Rainy day. A day for playing loud music, slow-braising lamb and root vegetables, and finally tidying my office.
Category: Home Living
Low Mileage
Filled up the tank in our 1996 Honda Civic today. That’s the fourth time I’ve filled it up this year.
Frozen Apple Crisp Kits
Gave away frozen apple crisp kits today to neighbors. Plenty more in (stuffed) freezer.
Apple Crisp Kit Production
Apple crisp kit production line, today. Tree produced its best apples ever: we stopped picking at 100 lbs.
Vietnamese Veggies
Today, found good bike route to Minneapolis Farmers’ Market. I need to ask The Google how to cook Vietnamese veggies.
Flying the Flag
Labor Day 2013. Flying our flag.
Pesto Time
Sunday: Time to make pesto. We’ll enjoy our basil all winter.
Eggplant
Minnesota-grown eggplant at Wedge Co-op. Dinner tonight.
Kale Chronicles
We grew kale this summer, so it has been our default vegetable for the past month. Kale is extraordinarily easy to prepare. Here’s a 20-second video (my first cooking show) showing how to quickly remove the stem and break up the leaf, all without the use of tools. This is one of my favorite kale… Continue reading Kale Chronicles