Sometime after Thanksgiving Ken spends some time in the kitchen. He likes to make some seasonal and not so seasonal treats. When I was organizing the freezers before I picked up the pork, I found some frozen cranberries. We also had some cream cheese so Ken made a cranberry swirl cheesecake. Did I mention he made the graham crackers for the crust? Once the lard was rendered and we had cracklings (bits of fat …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has winter tomatoes, potatoes, onions, garlic, squash, sweet potatoes, carrots or beets, cabbage, and salad mix Field Notes. Snow and cold. It feels like winter has arrived in earnest. And we are so glad to see the snow. It insulates the ground so the frost doesn’t go down so deep so quickly and preserves the microbial life near the top – otherwise the microbes die or go …
Ken built himself a shelf for all his pottery tools. He has several odd pieces he uses to make textured pots, and sling like trays for creating trays like the botanical imprints. He has been using a shelving unit and counter we bought decades ago when a store closed. It worked, but this shelf will work better for Ken. And he plans to move the old unit to his wood …
