Entries from September 2007

September 30, 2007

Oven-Dried Tomatoes

What to do with a surplus of little sweet tomatoes from the garden?
Our daytime temperature is falling fast, but we’re still getting large handfuls of sweet grape tomatoes from the garden every day. After seeing the price of sun-dried tomatoes at the grocery store ($4.00 for a small bag? and look at the preservatives!) I [...]

September 18, 2007

Summer Garden Bruschetta

Unfortunately, this summer was not great for our garden. We had a late start due to a cool spring, a wicked windstorm in early August, and just not enough days of sunny and hot. (The heat wave we saw in late July helped, but it was a little too late and too short to do [...]

September 10, 2007

Farmers’ Market Haul

We’ve been making regular visits to the St. Norbert Farmers’ Market (which totally gets bonus points for putting the apostrophe in the right place) throughout the summer. It’s huge and sprawling on Saturdays, while on Wednesdays it easilly fits under the main white tent. Unfortunately, I’m only off work every other weekend (which limits how [...]

September 9, 2007

Technical Difficulties: Please Stand By

So, two weeks ago my hard drive blew up. Yes, the new one.
After over a week of tears and sweat, I am back up and running once more. Profiles restored, photos relocated, passwords remembered. It’s amazing how much stuff is kept in these little boxes… And this time, I’m running on a RAID 1 so [...]