the pantry project: November 24

several year old bar of unsweetened baking chocolate

chocolate-walnut fudge

sky study #101

sunrise November 25, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving to You

cheese soldiers

blue cheese truckle corps

stormtrooper corps

Boss Nass loves Boss Mouse

true snow bunnies

The bunnies don't mind the snow at all, in fact, they choose to stay out in it day and night.  Here they are enjoying a collard green plant and apples 

Beautiful Licky with powdered sugar

more Michelle magic

fried Boss Mouse spicy pepper cheese curds with fresh chile garlic aioli, topped with scallions

tatty ladies

Shannon  and Raquel get buzzed

morning glory glory

Unicorn racer

Old tattoo picture book - 2-page butt span

Detroit doggie guests

Kelly

Giorgio

smoky sweet

vanilla cupcakes topped with a smoked peanut butter buttercream with candied bacon and sea salt! 

My friend Michelle, a very talented cook and caterer, made these cupcakes with a block of Boss Mouse smoked butter!  Wow!

Rudy likes popcorn

AND there was cat hair in my box of pomegranates

cheese and rabbit

I wanna live in a land of lakes, where the great waves break, and the night runs right into the day

- Lord Huron

I got you a Christmas present

When Vienna sausage won't do

quince

A farmer gave me a bunch of fresh quince fruit at the market this past weekend.  Quince are in the apple family, and valued for their disease-resistant rootstock, which fruit farmers graft onto apple tree roots to help them resist blight.  They are like unripe pears, never soften, and have an exotic, floral scent.  All you can really do with them is peel and pare them, and cook them down with a lot of sugar.  Quince paste is a classic sweet to pair with cheese, so I made a lot of it.  It's sticky and delicious.

Quincy likes it!

 

the beauty of M37

Natural wood barn and field on M37 just South of M113 between Buckley and Traverse City

put your feet up and have a cup of tea

Friday thrift shop haul:  two brand new Liberty of London for Target button downs, pristine 50s foot stool and nice white mug - grand total $10.25

a long winter's nap

New winter vegetable/fruit storage shelving for the basement, carefully handcrafted by Reeber Garden Preservation Woodworking

so you can bust a move

Clockwise couple make arch, anti-clockwise couple go through, then make their own arch. Clockwise couple go backwards under this arch. Then make a third arch, and anti-clockwise couple go under it and move forward to meet the next couple.

lil' Viv

Megan's daughter, the sweetest, happiest little baby 

clean

Batch of homemade peppermint-sage soap cut into bars to dry

my feathered friends

who's more handsome than Roosty?  Look at the feathers on his legs

Brownbeard, one of the sweetest hens

autumn leaves

brassica wheelbarrow

Cabbage, brussel sprouts and beets from the garden - snow on the ground this week, so I harvested the last of what's out there.  Still have kale, leeks and celeriac to go.

little red riding yam

They look kind of alike 

horseradish harvest

My first horseradish root (white stalk on the left)  from the horseradish grove in the orchard

size matters

My new 3 foot baker's whisk for Boss Mouse - the curds like it large

sky study #100

The hundredth one!

Sunset Saturday, October 26th, 2013

bamba-lam, whoa, black walnut

5 pounds of unshelled black walnuts, traded at the farmers market

Halloween awesome

My sister and her husband had the best costumes!

Viva the he and she devil!  Ildeu custom-shaves his head every Halloween

credo

file under: feline

Puss 'n drawer.

buns on 2 planes

Blackie up close, as Pinky approaches.  Bunnies forever.

sky study #99

Sunrise October 25th, 2013