My mom is a super soup genius. She can make a soup or stew from just about anything random left in the kitchen. And they always turn out fabulous. About ten years ago she made me a binder for Christmas with favorite family recipes, including many soups. I’ve been adding to the binder and recently …
Category Archives: Very Domestic
More in the kitchen—the spice
Bj and I have a tiny little kitchen, but we have it set up to work for us. The old ironing board was turned into a spice rack when I first moved in, and I didn’t think I’d run out of space. But then I started canning (queue things like dill seed into the mix) …
Autumn
All from a two block radius around our house. It is chilly. I want the heat on all the time… and blankies. I’m working super hard to get a rhythm down as we head into long cold nights and short rainy days. I’ve decided to try and get a bit of schedule together for myself, …
Warmed.
Warmed in the morning. Erin’s honey, local peaches, Tuesday smashed almonds, finally getting oatmeal just right. And warmed in the evening. Tuesday said to me while driving: Mama one day when I get big I do lots of things. What will you do? have gum scrapbook make pancakes cut fruit grow food in the …
Twice as much fun
I have been having so much fun canning lately, but yesterday with my mom it was the best. Not only did we get a serious amount of canning done, but it was so much fun working with her! 1. I brought so much stuff over! We powered through a lot of the goodness from the …
Can’t seem to stop…
Pizza sauce, apple pie filling, mystery canning project for holiday gift giving, dill relish, refrigerator pickle slices, and salsa verde. Also known as: why I don’t have a post up!
Hot and steamy
That’s what it’s been like in my kitchen for the past two weeks as I have gone mad with canning and putting away food for the winter. I don’t know exactly what came over me, well there was that one 40 pound box of organic apples at the Saturday market that I just couldn’t pass …
She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes…
Tuesday has been sleeping through the night for almost a month—hooray! Tuesday takes up to 3 hours of back patting, rocking and singing to to fall asleep—boo! In my songs-I-know-the-words-to repertoire everything is feeling a bit old and I’m really digging deep for some new material. In some cases that material is actually being dug …
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The Details
Thanks for the love on Tuesday's costume. I had a whole other thing planned, and had already figured out part of that costume, but it involved Bj and I, and since we had to skip out on the party we were going to thanks to some sleepless nights I decided to scrap it. Then I …
The forth year of fiber
On Saturday my neighbor, her friend, Tuesday and I headed to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. It was my forth year of going, the first was at the end of the first summer at my new cottage. I love looking at all the fun stuff, colors, animals, fiber, yarn, and I knew Tuesday would …