Recipe Box 
Passion Fruit Sauce Thanks to an increase in our passion fruit production this month we were able to make a huge batch of “tropical sauce.” To add a bit of a citrus/berry twist I added some blood orange juice (still working on using the 400 lbs of blood orange harvest!) 4 cups passion fruit pulp [...]
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NO KNEAD BREAD
Homemade bread We tried out a new bread recipe this week and it turned out really yummy. Besides that fact that it’s a “no-knead” recipe (leave it rise overnight and put in oven the next morning – that’s it!) I like that this method gives the hard outer texture and holey inner lightness of an [...]
(3) ODDS & ENDS
Bike trailer We are inspired by folks we know who use bikes as their only form of transportation. So, continuing towards our goal to lessen the use of our biodiesel car, which we use on average of 3 days a week (less than 4,000 miles a year), we decided to get atrailer for our bike(s). [...]
(4) THIS & THAT
Figs for lunch It’s another cool and overcast morning, quite unusual for August. Everyone’s wearing a light jacket/sweater. Poor plants are just as confused as we are. We recently we tried a delicious new fig recipe since we’ve been inundated with figs (the fruit trees are finally maturing!) –Fresh Fig Quesadillas, along with some [...]
(8) BACK TO LIFE ON THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
Good ol summertime The heat is on!!!! The past few days have been unbearably hot. The mercury will continue to reach well into the 100s for a few more days. On Thursday morning a huge flock of geese passed over the house heading South. Wonder if it was the same flock we saw pass [...]
(Comments Off) SUMMER’S WINDING DOWN
Harvested the last of the peaches and pretty soon the apples will be finished. The fall tomatoes have been planted, along with sweet potatoes, carrots, radishes and green crops. Pretty soon, JC will start snow peas and broccoli. Aug is vacation time for many of our restaurant clients — a few are off this week [...]
(0) BAKE ME A CAKE AS FAST AS YOU CAN
The past couple days, JM and I have made two yummy desserts for a dear friend of ours. The first on this “dessert marathon” was a chocolate cake made with duck eggs and topped with our luscious strawberries and cheery pansies. JM wanted to try a three layer cake, moving op from our normal two layer. [...]
(0) SELF SUFFICIENCY IN THE CITY
CATCHING UP We’vebeen a bit absent in posting these past few days as it was a busy-busy week here on the homestead… yep, heard all this before? Life on the”urban homestead” is busy, but we always have timefor a little sharing & socializing as we did over the weekend. Here’s some of the latest [...]
(0) SHINE ON
Corn almost as high as an elephant’s eye? Tomato jungle … machete anyone? What’s this!?! Could it be? There’s something bright and yellow in the sky…. Yes, the sun finally has come out and decided to stay! Hmmmm, I wonder if this sudden occurrence had anything to do with Melissa’s (akaPioneer Woman) sun dance? Now we [...]
(1) EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES
If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease. ~ Henry Vaughn ~ After a long absence of new photos, I finally had the time to upload some to ourPHOTO GALLERY. There are quite a lot ofNEW PICTURES, so please be patient while [...]
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