Our Share of the Harvest

Last year, I had already made one batch of classic salsa from the Ball Blue Book when our CSA farm had a run on tomatoes. Worried about them going bad before I could use them, and already a little regretful that the classic salsa didn’t have the spice combination I wanted, I thought I’d make [...]

For this edition of What’s Baking, Jade from The Mess Pot suggested the theme “Celebrate Summer” and encouraged us to bake something that reminded us of summertime or used a summer ingredient. Remember I told you we picked 25 pounds of peaches?  Yeah, I’d be using some of those for this challenge and I hadn’t [...]

Greg and I have two very different methods of attempting most projects: I am tedious and methodical but complete, Greg is fast and efficient but messy.  About 3/4 of the time, we make a good team.  He ripped out the majority of the front lawn of ivy our sellers left us in about 15 minutes [...]

On Tuesday, we had an earthquake that everyone flipped out about.  Now, they are calling for hurricane Irene to slam the east coast.  Needless to say, people in Maryland, who know little to nothing about natural disasters, are thinking about stocking up and getting themselves prepared.  Well, if Irene gives us her worst and we’re [...]

My family is full of farmers, garden club members and seed catalog receivers.  So, it was no surprise that, after my parents quit farming, my mother filled some of her free time building a big vegetable garden which keeps expanding each year.  She has herbs, peppers, squash, cucumbers, sweet potatoes and pumpkins (new this year!).  [...]