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scratch: Apple Juice
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Monday, October 12, 2009. Jim's folks have owned an apple juice press for a lot of years. When our kids were little, we juiced nearly every year but the press has been idle for quite awhile now. This fall when we asked around if anyone wanted 'in' on juicing, we got some takers. Apple pulp comes out the bottom. See all the boxes of apples in the back of the truck awaiting their turn! Want to see the full scale? Yes, the gang filled all three of those garbage cans (kept only for this purpose! With fresh p...
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scratch: August 2009
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Saturday, August 29, 2009. This means that Lew fired up the leaf blower, tipped each super, and blasted the bees out of it. They weren't very happy, but they did as they were told. We removed the ones with honey and got down to the supers with brood (home of the next generation of bees). These we left, of course! Jim loaded the supers with honey onto the back of Lew's truck for the trip to his extracting shed. And here's the truck loaded with our empty supers (ready to be stored until next June) and the ...
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scratch: Honey Extraction Day
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Saturday, August 29, 2009. This means that Lew fired up the leaf blower, tipped each super, and blasted the bees out of it. They weren't very happy, but they did as they were told. We removed the ones with honey and got down to the supers with brood (home of the next generation of bees). These we left, of course! Jim loaded the supers with honey onto the back of Lew's truck for the trip to his extracting shed. And here's the truck loaded with our empty supers (ready to be stored until next June) and the ...
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scratch: Roasted Tomato Sauce
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Friday, August 28, 2009. This is a very versatile sauce that I use in soups, pastas, or as a pizza base. I make mega-batches this time of year when roma tomatoes are ripe. I have 2 large broiler pans that came with my gas range, and alternate them through the oven- when it's really hot I do the roasting in my barbecue! For each broiler pan, I use about:. 15 ripe roma tomatoes (more if they're small! Washed, cut in half. 1/2 a large onion, chunked. 5 cloves of garlic, peeled. A good drizzle of olive oil.
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scratch: June 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009. First Meal from the Garden :). We may have been on vacation, but the garden was busy growing (so were the weeds! And tonight we had our first fresh produce of the season. What was ready first? Well, the salad greens might've been ready, but they didn't come in tonight. Instead, we went for swiss chard and kohlrabi to enjoy with a pork steak. I trimmed off the kohlrabi leaves off over the compost pile. Just to show you how much the swiss chard wilts while cooking. Links to this post.
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scratch: September 2009
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Saturday, September 12, 2009. Although raspberry vinaigrette is all the rage these days, not a lot of people are familiar with the cool refreshing drink that is Raspberry Vinegar. This is something Jim's mom has made for years- and so have I. Our kids' friends refused to try it when they were young. They didn't want to drink vinegar! But when we called it Raspberry Punch, everyone loved it. Came home for a week of canning. How much does it make? Each gallon bucket (ice cream bucket) of berries makes abou...
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scratch: Ratatouille!
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009. No, not the movie. Though that was fun, wasn't it? Made mega batches of ratatouille last fall and froze them in ziploc bags. Her method (in winter) is to let a package thaw a bit, empty it into a casserole dish, add a couple of sausages (Mennonite farmer is good, or Italian), and put it in the oven for half an hour. Here's the basic ingredient list:. Cook for about 20 minutes until nice and saucey. Cool, then freeze. Here's what it looks like while cooking down:. What camping ...
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scratch: April 2009
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Sunday, April 26, 2009. While Jim was at the beekeeping course in a nearby town, I spent the day with my niece, Barbara. She'd invited me to teach her how to pressure can the chicken soup she's been making from the Coop to Soup. Day a couple of weeks ago. I'd taken my camera, intending to write a How To. On canning with a pressure canner. Instead, the main focus will be about pressure canners themselves and what to look for if you're thinking of purchasing one. Is not the same thing as a pressure canner.
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scratch: October 2009
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Monday, October 12, 2009. Jim's folks have owned an apple juice press for a lot of years. When our kids were little, we juiced nearly every year but the press has been idle for quite awhile now. This fall when we asked around if anyone wanted 'in' on juicing, we got some takers. Apple pulp comes out the bottom. See all the boxes of apples in the back of the truck awaiting their turn! Want to see the full scale? Yes, the gang filled all three of those garbage cans (kept only for this purpose! With fresh p...
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scratch: Honey!
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Saturday, August 1, 2009. This morning our beekeeping mentor, Lew, stopped by to visit 'his' bees. (The guy that never wears a bee suit! He says they're doing really well! He put his finger into one of the combs and let some liquid honey drip onto my finger. Oh. My. Word! Have you ever had honey THAT fresh? Delightful. Warm from the sun, gentle sweetness. Oh, wow. I can hardly wait to extract some of it and start using our very own honey! Here Jim and Lew are looking over the supers already in place.
