A week ago, I hosted a clothing swap! The intent was to subversively reject Black Friday, which has turned out to be today. Those who attended my swap were too polite to speak up about my error! Just goes to show how in touch I really am with consumerism. In any case, I wanted to […]
Last year I wrote about what I wished Halloween could be for our family. I dreamed of a day when we could enjoy the spirit of Halloween in community without the abundance of candy and general tone of consumption. I wanted it to be filled with joy, excitement and good wholesome fun. This year, with […]
This past week when visiting friends, we were offered some of the grapes that were growing as a carport. What a beautiful gift to be given! I took a bag full. They also offered us some apples from a tree that had split and fallen down. I’m amidst so much processing of food at the […]
At our party last weekend, we had intended to do grafting and mushroom inoculating, but didn’t get to the latter. Rob has been working on evenings this week to complete the task, which is not difficult, just time consuming. Amassing the items required for the job was the most tedious part. We have been collecting […]
This recipe looks so easy and great I had to share it!
Our garlic scapes are now coming fast and furious! They are a wonderful byproduct of growing garlic, since by harvesting, the garlic bulbs grow much larger. In the interest of making no waste, we use every single one! I get asked a lot what we do with them all, so I thought others may have […]
We lost another one of our maple trees this past year, leaving not much chance of maple syrup production. We had heard about tapping black walnut trees, and since we have two nice sized ones have been dutifully collecting sap. Alright, so perhaps I haven’t been that good at keeping up with it, but Rob […]
Last week we finally cooked up the squirrels that have been waiting in our freezer. Being as we are not ones to waste anything, we kindly took the squirrels from my father-in-law who had been ‘culling the herd’ in order to protect his birdseed. Rob skinned and dressed them around Christmas time, and they have […]
We have some wonderful friends who eat an exclusively raw diet. They came over for dinner a couple weeks back, so I was inspired to get out our favourite raw cookbook, Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine by Gabriel Cousens, M.D.. I am always so pleased with what I make when it comes from this book. A common […]
I haven’t posted a recipe for a while, so I thought I would share this one for my favourite hummus! Ingredients: 1 small onion, chopped 5 gloves garlic, minced splash of Olive Oil 2.5 c cooked or canned chickpeas (garbanzo beans) ¾ c tahini or natural peanut butter 1.5 tbsp Braggs or soy sauce ½ […]
