OLS Week 4: Geesh, we should have called someone…

Ever have a meal that’s just so good you wish you’d invited someone over for dinner?
Not that we don’t all deserve great meals every day, but sometimes, man, I realize too late that it would have been nice for other folks to see just how kick ass this particular dinner was!
Summer is now in full [...]

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One Year of Yankee Food

A year ago today, I started this blog in order to track my adventures as I attempted to eat more locally, without the benefit of my own garden, relying only on farmstands, pick-your-owns, and my CSA.
Throughout the year I’ve joined a CSA, bought meat raised less than 20 miles from here pretty much exclusively, been [...]

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OLS ‘08: Week 3

We ate a lot of local foods this week: beef tips, tomato sauce with sweet italian sausage, yummy local lettuce.  Only one meal was mostly all local, though, and even that had a major element that, while from within 100 miles of me, is not exactly sustainable: farmed salmon.  Ugh.  Perhaps the greenhouse-fresh cucumbers and [...]

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More wildlife…

There’s a nest of phoebes under the eaves of our car/boat port.
There are five babies in there.  Here are three of them:

And here’s the back of the one on top in the above photo, and the other two babies.

We’re worried about the top guy falling out!

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Bear Feeders

As soon as the snow starts melting, we have to start bringing in our birdfeeders, otherwise the neighborhood bears will be happy to use them as hors d’oeuvre trays. We usually bring them in when it gets dark, before heading to bed.
This weekend, my husband put the feeders back out when [...]

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OLS ‘08: Week Two

I’m tired people.  Tired.  But I’m conflicted because I feel like a brat feeling sorry for myself.  It’s not like I’m flooded out of my home, or like my town has been flattened by an earthquake.  I am able to return to my home every day, sleep in my own bed at night, and I [...]

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Rhubarb

One time, at drama camp, a counselor/director told me that, as an extra, I should repeat the word “rhubarb” over and over again while looking interested in the other actor with which I was pretending to have a conversation.  He would also be uttering “rhubarb” over and over again and we would pause where appropriate [...]

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One Local Summer ‘08: Week 1

Phew!  Right under the wire – my meal for this inaugural week of OLS ‘08 was just tonight!  I cleaned out the fridge, and used some of the last frozen veggies from last summer.
We had a bacon spinach quiche with a whole-wheat crust

and sauteed zucchini with butter and chive.  I always read that frozen veggies [...]

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Seriously, I love Jamie Oliver

Are you tired of me going on and on about my new boyfriend, Jamie Oliver?
Well, if you aren’t, and you, too, may be developing a little crush (or perhaps you’re way cooler than I am and already know that he cares about chickens and gardens and school lunches) check out his website, okay?  I dare [...]

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Food Free Friday: Bugs I Like

I don’t like bugs.  It’s one of the things that keeps me from being a gardener (that, and the fact that gardening takes away from other things I’d rather do!).  However, I don’t mind these guys:

I believe it’s a swallowtail butterfly. It was on the ground in a pathway in front of our house.  My [...]

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