Keeping track of what’s coming in!
I got to pick up my friend Christopher! from the Boys and Girls Club today. We took a short cut, walking on the railroad tracks, and then he hung out with me for a little while at home where he borrowed AC’s board and helmet. He said he likes skateboarding because you don’t need to use your hands. You know, because it’s really important to be able to partake in a sport while eating ice cream. (June 30, here.)
This flower reminds me of sherbert. Or maybe even more of sherbert punch. In any case, it’s pretty and soft and not mine. My neighbor recently planted several container gardens on our shared steps, this one is my favorite so far. (June 29, here.)
I finally remembered to buy some walnut oil so that I could try out this recipe for hakurei turnips Nicole’s been raving about since last fall. And I’m so glad I did — they were fantastic!
One Local Summer, meal four: cucumber, barbecue tofu, hakurei and chard, applesauce
Baked tofu (Fresh Tofu - 25 miles) is slathered in barbecue sauce and heated in a grill press. Nonlocal ingredients used: barbecue sauce. Hakurei turnips and Swiss chard are cooked with spring onion, garlic scapes, (all from Blooming Glen Farm CSA crop share - 5 miles) walnut oil and salt and pepper. Nonlocal ingredients used: walnut oil, salt, pepper. Fresh cucumbers on the side serve as a refresher (also from Blooming Glen) and homemade applesauce is dessert (my pantry - 0 miles/originally from DelVal College - 12 miles). We also enjoyed a bottle of Proprietors Reserve red wine (Chaddsford Winery - 48 miles).
This week’s meal featured six simple local ingredients: turnips, cucumber, garlic scapes, tofu, spring onion, Swiss chard.
Nicole’s recipe calls for garlic and red onion, neither of which are in season, so I substituted the garlic for garlic scapes and the red onion for yummy spring onions. I had planned on using the turnip greens, which I separated from the turnip bulbs before refrigerating, but they had yellowed a bit by the time I got around to using them. Instead, I composted the greens and used Swiss Chard. Too bad, because this would have brought my ingredient list down to five! Thankfully, all the substitutions worked out and this portion was definitely the star of the meal.
What a freaking BUM. (June 28, here.)
AC and I had to drive to Easton to meet with a homeschool portfolio evaluator today. The real reason why I chose this evaluator, located about an hour away from our house? Her proximity to Vegan Treats. Uuuhhn…! AC and I each enjoyed a passion fruit soft serve while we were there, then came home with a mango cheese cake (his choice), a death by chocolate cake (for Rodney and LeAnne) and a lemon pineapple cake (Jase’s favorite). This is the best Happy Friday EVER. (June 27, here.)
I saw this car while walking to my mom’s house tonight. When I saw it, I immediately thought of that scene in Clueless when Christian asks Cher if the leather jacket he picked out at the mall was “James Dean or Jason Priestly.” “Carpe Diem, ok? You looked HOT in it!”
One of Avery’s very first homeschool projects turned out to be raising tadpoles into frogs. At the end of April, he went to a friend of a friend’s, who has a pond, that had tadpoles. Naturally, several little black tadpoles came home with him that night in a mason jar of pond water. We’ve been chronicling their lives; AC feeding them, cleaning the tank, writing a little blurb about their changes and growth each week, and I taking photos for him. We released them, in frog form, to a local pond on June 13, and this week, he put together a Power Point presentation for his portfolio. Best. Science. Class. Ever. (June 25, set here.)
> Cross-posted at www.farmtophilly.com.
School’s out, summer’s here, and I couldn’t be happier than I am now, celebrating with CARROTS!
We went for a walk and were almost home when Cinder’s eye caught this cat and she charged it. The cat’s response? To rub itself on Cinder’s face. (June 24, set here.)
My recent Saturday morning flowers include day lilies and daisies from a traffic island, purple sage came from an appliance store’s GIGANTIC corner garden and tiger lilies from a neighbor’s garden. (June 23, set here.)
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