beer
Brian and I made my raspberry lambic for the 2nd time today. I would not have guessed that we first made it 4 years ago. But, here we are. We were waiting for a “nicer” day to do it. Today wasn’t terribly cold, so we seized the day. The only …
Category: food & drink
smithmyer’s
After countless years of seeing their ad in the paper, we finally made a trip to Smithmyer’s Superette in Loretto to grab one of their meat bundles. The price was definitely right–$70 for 25 pounds of meat (pork, beef and chicken). I’ve been struggling with our meat purchases ever since …
limoncello
I promised Judy that I’d show her how to make limoncello the next time I made a batch, and this happened last night. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now, but I realized recently that if I wanted to have it ready by Christmas, I had better …
experiment
Edit: Sauerkraut. I forgot to mention the sauerkraut. I took the past four Friday afternoons off in order to do some food preservation. The summer weekends always seem so busy and there’s no time during the week for more intensive tasks. This month, I canned two types of jam and …
more, please
What a beautiful weekend filled with awesome activities. Friday night, we bottled two batches of wine. I covered yesterday in this post. As for today: this morning, I finished knitting Jake’s hat; I got in some more gardening (my hope is to get the pond opened up tomorrow, so I …