Tag Archive for ‘peaches’
REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE – URBAN HOMESTEAD MEALS
On the food front… The figs are finally ripe so we devoured our first fig quesadilla of the season. I know, sounds odd but it’s soooo delicious!
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: URBAN HOMESTEAD WEEKLY EATS
The wonderful food from the garden keeps coming. What a tremendous blessings it is to enjoy such bounty that are grown just feet from our table!
CAPTURING A SWARM
We are back! It was nice break but not really sure I can say I actually caught up or anything – but that’s life! Another storm blew yesterday and dumped about 3/4″ of rain – what a tremendous blessings that was! The garden seems to have grown overnight. Everything is lush and beautiful. Justin tallied [...]
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 [...]
PEACHES!
We are on a canning spree here on the urban homestead and it looks like it won’t let up anytime soon. Today we put up some tomato sauce and sweet pickle relish (pictures coming…. probably Sunday) This week the peaches have ripen and peaches means jam and a few (er bunch) eaten raw. Covered in [...]
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 [...]
FRUITOPIA
Summer means hot temps and fruit, fruit, fruit. Here on the urban homestead we are harvesting grapes, apples, peaches, blueberries (have a whole ziplock bagful!) and strawberries. Ripening soon will be figs and elderberries. For some reason, don’t know if it has to do with the weather but the clusters of grapes contain semi ripe, [...]
WEEKLY MEAL WRAPUP
Though our schedule was slightly interrupted with a slew of different community events, here’s what we enjoyed eating last week. SATURDAY out SUNDAY Breakfast – out Dinner – homemade pizza topped with homegrown, marinated peppers, homegrown-made tomato sauce, organic cheese and homegrown salad MONDAY Breakfast – homemade skillet granola Lunch – homegrown-made kimchi (made with [...]
