slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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Last night’s meal of pork chops with barbeque sauce, field peas, and potato/leek salad was very, very good. I got out my first cookbook, Better Homes and Gardens, to remind myself of how to cook the pork chops. I browned them first, and then simmered them for a long time in the sauce. Excellent. Since…
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Tonight will be a cooking night, since I promised to bake a cake for tomorrow’s permaculture gardening workshop with Charlie. I told him that I’ve never baked a cake before, so if it’s awful, he has to tell me it’s delicious anyway. Now I wish I had thought ahead enough to buy lots of strawberries…
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Looks like my ELC daily posts will cover the evening before, since I don’t usually get on the computer late at night. My eyes need a rest by then. Last night, Sandy and I went out for a couple of drinks after I watered the community row. We have two local breweries in Greensboro –…
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Okay, don’t laugh, but the egg salad sandwich I had for lunch today was nothing less than scrumptious! I was making up a batch of regular egg salad for the Sandman with sweet pickle relish, and spotted the jar of chutney. Generally I wouldn’t think of eating eggs and fruit together, but it was a…
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Because I’m not wasting food, I am eating the yogurt that I forgot about this week, so it won’t go bad. So I had that with “Good God Granola” from Snow Creek Family Organics (Sandy Ridge, NC) this morning. They didn’t grow the ingredients, but they put them together. For lunch, I had a salad…
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This will be a brief post, since I’ve had migraines since last night around 9:30, and I don’t want to poke the monster while it’s snoozing. Because of my sickliness, eating anything and just getting up was a challenge today. So I wasn’t 100%. Today I ate some leftover mac and cheese with broccoli. The…
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I posted my personal goals for the May 2006 Eat Local Challenge a few weeks ago. Now that I’ve had a little more time to mull these over, I’ve tweaked and refined them. Goal: To eat food produced within 100 miles as much as possible, then extend the range to food raised, produced, or caught…
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The Eat Local Challenge is scheduled for May, 2006. Goal: To eat food produced within 100 miles as much as possible, then extend the range to food raised, produced, or caught in North Carolina, South Carolina, or Virginia. Exemptions: salt, pepper, flour, pasta, rice, olive oil, lemon juice, coffee, sugar. I’ll buy my fair-trade organic…
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Through several of the blogs on my new “Local Motive” blog roll, I learned of the Eat Local Challenge. Last August, a group from the San Francisco Bay area called themselves the Locavores and issued this challenge to whoever chose to take it up: For one month, set a goal to eat within a 100…
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Daddy and me, 1965. Lately I’ve been sitting around fantasizing about a little farm, with a wee house, and a kitchen with a door so that I could produce baked and canned goods for sale. The door is necessary to keep our four cats out so that I could pass a health inspection. See, I’m…
slowly she turned 