The Daily Harvest

Daily Harvest

2010-12-07T17:08:00.000-08:00

Daily Dinner

2010-11-21T13:51:00.000-08:00

It's winter!

Daily Bread

2010-11-20T14:00:00.000-08:00

Whole wheat french bread

Daily Dinner

2010-11-18T14:07:00.000-08:00

Daily Harvest

2010-11-18T14:04:00.000-08:00

Daily Harvest

2010-11-14T14:26:00.000-08:00

Planting

2010-10-17T19:01:00.000-07:00

We're a bit late planting for fall this year. On a small plot, we did get some beets, onions, arugula, and lettuce started in mid summer and that's going strong. Just now we planted a lot more new stuff: peas, lettuce, , fava beans, and mustard, I still want to do more arugula, swiss chard, broccoli, more beets.... I've got some horse poo from the stables, so I just need to spend some time ripping out old summer plants and prepping the beds. I hope I can make it happen before it is too cold and dark.

Daily Breakfast

2010-10-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

Smoked salmon and green onion omelette, with last year's guacamole, plus fruit, fried plantains, and a cozy rainy day.

Daily Harvest

2010-10-17T14:08:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest and Daily Dinner

2010-10-16T08:43:00.000-07:00

This is an unflattering photo of last night's dinner, which was inspired by today's harvest, and was amazing.

Jonathan made meatballs with the last of the bartered venison, which he served over wild rice, and this was all made so that we could better enjoy green tomato chutney. Really I could just eat green tomato chutney straight. And we are still getting cucumbers, although they are definatley winding down. Tahini dressing with preserved lemons.

Here is today's harvest. These are the green tomatoes that inspired Jonathan to make chutney.

We have been letting all of the green beans that aren't Noreasters dry to shelling beans, and yesterday, right before the rain started, Jonathan harvested them all. We have about 4 pounds in the shells.

Growing drying and shelling beans is a lovely activity and it always makes me think about how can it be possible that dry beans are one of the cheapest foods you can buy? How is this done?

Last spring we planted so many Noreasters. I can never normally get enough of them. We staggered out plantings so that we could have them through out the late summer into the fall. I tended them all summer with feelings of anticipation. I imagined canning dilly beans with friends, eating them every night, steamed, sauteed, in eggs in the morning. Then just as they were ripening I got pregnant. The first time Jonathan cooked them I realized something was wrong, but tried to be polite. But the initial distaste turned into full on revulsion. The smell, the taste, and now the sight of them make me so nausous. I waited so long for this season, and now this!

Jonathan has been trying to harvest them and blanche them and freeze them when I'm out of the house. Yesterday he did it while I was gone, poured out the blanching water, washed the pot, opened the windows, turned on the fan and had all of the beans in the freezer by the time I came home. The second thing out of my mouth upon entering that house was "what is that terrible smell?"

Hopefully in a couple of months we can enjoy them out of the freezer and the jars... I'm told this doesn't last forever.

Daily Dinner

2010-10-14T14:17:00.000-07:00

Salmon croquettes with diced beet greens & thyme.

Roasted beets and potatoes.

Daily Harvest

2010-10-14T13:24:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-10-13T17:45:00.000-07:00

Kate made these beautiful bowls! Thai coconut curry with basil and winter squash from the garden.

-Jonathan

Daily Dinner

2010-10-09T17:49:00.000-07:00

Creamy squash soup with sage, homemade bread, arugula + lettuce salad with pears and pomagranite, collards with venison shot by Bob. Fall!

Daily Harvest

2010-10-02T18:33:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-10-02T18:13:00.000-07:00

Daily Snack

2010-10-01T18:40:00.000-07:00

Homemade bread and marmalade.

Daily Harvest

2010-09-30T16:41:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-09-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

Noodles! Basil and fresh tomatoes.

With figs and goat cheese on the side.

Backyard Birds

2010-09-18T19:11:00.000-07:00

A wild turkey visited our backyard!! It made the chickens spazz out and make crazy noises, especially when the turkey got close to the coop.

Daily Harvest

2010-09-16T09:10:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-09-04T10:58:00.000-07:00

So many bumpy squash!

So much produce!

Daily Lunch

2010-09-04T10:52:00.000-07:00

My current favorite meal!

Poached egg on cheese toast with roasted tomato sauce and arugula.

And look at the tiny mellon! It's been too cold for our melons this summer, but we did get a couple.

For the bay area climate we have had some success with the Minnesota Midget Melon, which was introduced to us by our friend Noah.

Daily Canning

2010-09-04T10:43:00.000-07:00

Pickle relish!

We have so many cucumbers this summer!

They didn't mind the cold summer.

Now how are we going to eat so much relish? We are going to have to start eating hot dogs and hamburgers, I guess.

Daily Harvest

2010-09-03T11:05:00.000-07:00

Some tomatoes have ripened despite the cold summer. We are roasting them and making sauce, but won't have sauce to last us all year, like we did last year.

Daily Harvest

2010-09-03T10:49:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-09-02T11:23:00.000-07:00

Daily Caning

2010-09-02T11:14:00.000-07:00

Dilly Beans! Dilly Beans!

Same recipe as last year, hopefully these will be equally delicious!

These are our favorite kind of green beans: Nor'easers, originally the seeds were a gift from Rosalie's mom, Nora, and we love them so much we save the seeds every year.

If you need some seeds in the spring, ask us!

Daily Snack

2010-08-31T13:45:00.000-07:00

gazpacho!

Daily Harvest

2010-08-31T11:21:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-08-25T12:38:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-08-24T12:56:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-08-24T12:46:00.001-07:00

The first tomato sauce of the summer!

Tall Brian and I ate this with fresh noodles & Groveland beef meatballs, green beans sizzled with garlic, and cucumber gazpacho. then he kicked my ass in the game of go.

Daily Harvest

2010-08-21T16:38:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-08-20T16:57:00.000-07:00

Daily Snack

2010-08-19T16:59:00.000-07:00

hummus, grapes, cucs

Daily Harvest

2010-08-19T11:29:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-08-18T13:04:00.000-07:00

Gazpacho & garden veggie calzone.

Gazpacho recipe:

mostly cucumbers

water

a few tomatoes

shiso

lemon verbena

chipotle

vinegar

salt

Calzone recipe:

pizza dough (sour starter, white/whole wheat/rye flours, water, yeast, salt, olive oil)

saute: summer squash, tomato, rosemary, oregano, thyme, garlic, salt, dried chile

hard cheese

Daily Harvest

2010-08-18T00:20:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-08-14T13:28:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-08-13T13:39:00.000-07:00

14 pounds of produce!

Daily Dinner

2010-08-13T13:33:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-08-10T13:56:00.000-07:00

Daily Canning

2010-08-09T19:11:00.000-07:00

Daily Canning

2010-08-09T14:04:00.000-07:00

I just tried the first jar of these pickles, and they are delicious! So here is the recipe!

Sweet Pickles!

Ingredients:

lemon cucumbers

onions

red pepper

vinegar

water

mustard seed

celery seed

turmeric

garlic cloves

grape leaves

First combine:

cucumbers sliced thin

half the quantity of cucumbers in thinly sliced onions.

a couple of red peppers, as many as you want to add color.

Mix cucumbers, onions, and peppers in a bowl with salt. Let stand for 2 hours. Drain.

Brine:

Combine vinegar and water and sugar in these proportions:

2 vinegar 2 water 1.5 sugar

Add mustard seed and celery seed in equal proportions and half as much tumeric

Bring to a boil.

Processing:

In the hot sterilized jars add two garlic cloves, one grape leaf, pack full of cucumber/onion/pepper mix, fill with the boiling vinegar mixture, leaving 1/4 inch head room, then put in a canning bath for ten minutes.

These are SO GOOD. These should become a yearly standard.

Daily Harvest

2010-08-03T09:05:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-08-02T09:07:00.000-07:00

basil tomato pizza

Daily Harvest

2010-07-31T14:40:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-07-30T15:19:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-07-29T15:24:00.000-07:00

Daily Canning

2010-07-21T07:48:00.000-07:00

Spices ready to go.

Jonathan starts packing the jars.

Cucumbers ready to go!

This year we are growing a new variety: Indian brown. They can get really bitter, so I tasted them and peeled the ones that needed it.

We are still growing Lemon cucumbers which never seem to need to be peeled.

Finished pickles!

Spicy Dill Pickles

Brine:

2/3 c. salt

12 c. water

4 c. white vinegar

Flavorings:

1/2 teaspoon mustard seed

1 dried hot pepper cut in half

2 cloves of garlic each cut in half

1 sprig dill

sprinkle of cut up dill stems and leaves

Canning time used: 15 minutes

Daily Harvest

2010-07-18T08:40:00.000-07:00

This is the Dada Movement's first egg!

Look at how tiny it is next to the other egg we got today from one of the older hens.

Daily Harvest

2010-07-17T13:21:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-07-15T13:14:00.000-07:00

Here is the aftermath of the Vietnamese sandwiches.

We piled them with herbs from the garden: shiso, basil, mint and oregano. Jonathan sauteed summer squash, we opened a jar of pickles from last summer, and we had baked tofu slices along with a lovely sauce which all went on the sandwiches as well.

We ate them with our friends Tara and John. Jonathan gave Tara a copy of the book that he had written about her!

Daily Bread

2010-07-15T13:09:00.000-07:00

Jonathan has been experimenting with a new recipe for bread.

This loaf was delicious with such a crunchy crust and big open air holes.

He learned to do this new style by watching Artisan Breads DVD from King Arthur Flour company.

It is a much wetter dough and a new kneading style.

We used this amazing bread to make Vietnamese sandwiches.

Daily Harvest

2010-07-14T13:04:00.000-07:00

Ana apples ripen so early! They are so huge and delicious!

Daily Harvest

2010-07-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

Planting

2010-07-11T16:55:00.001-07:00

Today I planted:
12 red lettuce starts
1 thai hot pepper start (we'll see if it's too late in the season for this)

A couple of days ago, we planted:
more onion seeds to fill in where there were gaps where we'd planted onions earlier
chive seeds
salad mix

Daily Harvest Daily Dinner

2010-07-11T12:53:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-07-10T16:51:00.000-07:00

We finally got some beets to grow!! On our previous attempts the leaves would get a few inches big then shrivel up and turn yellow and stop growing. These are doing well (knock on wood) enough that we had to thin them. Yum.

Daily Dinner

2010-07-09T16:46:00.000-07:00

Fresh noodles with early summer goodness.

Daily Harvest

2010-07-07T16:39:00.000-07:00

The damn squirrel took one bite out of each unripe plum and tossed them on the ground. Rrrrrrrrr.

Daily Harvest

2010-07-06T16:33:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-07-04T15:44:00.000-07:00

We came back from two weeks away and we found...

Garden gone wild! Zucchini the size of my thigh!

Over a dozen eggs!

Our house sitter watered everything and fed the chickens but doesn't appear to have eaten much.

Daily Bread

2010-07-01T09:20:00.000-07:00

Sandwich bread made in wood-fired oven up in Canada.

Daily Dinner

2010-06-27T09:31:00.000-07:00

From our trip to Canada: oysters and clams from the beach, homemade noodles.

Daily Bread

2010-06-23T09:29:00.000-07:00

Kind of failed at my second attempt at french bread. I tried to use just some of the sponge from the previous day's bread as leavening, and I should have also added some new yeast. It had a good sour taste but was pretty dense and flat. It looks pretty good from the top- you can't tell how short the loaves are! Ha!

Daily Bread

2010-06-22T09:25:00.000-07:00

My first french bread! Made in a wood-fired oven up in canada. The crust cracked loudly when we pulled it out of the oven. Yeah!

Daily Harvest

2010-06-18T09:15:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-06-17T17:15:00.000-07:00

Daily Cheese

2010-06-17T09:39:00.000-07:00

Kate took a cheese-making class with her mom and sisters. Here is what you can make with one quart of goat milk: chevre cheese (on left) ricotta cheese (on right) and a lot of whey.

Daily Harvest

2010-06-15T09:43:00.000-07:00

basil, mint, oregano, thyme, taragon

Daily Dinner

2010-06-15T09:40:00.000-07:00

The last can of sauce from last summer. Grow, tomatoes, grow!

Daily Harvest

2010-06-14T11:18:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-06-14T11:13:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-06-13T15:48:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-06-08T15:58:00.000-07:00

These potatoes threw themselves out of the ground! They were just kind of bubbled up next to a little potato plant volunteer. And on just the day I was planning to make soup.

Daily Harvest

2010-06-07T16:01:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-06-06T19:05:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-06-05T19:58:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-06-03T17:26:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-06-01T19:41:00.000-07:00

rye bread

pickled beans from summer

sweet pickles (cucumber) from summer

lettuce

mint

oregano

roasted garlic

homemade hummus

Daily Bread

2010-06-01T18:39:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-05-31T18:44:00.000-07:00

We took dinner to neighbors Carlos, Duffy, and Maya and their brand new baby Camila. This salad with borage flowers, hard-boiled eggs, lettuce, etc... + cornbread, artichokes, and lentils. Feed the hardworking parents!

Daily Harvest

2010-05-31T17:48:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-05-30T13:52:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-05-30T12:54:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-05-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

Homemade pizza! Tomato sauce from summer, fresh oregano, thyme, and rosemary. (Plus artichoke hearts, dried tomatoes, and olives from the store)

Daily Harvest

2010-05-28T07:56:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-05-27T07:59:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-05-26T21:44:00.000-07:00

When we cover our lettuce plants, the chickens and the california towees don't destroy the plants! Learning!

2010-05-26T08:04:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-05-25T21:55:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-05-25T21:53:00.000-07:00

We love Joey and dinner.

Artichokes, fresh noodles thanks to eggs from the lulus, tomato sauce from this summer, fava beans and garlic.

Daily Bread

2010-05-23T22:04:00.000-07:00

Six strand braiding. Thank you intergoogle for teaching us how.

Daily Lunch

2010-05-23T07:58:00.000-07:00

Salad with Kate's family- Sue, Paul, and Laura. The flowers are borage, sage, and lavender.

Daily Harvest

2010-05-23T07:00:00.000-07:00

Daily Dinner

2010-05-22T22:08:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-05-22T21:12:00.000-07:00

Daily Harvest

2010-05-21T08:02:00.000-07:00