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Winter herb strategy
My summer herb strategy is to have the herb garden downstairs so every time I need any I get a 25 stair times two stairclimbing routine. My winter herb strategy is to prune the garden back and let it overwinter, … Continue reading
Rose hip tea
So. Those are the rose hips from the other day. Most ended up in my freezer with the hops from the same Buffalo backyard, waiting until I feel like making jam with them, but I used a few to make … Continue reading
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Tomato Jamstory
The story of this tomato jam will be short today. In a last-ditch attempt to rest this wrist situation (hard to do when so much of life requires at least a small degree of use of the dominant hand) I … Continue reading
On the road again: words mostly
Yesterday J. and I briefly were in Canada – or to use our own dialect, we decided to anada. Anada is a word we came up with in the customs line to describe the process of “going to Canada.” There … Continue reading
Good drink/bad drink and the magic that is Elixir of Sage
That right there is a good drink – banana wine with a little wild blackberry juice swirled in. It turned into a great drink when I added some elixir of sage. Elixir of sage is made by steeping sage in … Continue reading
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Jam session
I learned a few things from my most recent day of jam making. First: I’m good for about one straight hour of pawing through prickly blackberry bushes. Second: waking up extra early to go berry picking before the shop opens … Continue reading
Strawberry mint jam and what to do with a small amount of gooseberries
I’ve been making jam recently. First a Barnraisers jam day in Kenmore entailed making strawberry jam two ways – a traditional cooked jam and a freezer jam (the first I’d made; it’s great mixed in with plain yogurt) – as … Continue reading
One for the weekend: Mugwort
Apparently mugwort is a very useful plant to have around; among other things, it gives you craaaazy dreams. We learned this the other day at a medicinal herbs workshop where we also learned to make a jewelweed salve for skin … Continue reading
Strawberry Jam: for real this time
I’d been waiting to make something out of The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook and once our strawberries started producing, the game was on. After a week of saving them up in the fridge, we’d gathered enough for a 2/3 recipe … Continue reading
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Tagged also known as "yard jelly", becoming a well-rounded 19th century housewife, being unable to consider myself an adult, deciding to start epic projects late at night, good things come in glass bottles, i'm not internationally know but i'm known to rock a muumuu, jelly and jam, preserving and canning, pretending to be grown up, strawberry jam
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One for the weekend: the perfect snack
So I bake with Fancy & Delicious now – more on that later! We were up all night Friday baking bread to sell at the farmer’s market, and after coming home and sleeping till 2pm I harvested the rest of … Continue reading
