The other night, six babies sick and Daddy at work, I took to the garden with my baby and picked dinner. There were green beans and squash snapped and chopped for frying. There were fresh dug potatoes and onions and garlic that still had dirt on ’em. When everyone is sick, and even when they’re…
The transition from spring to summer became official in the garden when, about two weeks ago now, temperatures reached triple digits more often than not. Some years are just like that – a late frost and a month later it is 100 degrees most days until September. As you can imagine, most of the spring…
We eat beans or legumes nearly every day in our home. I suppose that is one way we feed this growing family of ours real food on a budget. Beans and rice, beans and tortillas, lentils or hummus, and bean soups are not all that glamorous, but they are inexpensive, nourishing fare that can go…
It is a funny kind of irony that moving to the land and leaving the grid resulted in a break from some of our better eating habits. There were some needed compromises and some not-so-needed and I (and my many excuses and justifications) take full responsibility for this as the kitchen-dweller of the family. We were…
