I look forward to making this vinegar every year. It’s delicious as an ingredient in your favorite homemade dressing for salads or in this cocktail I created a couple of year’s ago here.
It shouts SUMMER! Cheers to a great season!
Category Archives: garden
Food at Home :: Front Yard Harvest
Slacker! That’s me in documenting our family garden this year. If you haven’t read my posts about gardening before, you should know that we consider our family accidental gardeners. We try things we think will work without really knowing what we’re doing. We also use our front yard for the garden because it gets the… Continue Reading
In the Jar :: Lemon Moxie
My nine-year-old asked me what my favorite hobby was the other day. I think I told him cooking or reading, but my new favorite hobby is making cocktails from my garden. I recently made Sage Blossom Simple Syrup (read here) and created a cocktail out of it called, Sweet Sage Blossom. It hooked me. For… Continue Reading
Sage Blossom Simple Syrup
I can label myself an accidental gardener with no judgment or regret. Every year, I plant and nurture what is in my yard and am always filled with wonder by what survives and what I can use for the family belly. I have two square foot gardens, one being a perennial herb garden. I grow… Continue Reading
The Last Tomato
Isn’t it pretty? This shot is SOOC (straight out of the camera.) Today, I was supposed to post about a DIY project I’ve been working on, but it’s just short of complete. So, the tomato is kind of a DIY. It was one of the few things that grew in our square foot garden this… Continue Reading
OM :: The Strawberry Patch
I take frequent walks on wooded trails with my dog, Scout. These trails are on protected land not far from my neighborhood. But they are nestled into other recently developed neighborhoods that we’ve dubbed the McMansions. Not an original name, but we know that it means a huge house that takes up most of its… Continue Reading
Garden Potential
A few photographs from our garden as it stands today. We might have something here… {clockwise from top left: strawberries; peas; chives; raspberries; peony} Continue Reading
Peas Please
I am excited! Those are my peas sprouting from the ground! If you read this blog regularly (and a big smooch, if you do), I have a food memory of peas that I’m trying to recreate this year. I was probably eight or nine and at our friends’ farm in rural Wisconsin. It was summertime… Continue Reading