Sustainable Eats

Either way you put it it’s tomato time. I picked up my 25 pounds of romas today that Sustainable Greenlake had delivered and set to work tonight after the littlest one was in bed. I ended up using about 18 pounds worth to make ketsup since my pot could only hold 2 gallons of liquid [...]

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I still am not back on my desktop with the photo software so no photos unfortunately.
The rats are back and onto the tomatoes like never before. In one hour 6 of my largest Cherokee Purple were ruined as well as countless sauceys. I finally took the netting off the eggplants, picked the last 2 eggplants [...]

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Hopefully sometime next week I’ll get my desktop restored and be able to download photos again. Until then just imagine amazing plumness.
I’m winding down the plums in my kitchen unless I can convince my kids to come pick plums with me tomorrow from a neighbor’s tree. That’s assuming today’s blustery weather didn’t knock them all [...]

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I have no idea where this week went but it’s been bar none the longest week of my life. OK I may be conveniently forgetting the weeks around the birth of my two kids but it’s been pretty darn long!
Besides working to restore computer files and software programs on a laptop that was only [...]

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My computer came down with a cough last week in the form of blue screen of death and then finally flashed virus warnings like crazy so I’ve been busy installing my life onto a laptop I had fortunately ordered merely weeks ago.
It’s amazing the number of software applications I need to run my daily life! [...]

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Last Thursday I dragged the kids out to pick blackberries before they were gone and we came home with just enough for one cobbler and a round of blackberry juice inspired by Tilth Restaurant in Wallingford. We made it today and it was amazing (don’t I always say that though?) Just so you know I [...]

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This morning after a breakfast of our own acorn squash muffins I made myself a good stiff bloody mary out of my own A-11 and prepared to off the tomatoes. A-11 is what we’ve dubbed the vegetable juice I made from 11 of our veggies a few weeks back during the first of many [...]

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It’s true – my tomatoes have blight. I spent some time with them this afternoon, trying to cheer them up and picking most of the green tomatoes off the saucey and stupice vines and tomorrow I’ll pull up all the plants. Nuts. They were just developing a whole new round of fruit [...]

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I spy….my kitchen counter again finally!
It’s been a few weeks now that I’ve had my head stuck in the canning pot but I’m almost out! The last two weekends I’ve gotten 36 pounds of amazing peaches from Rama Farms at the UW farmer’s market. They should have them at least through next weekend and are [...]

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Who doesn’t love a snickerdoodle? Or ice cream? Together they are other-worldly, especially on summer’s fruit crips and cobblers.
We try to limit our intake of sweets but I’ve got two young kids with sweet teeth so I try to beef up any desserts or treats we have. This ice cream [...]

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