i grew that, i ate that

i can think of few things more gratifying then picking fresh food from your garden and planning a meal around it. thankfully we have a myriad of things that work well together. Yesterday i plucked tomatoes, chives, thyme, sage, parsley, peppers, green beans and rainbow chard for dinner.

thanks to our other handy neighbor Jan for fresh boiled crab that we cracked and treated with meyer lemon juice

deep fried sage leaves with sea salt for bread crumbs

fresh stock made with 8 cloves of garlic, carrot, potato, thyme and parsley

sweet wonderfully crunchy beans right off the vine

minced garlic and fried sage leaves to be sauteed with butter and bread crumbs

chard

well, that i didn't grow but you bet i drank it

parm rind to cube up and add at the end

strain the stock, add in some heavy cream and all the veggies plus crab meat, top with bread crumbs and bake it off.

it looses something by way of color but the taste was perfect for a chilly fall like evening

a tid bit

i recently added a third raised bed for winter planting of which i best be gettin' on.

I love raised beds, no wood to mess with, things to build...just tilling the soil, amending it and planting.

basil, the quintessential summer herb and boy do we have a lot. so much that I am finally tired of it. jars of pesto are now taking up space in the freezer for a winter long of fried eggs w/ pesto on bagels. Here is a wonderful gift from my mom that sits in the garden along side her fathers painted frog from the nursery back home in Illinois. Thanks mom! I love my glowing dragonfly.

first rain barrel for catchment and watering the garden

potatoes growing rapidly and in their little cedar nest that Bob made. just waiting for them to flower, then die, then harvest, then cold store.

happy almost one year anniversary pooh. the right side compartment is our humanure composting away and beginning November 1st we will put this pile to rest for one more year when it will then be ready to go back into the earth. pretty darn cool.

grinding it out

Bob grinds away any rust remaining on steel frame of the Spartan, while I order up our Nuvite polishes for the exterior aluminum...learn more here www.perfectpolish.com

neighbors

i know i've mentioned our ill meth making neighbors before...but i should bury that topic with mention of all our wonderful neighbors instead, primarily Rob & Judy. Although our property is on the south side of Black Bear, where we have our beloved neighbors Robin & Jim and Dacia; on the north side of Black Bear we have our "shop" neighbors and of those Rob & Judy are our faves. Every week they put out a cashew container with 5 bucks for bagels, they lend tools, encourage our projects and lifestyle and make Black Bear a wonderful place to be.