I’ve had several in-person interactions with people lately that have really, really sucked. One of them involved one of my oldest friends, and we have parted ways. It was a long time coming – he never respected me, not since our days together in high school. For so many years he constantly criticized me –…
Tag: summer
Six Cooling Herbal Drinks For Hot Weather
Summer has set in. The days are long and so hot the wind feels like the air from a baking oven on my face, and the grass looks like uncut hay, all shriveled and dried in the pasture. It has been days and days of dry, bright sunshine over 100 F. The ticks and yellow…
Gardens of Dreams
All around spring is flowering in the branches. The croaking of the Sandhill cranes will now and then fill the blue-clouded skies as they pass along on their long pilgrimage. From out of the earth the green force of life is brimming in a flowery haze, all things stretching forth with new, fresh growth. Except…
Callaloo Curry With Flatbread
The cold weather is here at last! Sweet-smelling woolens have been taken out of the cedar chest to air in the beautiful dry air, and we are enjoying the last of the summer garden’s offerings…. spinach-like amaranth greens. Amaranth is really more of a weed than a garden plant; indeed, the spiny, weedy amaranth torments…
Pumpkin Pie Ice Pops
The family all start groaning when the pumpkins are coming out of the garden. They claim they are still sick of pumpkin after the last season, however, I am skeptical because of how quickly these ice pops disappeared. I am harvesting quantities of pumpkins now, in huge wheelbarrow loads between rain storms. Each…
Southern Fried Okra (and Luffa Gourd)
Okra is a favorite vegetable around here, so I always try to grow it every summer. It’s not difficult to grow, but I find it to be the ninja of gardening. Everyone says okra is easy to grow, and I would agree, but no one mentions what a pain it is to harvest! If I…
All-Raw Ice Cream Season
The every day summer rains have been hard on the garden, but the pastures are lush and green. The hay season is over, and the cows knew it as they watched us in a huddle around the empty hay ring as we set up moveable electric fencing for the week’s grazing. Loud mooings, some plaintive,…
Grain-Free Early Summer Quiche With Basil And Wild Garlic
Mirin has been reading a lot of survival books to himself lately – Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain, and Julie Of the Wolves. He’s been inspired to forage in the forest and ditches. We certainly do stop to scrump wild plums, harvest wild grapes, mushrooms, betany roots, etc, but I usually draw the line…
Grain-free Cookies N’ Cream Ice Cream Cups
This is the next instalment of Frozen Summer Treat Goodness Experiments that have been going on in the kitchen lately! The cows have been eating bales of just-cut oat hay that smells like oat porridge with honey, and the cream line on the milk has been increasing – the top shelf of the fridge is…
Orange Creamsicle Icepops
Summer is starting to set in (at least here in Florida). There was a short spell of cool nights over the weekend, but being nearly mid-May, we can reasonably expect the weather to get hotter and hotter and the intense summer heat to set in. We’ll be getting out the sprinklers and water guns…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 