September is always a busy time for me in the garden and in the kitchen, as I imagine it is for most vegetable gardeners in our Northern-ish climate. Perhaps some folks are able harvest and preserve stuff more regularly throughout the growing season, but I always seem to get behind. And with the book requiring […]
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Vegetable Triage
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What I did this Summer
This summer has a been a busy one for sure….short on hiking and gardening and swimming and many of our other beloved summer pursuits, unfortunately, but at the same time very rewarding and exciting. Since April I’ve been working on a canning and preserving cookbook, and the summer was particularly intense with writing, developing recipes, […]
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Getting Ready for the Garden
This will be our first growing season at our new place, and we finally, for the first time in many years, have a big, full-sun spot for our garden. This has been a long time coming…..to say that we are excited would be, well, putting it mildly. I spent many hours during the cold months […]
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Clearing and Pruning
Yes, that is indeed snow on the ground…it seems like an appropriate time to tell you all about our winter activities, now that it’s almost full-on gardening season, right? Well, if nothing else, it seems to be the way things have been going around here these days–on the blog and in our lives–as we try […]
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Sweet Days of March
I know…. it’s a bit out of season to be talking about maple syrup in late April, with the buds coming out on the trees and all…..but somehow the month of March seemed to slip away from me this year. Still, we spent so much of that month boiling down sap and making maple syrup […]
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Orange Marmalade on 207!
I meant to post this last week, but it seems time has been scarce around here! In any case, a couple of weeks ago I was in the 207 kitchen again–this time making orange marmalade……here’s the spot, in case you missed it! Video copyright WCSH 6, Portland, Maine Tweet Share on Tumblr
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Tapping Time
Back in mid-February, when we had a brief thaw and it felt a bit spring-like, we tapped the first of our maple trees. We are still getting the lay of the land here–discovering new things about the place as we go, and it proved to be an exiting challenge trying to recognize which trees are […]
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Everyday Apple-Carrot Muffins
I love muffins. Connor and Ian love them just as much–probably more, even. I’m pretty sure this has something to do with the fact that these breakfast treats are suspiciously similar to that ever-popular dessert of a comparable shape and size…..yes, I’m talking about the cupcake. It seems to me that the average muffin and […]
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Faith in Old Apple Trees
Ok, I’ll just say it. Ben and I and the boys have fallen totally in love with our new place. The house is great, but it’s the land itself more than anything, really. We love the way it feels–to walk on it, to work on it, to play on it….to just to be on it. […]
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Cranberry-Ginger Chutney on 207
Back in early December I was on WSCH 6 in the 207 kitchen again–this time making one of my favorite holiday items–Cranberry-Ginger chutney. We had it on the table for both Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, as well as many other meals in between. I meant to post the video a while ago, but, […]
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