The April meeting of the Portland Preservation Society was SO good! It’s such a fun thing to be part of. I made quarts of pickled beets with honey (not pictured here) to share, and in the end, I brought home pickled red onions, curry pickled cauliflower, romesco, lemon throat coat/hot toddy mix, and parsley-olive oil [...]
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By myself, I could probably make it to the pond and back in maybe 20 minutes if I really hurried, but since Henry left for California, the kids and I have being collecting sap together each morning. With my sap-collecting buddies, the same trip takes at least hour. There are always banana slugs to examine, rock [...]
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First off, we don’t know what we’re doing. Secondly, THIS IS SO MUCH FUN! A few weeks back, Henry and I were standing around the kitchen, and maybe it was because I’d been reading too much Little House in the Big Woods to the kids or admiring archived posts on Amanda’s blog, but for some [...]
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I used to think I didn’t like Portland much, but I’ve decided it’s about time I reconsider. I spent most of the day in the city yesterday, and really, it was pretty great. I used the January meeting of the Portland Preservation Society as my excuse for heading north, but the idea of having a [...]
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These are quite possibly the ugliest apples that ever were, but they’re also rather delicious. One of Henry’s clients (Randy) is a bit of an apple-grafting enthusiast, and he gifted us a couple buckets of ‘Gold Rush’ apples the last time Henry went out to trim the horses. The biggest ones are just shy of [...]
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I first heard about the Portland Preservation Society on Instagram. I can’t remember exactly who’s feed it was mentioned on (maybe Anne‘s or Jen‘s or Emily‘s or Brooke‘s), but the idea was immediately intriguing. I was familiar with the idea of canned food swaps, but I’d never been to one. It seemed a little crazy [...]
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I’m currently broadcasting from sunny Anderson, California on this relaxing (definitely NOT shopping-til-I-drop) day after Thanksgiving. Last night’s meal was predictably fabulous: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, fruit, cranberry sauce, mashed sweet potato and carrot dish, and marinated tempeh, followed by apple, pumpkin, and/or berry pie. Probably 90% of it was homemade/homegrown, mostly by my parents, [...]
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I made hot pepper jelly for the first time last year. The problem was that I didn’t put up nearly enough, and it was gone way too fast. This year, I (sort of) used the hot pepper jelly recipe from the Pomona’s Universal Pectin* directions, and I subbed our own honey for sugar. The resulting [...]
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I spend a lot of time with my mom. I’m probably at her house at least five days a week this time of year. For the most part, we get along pretty well, but I’m always trying to get her to change her inefficient ways of doing things (because of course I know how to [...]
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I think I’ve got a winter’s worth of tomatoes canned. Applesauce, pickles, a couple dozen jars of plum jam…check, check, check. One of the last things to cross off my annual food-preservation list was this roasted tomato-sweet pepper sauce, and now I’ve done that, too. Here’s the scoop… Get a bunch of tomatoes. (I started [...]
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