Tag Archive for ‘green beans’
HOMEGROWN TRADITION
The Saturday after Thanksgiving we hosted our (think it’s) Sixth Annual “After Thanksgiving” gathering. New and old friends and this time around even a few of our front porch farm stand customers were invited to celebrate good food and good times.
GREEN BEANS STILL IN THE GARDEN
Green beans in November? What a treat! What summer hold outs do you have in your garden?
RAINY DAYS N’ MONDAYS
After a week’s worth of rain, the sun did slightly (for a brief glimpse) peek thru on Saturday just before another storm blew in giving us another round of heavy drizzle last night and into the morn.
JUNE HARVEST TALLY
June is the tipping point month were things can either go up hill or downhill … and fast! So far, we are holding steady. Some things are growing well, while others not so much.
REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE: Weekly Meal Wrap Up
Whew doggie! It’s been a busy week here at the urban homestead. Busy with bees (getting ready to harvest some honey!), battling bad bugs, moving the tender greens to cooler spot in the yard and getting things ready for a major can-a-thon.
GREEN BEANS!
There’s green beans in the garden (and clean clothes on the line!) Summer is here and so are scrumptious vegetables that we’ve eagerly anticipated for nearly 1/2 a year. After so long, isn’t it just a blessings to sit down and devour a heaping plate of green beans slather in butter. MMMMM Ms Fairlight, our [...]
WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
It’s starting to FINALLY feel like FALL! To celebrate the change in season we cut open one of of our first winter squashes (Burgess Buttercup) yum! SATURDAY Breakfast – homemade/homegrown pancakes topped with homegrown strawberries Dinner – homemade flour tortillas, homemade spanish rice (homegrown onions, peppers, tomatoes) with homegrown sauteed pepper and local avocado and [...]
WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
The meals last week were certainly very colorful and tasty. We are still working on using up the huge bag of carrots we harvested a few weeks back so we enjoyed an easy and very delicious carrot salad with almost each one of our meals. The tromboncino squashes are young and very tender and sweet [...]
WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
The weather is still cool for this time of year. I have to pinch myself – can’t believe it’s August! I’ve noticed too that there’s not been many June bugs either. Spotted only two this week, last year we had a whole army of ‘em – it was like an invasion! Well, we are just [...]
WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
What’s with the weather? Today and yesterday morning it feels like fall? I know the coolness will burn off once the sun comes out but it really doesn’t feel like the August we are so used to. Jordanne and I were commenting on the sound – it changed. Yeah, sounds funny but it’s not. We [...]
