We are now in my sons favorite time of year. It’s apple season here in North Eastern Maryland.This weekend we picked a total of 72.2 pounds of mixed varieties of apples from Lohr’s Orchard which meant we were busy, and yet I cannot express the joy I felt as I pulled quart jar after quart jar of preserved APPLES and not tomatoes. Honestly, I am rather sick of tomatoes. Really.
Really, I feel like that is what our garden has wanted to say to us as of recently. An Evening Visitor. Papilio polyxenes. Also called Black Swallowtail Butterfly. I feel as if the plants have been conspiring with each other, talking to one another, late at night, to try to plan some surprises for us. Winter Crookneck. One of many female flowers Marina di Chioggia And last night we just
Well, we’re almost halfway through the month of September and here’s how it goes thus far.We’ve spent $34.29 so far at traditional grocery stores like the commisary or Walmart. Now here’s the kicker. We’ve spent $135.15 on local groceries. That means at farms like Brad’s Produce, orchards like Lohrs Orchard and the farmers market at Bel Air.This past weekend we visited the farmers market because we were starting to run
Five days into our challenge now and my son is already crying because there are no snacks in the house. It didn’t help that we had a three day weekend which we spent camping and we brought most of our fresh apples and peaches. We do have two peaches left, one of which is getting kind of mushy. That one will be turned into dried peach slices tonight in our
These are super easy. Any time you have extra kale sitting around you can do this. In the past I’ve purchased kale at the grocery store or even a bagful at Brads Produce and I almost never use the entire bit in soups or what not so instead I just make kale chips! There is almost no reason to let your extra kale go to waste. Also, kale is usually
This weekend was a bit hard to gauge how we’re feeling. We went camping this weekend and while we had a strict “No buying bread, pasta, milk, cheese, etc” rule we did splurge and buy a bag or two of M&M’s or Amish Coconut Stacks. I told Edward these expenditures could be considered slightly different since we were “officially” on vacation. Normally I would classify all of this expenses under
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that you can make your own dishwashing detergent and if you are making your own liquid laundry detergent then you have almost all the ingredients on hand anyways. Once again, killing the two birds with one stone. Where I had really no definitive recipe towards the liquid laundry detergent I did use one almost exclusively for the dishwashing detergent. You can find the recipe
Okay, I normally like to give credit to certain bloggers or websites out there when I use their recipe however in this case my husband and I, once deciding to do this, read about fifteen different ones and took what we wanted or needed from each one. So here’s the recipe. Homemade Liquid Laundry Detergent 1 Fels Naptha bar, grated 1 cup Borax 1 cup Washing Soda (DO NOT USE
Okay I admit it. Dilly beans are not our favorite side dish. We eat them but not in massive quantities. My son usually wrinkles his little nose up at them and says they stink and they taste bad. So while my husband and I enjoy them, we only produce usually three to five pints a year. More or less, one time of canning them. So, I am always on the
This morning I brought in fresh Bing cherries to work that we purchased a week or so ago at our local commissary. Anyone here on the East coast knows that cherries are no longer in season here. Their time passed in June for us. As I snacked on these while I worked on reservations for passengers, processed schedule changes I was hit with the most intense uncertainty and fear
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