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 …
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 …
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 …
We spent yesterday painting Jake’s room. He wanted the walls painted turquoise and gray so we obliged. I hope we don’t have to paint them white when we put the house up for sale in a few years. As we were painting (a chore that I don’t particularly enjoy), I …
I’m attempting the cheese thing again this year. I say “attempting” because I haven’t been overly impressed with my previous attempts. Yesterday, I made parmesan cheese. I tried doing the same thing last year, but parmesan is supposed to age without wax and mine got all moldy and was rendered …