The book is filled with recipes on how to make fermented foods, from scratch, no cheating, no grocery store tricks just good old fashioned food preparation. It’s a slew of work I’m not going to lie but having mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup in my refrigerator that I made myself feels pretty darn good. My kids are happy too because they like ketchup and mustard and mayonnaise prior to now we just went without.
That’s kind of how I roll. If I can’t grow it, make it, or get it local we do without. I wish it was contagious.
My birthday was on Tuesday. Happy Birthday to me. I turned 29. This week has been extraordinarily fantastic. Which I hope is an indication of the rest of my year/life yet to come.
Last Friday I took off to Vancouver to meet up with my sister for a Folk Festival. We don’t get to hang out a lot so it was pretty nice to chill with one of the coolest chicks I know. I rode my single gear bike around a huge city, which was an experience I don’t really advise anyone to repeat.
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I don’t normally can in July or August. It’s just too darn hot to have the stove on that much. Most of my summer preserving is done with the dehydrator on a table outside. One day I will find a man handy enough and who loves me enough to build me a solar dehydrator but until that day I use the electric variety.
However this year has been unseasonably – um – damp, which would make solar dehydration a little bit tricky. A conversation with a friend revealed the fact that I have never had canned cherries. Read the rest of this entry »
When the warm weather rolls around I tend to leave behind my heavy winter reading and take up some ‘lighter’ material. I toss a book in with the picnic basket and catch a couple chapters here and there while the kids play on the beach or at the park. It’s too hard to read non-fiction in fits and spurts like these and so here is the start of my summer reading material…
Tags: books, hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, summer reading, tom robbins, villa incognito
Bruce Mol is a friend of a friend and I was introduced to his inspiring project the other day. Last year at the Armstrong IPE they introduced a bokashi pilot program of sorts where they collected the food waster from the fair over 5 days in 45 gallon barrels. All in all they collected 1 ton of organic waste that they then shredded, added bokashi mixture, sealed and let ferment for three weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bokashi project, Community, compost, contest
My kids are getting older and while they aren’t exactly staying out all hours of the night or anything they can do a lot of things for themselves. One of the things my son in particular likes to do is play music. He frequently pops in a ‘Little People’ CD and cranks it. Which after one too many renditions of ‘Wheels on the Bus’ got me to thinking he needed some new material. Enter the cassette tape. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cassette tape, classic rock, kids, tape
Krystal Williams
Beautiful B.C.
Day Dreamer & Margin Doodler
