Eighth of an Acre Bounty

I finally sat down today to go through the various seed catalogs I’ve been bookmarking for the past month and put together a seed order for the coming year. I am still searching for a source for Ozette Fingerling seed potatoes, if anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it! […]

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Our featured dinner for the dark days challenge this week was actually our Christmas Dinner. A smaller than average group around for Christmas gave me the opportunity to host at our house this year (tiny house). The Menu? Roasted Leg of Lamb with Fennel Butter and Red Wine Sauce Glazed Baby Carrots and Parsnips Sauteed […]

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The snow is still falling here. I’ll pull my boots on soon enough to go check on the girls and maybe snap a picture or two. Our meals have trended toward the comfort food variety with the brisk weather outside, featured this week is the lazy womans version of enchiladas. A few nights ago I […]

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Check out this opinion piece in the NY Times. I’m posting this bit late as the president elect has already selected a middle of the road candidate who doesn’t seem to show much promise – but I suppose we can hope…

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In an earlier post I mentioned that if it was going to be this cold here, it would be nice to have some real snow to accompany it. Well, it came! A day later than the forecast, but here on Thursday evening I am comfortably snuggled in front of the computer, a jelly jar of […]

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How could you turn away from those faces just wanting a scruff? I mentioned in a previous post that we headed down south to farmsit for the weekend for a friend who is currently in Kenya. A stormfront blew in on Friday night and rewarded us with increasing snow flurries on our way down. We […]

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Whole Wheat Smoked Eggplant Ravioli with Crispy Jerusalem Artichokes Apologies in advance for the horrible, overexposed picture. We haven’t quite worked out sufficient lighting in the kitchen yet. But truth be told, this meal just ain’t that pretty even in the best of light. But what it lacks in appearance, it makes up for in […]

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These two have managed it – but it seems I have little to share lately. I’ve been doing a lot of mental processing and spinning for the coming year and it seems about all I can do to get my Dark Days posts up on time, much less anything else. I’ve been reading garden porn […]

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We are still working off the Thanksgiving Turkey round here. Many of our meals for the week have incorporated it in some fashion – but this soup, which I’ve made variations on before, always hits the spot. I had two big bunches of collards hanging out in the crisper from the West Seattle Farmers market […]

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