Now that you’ve decided what to plant and where to plant, it’s time to build your beds! The most basic technique for creating a garden bed is double digging. As the name implies, double dug beds are carefully turned with a garden shovel once over the whole surface. Some peat moss and/or compost can...
Read more →Do you ever come home to an empty fridge but still want something delicious to eat? We recently returned from the Mid Atlantic coast. Without time for a trip to the grocery store, I wanted a simple healthy meal we could make from pantry ingredients. Knowing that we had plenty of home canned tomatoes...
Read more →We just returned from a vacation to the Chesapeake Bay and surrounds. There were so many things I wanted to write about on the road but we never had good enough coverage to upload photos. Pictures are worth the wait, right? On Monday we drove west out of Ohio and stopped for lunch at...
Read more →Jaime Oliver, British chef, TV star, and activist, is launching his Food Revolution here in the US. Contrary to many reality show hosts, Oliver is not just a pretty face working for advertising dollars. He has campaigned in the UK for years to improve the school food system and encourage from scratch cooking with...
Read more →April has five Thursdays, which means five Kids Cook classes! Children aged 3 – 6 years can join me at Sprout Soup (4310 N High St) from 11:15 am – 12 pm. Here are the topics for April: Thursday, April 1 – Butter Thursday, April 8 – Veggie Sushi Thursday, April 15 – Lettuce...
Read more →You may have read Devie the hound dog’s version of making sausage. Here’s my version of the basics. I received the book Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman last Christmas. Since then I experimented with making my own bacon, smoking various meats and cooking confit of all sorts. Until recently, I had not attempted to make...
Read more →Usually I would post our week’s meal plan today. Because we are leaving for a vacation to the Eastern shore of Virginia tomorrow, I have no mindful menu. That doesn’t mean I’m not planning, though! Eating on vacation, especially a driving vacation like ours, can be a string of fast food restaurants. The salt...
Read more →Yesterday we collected the first egg from our backyard chickens!! Our guess is that one of the Buff Orpingtons laid it, as they were particularly vocal yesterday. Today we collected another egg. This time we saw an Orpington in the nesting box so it surely came from her. We scrambled the two smaller than...
Read more →I was writing this basic sausage making post and looking at pictures I took. I noticed Devie in every.single.picture! She has been an integral witness to all sausage making events so I thought it would be fun to narrate from her perspective. Sausage making is awesome. Every time the bald guy (Alex) brings the...
Read more →The time change, sunshine, and green things sprouting everywhere are sure signs that spring is coming. Join me to celebrate the season! On Saturday the 20th I am hosting the EGGstravaganza for kids of all ages from 12 – 1:30 pm at Sprout Soup. We’ll make lunch, dye eggs, and visit a laying hen. ...
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