Yesterday, in my blog post about chocolate-covered peanut butter balls, I mentioned that I don’t get too into baking for the holidays. Yet, here I am, about to write about another holiday sweet. Today’s delight is a bit healthier. It’s entirely vegan and raw. I’m writing about date balls! Medjool dates arrive to our houseContinue reading “Date Balls”
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Happy Summer Solstice!
Little Bear, all decked out Bonfires. Singing and dancing. Drum circles. Trekking to Stonehenge to join in chants of “All Hail the Sun!” All common ways to celebrate the summer solstice, but slush and dogs? Slush and dogs is exactly how our newly-made dog park family decided to celebrate the day of birth, sunlight, growth,Continue reading “Happy Summer Solstice!”
Berry Blast: Aronia, Honeyberry, Hardy Kiwi, and Elderberry Plantings
Aronia flowers today Our bees will soon arrive and will they have plenty to pollinate! An early spring jump-started our annual trip to Jung’s Garden Center, and we had pre-ordered 10 aronia plants from Bellbrook Berry Farm in Brooklyn, Wisconsin, so the yard is buzzing with young fruit plants (pun intended). To start with, we plantedContinue reading “Berry Blast: Aronia, Honeyberry, Hardy Kiwi, and Elderberry Plantings”
Stealing from Squirrels: Harvesting Black Walnuts
Today’s harvest We moved into a house on a one-acre plot of land and were lucky enough to inherit five full-grown black walnut trees. Our first year here, we didn’t realize our fortune and probably just complained about the slipperiness over which we had to mow in the fall. I remember almost falling with theContinue reading “Stealing from Squirrels: Harvesting Black Walnuts”
Pineapple Salsa
We got a pineapple in our first fruit CSA box of the season! In a few nights, we’re having the Poquettes over to celebrate a belated Father’s Day. How do these two random sentences relate? GRILLED PINEAPPLE SALSA for said get-together.We’ll be serving these up with some tortilla chips before dinner. Huge yum factor! Here’sContinue reading “Pineapple Salsa”
Therapy in the Kitchen: Squash and Pear Soup, plus Plout-Apple Crisp
Life has been a roller coaster lately, and so dining out has been plentiful as have homemade goodies baked for us by our friends. Today we realized our refrigerator was busting with food, ready to vomit out bags of veggies and fruit at its first opening. Our little feather-footed Bantam, Ani, died this morning, andContinue reading “Therapy in the Kitchen: Squash and Pear Soup, plus Plout-Apple Crisp”
Viva Mexico with Applesauce? . . . and Locavores Like Local Apples
On Tuesday evening, Andy and I ventured to the Door Creek Orchard in Cottage Grove. What a lovely place! Sheep, a beautiful apple orchard, and a quaint country store. We will be heading back! The purpose of our after-school detour was twofold. On Wednesday, my colleague, Carol Samuel, and I were hosting our first LOCAVOREContinue reading “Viva Mexico with Applesauce? . . . and Locavores Like Local Apples”
The Poquette Zoo and Kitchen 