Breakfast, bacon, brunch, Canning, Fathers' Day, how to eat locally, jam, local flour, Recipe, rhubarb, strawberries a.k.a How to Can Summer I don’t use my . . . → Read More: How to Can Strawberry Lemonade Comments are closed Canning/Preserving, Recipes Canning, how to eat locally, lemonade, local food, strawberries [Note: This should have been posted yesterday, but I ran into some technical issues.] After days and days of rain (including a crazy thunderstorm yesterday and resulting power-outage), today was just fantastic. To take advantage of the beautiful weather, a friend and I headed up (over?) to Red Fire Farm to pick some strawberries. Our CSA includes some pick-your-own opportunities, so we went bonkers and got 8 quarts each. That’s enough for two batches . . . → Read More: Field Trip! Strawberry Picking at Red Fire Farm |
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