I got to meet Alana of the blog Eating from the Ground Up. She introduced herself to me through a lovely email some years back and we’ve been internet buddies ever since. Her book, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making
A Columbus Day tag sale (my kind of holiday). I bought a glass canning funnel for $.50. When I picked it up, the woman asked gruffly, “Do you know what that is?” I wish that people would stop equating youth with food preservation illiteracy.
At a farm outside Northampton with art placed around the orchard. I bought garlic and talked canning with the owner. I wished it had been cooler, it’s hard to feel properly autumnal when it’s 80 degrees.
Taught a canning class in the morning and then drove to Northampton with Scott. We were there to visit Becky, Eric and Spaetzle (the cat). When we arrived, they were making dinner for us. We ate on their screened-in porch, enjoying the unseasonably warm weather and talking about friends, music and how to spend our weekend.
Scrambling to get my Serious Eats pickle post done before a busy weekend kicks in. I’m always later than I’m supposed to be when it comes to prepping that post. I finished these jars in the last ten minutes before heading out for a surprise birthday party. Someday, I’ll learn to time things better.
Home again and happy to be back in the kitchen. I cooked three meals today and loved feeling so food-connected again.
Travel day.
Here’s a fun thing for this weekend, should you be free. Buick has teamed up with Food & Wine to host a Buick Discovery Tour in the Philly area. Those with tickets will have the opportunity to view a variety of cooking demonstrations, sample tidbits from those demos and test drive vehicles from Buick’s 2012 line-up. Celebrity Chef Ming Tsai will there, along with Food & Wine 2010 Best New Chef Jonathan Sawyer.
Should you be interested in attending, simply follow @GMNortheast on Twitter and direct a tweet at them saying you want to go.
A canning class at Kitchen Cru. Thirteen Portlanders came out to make jam and talk canning with me. It was a total treat. Many thanks to Sasha who helped me connect with the space and bought those gorgeous, locally grown Bartlett pears.
Freshly picked from my parents’ garden. Though it’s October, they still have tomatoes, basil, tender kale and string beans. Because I don’t have a garden myself, I sometimes forget what a miracle it is to be able to grow food with seeds, soil, sunlight and water.