No photos, because I can't find the camera.  Er.. I think I'm worse than the children for misplacing things. 

What a plentiful harvest!  We've been so blessed.  This week: fingerling potatoes, red onions, garlic, turnips, broccoli, cauliflower, yellow crookneck squash, zuchini, cue ball squash (looks like... a cue ball, tastes like zuchini), lettuce, honey and apricots.  Mmmm. 

Local pizza: we sauteed some local Italian sausage and then sauteed the onions and garlic together in the same pan (while the sausage dried off), and then sauteed some yellow squash as well.  I chopped some of the oregano and basil I had frozen in bags, and sprinkled it all over the pizza crust.  Now I just need to start making mozerrella!

On the local note, it seems that the mill I was eyeing from which to purchase flour is out of business.  So still no local source of flour, though fields all around us are growing wheat.  The local oats I found aren't cleaned.  What does that mean exactly?  I'm not sure.  How does one clean oats?  Dunno.  It's all a process... and I'm still in the beginning stages.  But I'm learning.

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Posted by henspace

Oh, sounds like heaven!

Last night I sauteed zucchini, yellow squash, red pepper and green onions with butter, salt, pepper and seasoning salt--and my kids all loved it.

Everything was just from the local grocery store...but young and small and tender.

Reminds me of my dad's story of entering yellow squash in the county fair--on the day to take your entry in, he had nothing on the vine that looked good. He entered one he had pulled off a few days earlier and discarded because it was much bigger and tougher than we like to eat them--and it won!

;)

Praying for your incubating idea right now...

Jeanne

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Posted by Betsy Schelp

Making cheese is a lot of fun. It is, however, an all day project to get it started, followed by several days/weeks/months of aging. But I'm sure you could make mozzarella. Rich and I made a bunch of cheeses including cheddar, and gouda and they all were quite delicious. I was amazed we could make such good cheese. I do admit this was before children, and I also suggest starting out with an easy soft cheese like Ricotta. But making cheese is fun and very educational.

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