What’d You Do Last Weekend?

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Herbed Vinegars

Herbed Vinegar Ingredients

Our garden is a very happy place for cooking herbs - at least the damp winter-hearty ones like thyme and sorrel. It's usually too damp and cool in our little patch for warm weather herbs. It's like they don't drain enough or ever get warm enough to grow. This summer we planted basil in our new greenhouse - and now we have more than we can eat. The same holds true for purple shiso, which we bought as a young plant at our local farmer's market.


Pickling Day!

Garden Harvest

Before leaving town for the weekend, I needed to put up some of our garden's goods. This year has been pretty fruitful in our backyard, and there were pickles and beans ready to can and more zucchini ready to dry.


Pickled Carrots and Raisins

Pickled Carrots and Raisins

Todd's been enjoying the pickles from the Boat Street Cafe, especially their carrots and raisins (I had a pickled fiddlehead at a dinner there recently - it was lovely). We knew we wanted to make our own pickled carrots, but we have such lousy luck in the garden with carrots. Not enough heat, hungry critters, you name it. But this weekend we got lucky. We took a stroll through the U-District Farmers' Market and came upon some real beauties that immediately made it into the pickle jar.


McCabe's Chicken on a Sunny Saturday

Split McCabe on the Grill

After finishing the outside electrical and weeding the parking strip last night, we were all ready for a little garden clean-up this morning.


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