Last year, I heard about garlic scapes. What are garlic scapes? Why, they are the flowers that would form on the garlic plants, but they are removed (before they flower) so that the bulbs get larger. In previous years, I just pitched them, but I heard they are edible so …
Jacob wasn’t feeling well today so we all skipped out on church this morning and spent the day at home. I used my extra time this morning by goofing off, mostly. Though, it did enable me to start on brunch a little earlier than usual. We had Baked Eggs with …
Last night we bottled the two batches of juice that I bought from Conzatti’s. The Pinot Grigio came out sweet for some reason. It doesn’t taste bad, but it doesn’t taste like Pinot Grigio, either. The Valpolicella came out ok. I’ll know more about that once it ages for a …
As if I didn’t have enough stuff to do this weekend, we bottled two batches of wine last night. One was called “Pacific Quartet” and it was a white wine blend (on the sweeter side). I thought it was pretty good. And the other was the chocolate raspberry port. It …
The grape juice I ordered from Conzatti’s came in on Thursday, so now I have 4 batches of wine going! This is a personal record. I’m sure Brian and I will be sick of racking wine until all is said and done, but my wine racks are going to look …