We had live rattle snake excitement last week, we had a guy who parked on top of a rock, and Sunday we evacuated because of a fire. To be accurate, the boys evacuated and I stayed to take pictures. By the time we had the car packed with children and computers, and I managed one…
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Homemade pesto, a summer ritual
Abundant and prolific herbs is a sure sign of summer. Back in graduate school my husband and I grew herbs on the porch of our apartment and always focused on basil. By this time of year we harvested our prolific basil and turned it into pesto that we dined on all year long. The only…
Homemade baby food, another great way to preserve the taste of summer
Babies are precious and all the more so when they reinforce your own values by eating vigorously anything that comes out of your home garden. Baby Alastair is eight months old and eating us out of nectarines and vegetables. It is a good thing we have a big garden. But gardens come and go; our…
Sun dried tomatoes, making your own
In our video series on preserving the taste of summer, Mom describes in the videos below how to dry tomatoes and how to preserve them in olive oil. If you end up with a tomato bounty, this really is an easy way to preserve them, though you do need temperatures of at least 85 degrees….
It’s the “daily hassles” that will get you
I am currently exhausted and in recovery mode from a whole lot of work. We are all so vulnerable when we are exhausted and we need to protect ourselves from all of the little things that take away our energy and patience. It is those little things that can sneak up and kick you right…
When among snakes, bring a pistol
I may start carrying a pistol around here though for yesterday’s purpose, a rifle may be a better bet. How do these guys shoot the head of a snake with a pistol? I have no idea, but I was impressed. I was two feet from the snake when I discovered him. We rounded up some…
More Frederick craft: The produce mobile
Seven-year-old Frederick goes through craft phases on occasion. His most well-known may be the Pollan Painting phase. That particular phase lasted for about three days and then he lost all interest in crafts until this summer. Recently, Frederick made the paper mache cow with water balloon udders and this mobile. The mobile features baby Alastair’s…
Putting up a pepper bounty, quick and easy
Last summer we had such a pepper bounty Mom created a new system for freezing them. In a previous video, she describes her method for freezing vegetables in pieces, but here we have an inspiration: “pepper plops.” Check out how she makes them, freezes them, and uses them later. Written instructions are below the jump,…
New information products; Latest supplement giveaway
Things have been wild around here in the last week. We have been scrambling to tie the knots on two new information products we are selling from this site. I will surely be posting about the products in more detail in the coming weeks, but I’ll just introduce them briefly now. Phytic acid paper Since…
Discovering sweet peppers this summer
We are so excited about our pepper crop this year. We have already enjoyed many trays of our roasted sweet Italian peppers, the bell pepper stuffed with egg salad, and pepper in our Armenian salad. My mom put together a little video describing many different peppers and why you should try all of them. Watch…
“I sure hope conventional produce has the nutrient content of organic…”
Last week the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition announced a study, a meta-analysis, of the research on the nutrient content of organic and conventional produce. The authors found no difference between organic and conventional, but they did limit their inquiry to the narrow question of food micro-nutrients. They did not examine pesticide residues or the…
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Life After Depression
There really is life after depression. I am so excited by that point, in fact, that I neglect this blog and find fun/quirky projects to do with my family. We live in the Sequoia National Forest in a house (and former brothel) designed by Irving Gill. My 7-year-old son Frederick and I chronicle our adventures at Gill on the Hill when we're not exploring. Frederick posts some of his homeschool projects at "Frankly Frederick."