Author Archives: susan

With Hurricane Earl due in this weekend, and September starting tomorrow, I decided it was time to harvest some of the crops. These are cherry peppers, grown a bit beyond the neat tiny globes I expected. Jim does a great … Continue reading →

Well if the plants can hold on long enough through the tomato blight, the crop’s really starting to come in:

aka “Harvest.” I’m thrilled that my first crop of bell pepper produced enough early pickings to set up a whole dish of stuffed peppers. I don’t always make these the same. Today they’re all beef, rice–and since I only had … Continue reading →

No grapes this year, but I finally picked some grape leaves. Here, they’re stuffed with ground beef, chick peas, rice, and egg as binder, and herbs, then simmered in tomato sauce. Grapes are a phenomenal gift from nature. You can … Continue reading →

Well I learned the difference between a male squash blossom and a female blossom. The male have a stamen which is pinched off before dipping in batter and frying. Good, not outstanding. Very light and airy and I think there’s … Continue reading →

So that’s how it starts: 10 bags of manure, 6 of peat moss, a couple of lime and some seeds. I planted the garden over the Memorial Day weekend–that’s a tradition that comes from living exactly in this area for … Continue reading →

My last alone meal, salad with grilled filet mignon, sun-warmed tomatoes, eggs, fresh-killed lettuce, onions, celery, slivered broccoli stems, and blue cheese dressing. I usually do this with chicken breasts but didn’t have any in the freezer and found a … Continue reading →

Finally bottled last year’s wine, 24 bottles of grape and 24 of crabapple. I didn’t make the same mistake I made two years ago with adding the sweetener without vitamin C to stop fermentation from starting again. I’m getting a … Continue reading →