Sustainable Eats

In addition to my canning frenzy I’ve been busy taking things out and putting things in lately. My brassicas have been under the grow lights for way longer then I care to admit, getting leggy and crowded and pleading for freedom.
I finally took the corn out the other night (braving rat attacks) and put [...]

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It turns out that my karma has nothing to fear. The rats are indeed healthy and active in not just one but two burrows. Why eat poison when you have 30 tomato plants to choose from? And it’s true what they say, 2 out of 2 rat families prefer heirloom tomatoes.
They’ve now [...]

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Saturday was the day I had signed up for 36 pounds of peaches from Rama farm and while I was at the market I thought it would be a good idea to pick up peppers to pickle. A peck of course. Then when I got home I realized we still had rat issues and I [...]

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Wednesday around noon I checked on the garden then left for an hour. When I came back there were rat teeth marks in my biggest eggplant. Cringing, I picked it and then cut off the part that had been gnawed. After all, eggplants are rarer then a pink elephant in Seattle gardens.
An [...]

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As part of Wardeh’s Tuesday Twister, here’s what’s been twisting in my kitchen in the last week:

Black bean burgers

Caponata

Tomato sauce

S’mores cupcakes

Bacon cheddar scones

Dill pickles from home grown cukes
And a great many other things I’ve already forgotten…

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Nothing says summer to me quite like caponata. You know if you have all the ingredients growing in your own garden that summer is cresting and you’d better pull out your hammock, brew some ice tea and kick back to enjoy it before the mad flurry of Labor Day happens.

We’ve had a few eggplants [...]

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Have you ever seen Willi’s gardening blog?
It’s a great local blog with some terrific recipes for eating local produce. I was perusing one night since my friend Justine wrote a post on her prolific honey bees which are in next year’s plans for me. I scanned the recipes and the Red Gravy one caught my [...]

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Just about every recipe I use in the winter seems to include a can of tomatoes. Since taking our locavore pledge on January 1 the only canned food I’ve purchased, and by the case I might add, is tomatoes. Tomatoes, tomato sauce and tomato paste. Granted they are organic tomatoes but I don’t know a [...]

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Since starting our local, seasonal kick I haven’t had many luxuries when it comes time for getting dinner on the table pronto and frugal isn’t necessarily something I’ve been able to be. I haven’t gone over what we used to spend but I certainly haven’t been spending way less either.
I was so excited tonight [...]

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As I spent the better part of the week washing dishes and equipment only to turn around and dirty them again it occured to me to post a list of all the things that I find indispensible. At some point I’ll come back and link them to Amazon images so you can see what [...]

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