Food, Fozzie and Fests!

Fantastic day at our farmshare yesterday! We belong to Natural Roots. Yesterday they had an abundance of large zucchini, squash and salad turnips. I am working on pickling the turnips (never done that or canned before) and gonna make some nice zucchini bread on Thursday.

There was also tons of pick your own green beans (I ate too many on the drive home), raspberries, herbs, greens, squash, beets and crazy tasty carrots! My fridge is bursting!

Looking forward to the Green River Festival this weekend with some visiting friends that I don't get to see enough of. Including this handsome devil!

I keep thinking about what fun things I can feed my guests but forgetting that we will be at the fest pretty much 12 til 9 on Sat and 11-6 on Sun. Maybe I can bring food in?

Hmmm ...
Zucchini bread - check
Pickled beets - check

Guess I gotta get thinking.

On another note - Babies - they are popping out everywhere! Watch out cause your liable to get thwapped in the head with one. Don't forget to duck! I know 3 that have popped since Friday and at least 2 more are expected. I'm starting to think this might be some sort of alien invasion.

Ugh ,went to look for some sort of image or funny alien baby thing - don't do that. There is some really disturbing stuff out there. Yuck - wish I could unsee that.

Happy it is raining - my garden needs it badly! I found some of my drought tolerant plants were looking a little dead.

Nina Simone before bed

I got life

Mmm Licorice tea!

I brewed up some licorice root tea last night thinking it would be good to make iced for today. Um yeah it was great! Incredibly sweet. Almost too sweet and I thought I had brewed it way to weak.

Dropped some lavender in it. God I do love lavender. Thinking it would be nice too as the sweet factor for some lemon or limeade (the licorice tea that is).

In my research on the raw diet I have learned that chocolate is a big plus. Yay! Recently I have tried some wonderful chocolates. I think my favorite has to be the salt and cracked pepper chocolate by Salazon Chocolate. Its startlingly good.

Tried a  "raw french fries" recipe.Don't know if I would consider it a success. Hard to guess when you don't know what its supposed to taste like. it was definitely yummy - but very messy. I got the recipe here. Lucky for me one of the guys who works in produce at the co-op grows lovely kohlrabi.

I love discovering new foods and I had never heard of kohlrabi before - it is very tasty. Kind of like the core of broccoli stalks (my favorite part).

Unfortunately the recipe also called for curcumin. I have never heard or this before so I didn't have any available. Instead I used some sage, cumin and something in a baggie in the seasoning drawer that smelled pretty good.

Lets see if I can keep this up

Been meaning to start a blog for a while - mainly as a way to keep track of the random things I think about meaning to do.

Today I am thinking about starting a raw diet (or at least adding raw to my current repertoire), redesigning the bedroom closet (cool thingy on easyclosets.com), Ordering curtain fabric for the bedroom (sewmamasew.com), scheduling Drs appts (ugh), trying to play the uke (again), starting my new dayplanner, and making chinese tea eggs! Mmm Yummy!

My thoughts for why to start this blog are that it will probably end up being a lot about food. Some about struggling with my weight and trying to make changes in my sedentary, lazy ass lifestyle. Some about living in the country and working in a co-op in a "city in transition". There will probably be some observations about the weird ass people I interact with regularly. Perhaps some thoughts on relationships, sex and peoples.

I am getting ready to start grad school. Just moved in with the BF about 5 months ago. Just turned 34. Constantly reminded that there is apparently some kind of biological clock I am supposed to be paying attention to.

Jack Lalanne juicers cannot handle grass. Though what was produced was fairly good. Ate that and some carrots fresh from the garden and raspberries from the yard. The went on a little bender with a half a roastbeef sandwich, some hummus on olive loaf and a tea egg. Could've been worse - I haven't touched the chocolate or ice cream (yet). Why are these things in the house anyway?