giveaways

I’ve been listing items from my shop on  Cosa Verde for several months. It’s a great website that showcases “green” products of all kinds. You can search by organic, recyclable, etc. and all the shops I’ve seen are wonderful…that’s the beauty of having to apply to the site. Anyway, Cosa Verde had a table at [...]

Craft and CSA

Well, I’m starting to get my mojo back. Last week I baked cupcakes, picked up some un-finished knitting, and got back to planning some meals again. It’s about time. But I don’t know if I can promise more frequent postings just yet. Today is day four of no napping for Ruby (and me – grrrrr). [...]

Happy fall and CSA report

We usually celebrate the new season by having a big meal showcasing local food and such, but John was out of town the day of, we got a hot spell in the middle of the week, and I just didn’t have the energy for it all. We’ll postpone until October sometime. But Ruby and I [...]

CSA report

We share our CSA with another family just our size. It seems to work out pretty well for us this way. They are out of town this week though, so we got all of the food and are loving it!
yellow potatoes
carrots
romaine lettuce
cucumbers
Superstar onion
storage onion
shallot
orange pepper
red cabbage
cilantro
summer squash
yellow watermelon
tomatoes (2 lbs!)
corn
For lunch today I made a [...]

summer evenings

We’re beginning another heat wave here – I think the high is 95 today and 99 tomorrow (which means it will be over 100). But the past week or so it has been incredible. We have spent our days and nights outside. One night John and Ruby planted some of our fall/winter garden while I [...]

CSA update

I love, love, love summer foods! I can’t get enough berries, tomatoes, basil, and cilantro.
Today we got
rose gold potatoes
carrots
romaine lettuce
cucumber
superstar onion
leeks
anaheim
beets
eggplant
basil
honey orange melon
tomatoes – big ones and cherries
corn
We ate a raw corn (so delicious when its this fresh!), tomato (from the garden), basil (from the garden), onion salad with a bit of cheese and a [...]

how we survived the heat

Right now, its 2:00 and 65 out. It’s August. A week or so ago it was 108. I’m not sure what is happening here. We had several days of 100+ temperatures. If you don’t live here, I’m not sure I can describe to you what this is like. Most people don’t have a/c here. We [...]

Meet Your Maker Craft Show

Meet Your Maker had our craft show at a new location on Friday. We were at the Pizza Research Institute (PRI) which has the most delicious pizza I’ve eaten in a long time. It was really hot, but still a fun night. I packed up some samples of my new spicy bath fizzies to give [...]

book love

I’m not quite sure where I read it, but a mother wrote about her need to craft daily to keep her sanity and her sense of self. I can completely relate to this. I love my time creating, but don’t quite get to it daily. I do, however, read everyday. I have always needed to [...]

CSA, new stuff

I’m too hot to think straight, so this post may be a little crazy. But thats just the way things are right now…
CSA this week:
purple potatoes
purple carrots
red leaf lettuce
cucumber
walla-walla onion
scallions
Rainbow chard
moss parsley
zucchini and summer squash
raddicchio
blueberries
tomatoes
Last night (and lunch today) we ate this simple summer zucchini pasta dish that was very yummy and perfect for a [...]