This year…it’s on. Each blackberry picking season I’m trying to beat the birds, rabbits, our chickens, and the elements to get enough blackberries to freeze and can for the year. I have plenty…I just have to get to them before everything else does. It seems that since we put a few bee hives on the [...]
This cotton pickin’ garden will be planted by this weekend…even if we have to work in the dark. Ok, we won’t go that far…the mosquitoes are trying to fly us away during the daytime as it is. Between my red bug bites…mosquito bites…poison sumac rash and ant bites I don’t think I can handle the [...]
Warm weather is coming…well really already here. Our high is in the mid 80′s with 70-80% humidity…low of 70 at night. It feels good to start line drying some clothes again. Everything dries so fast this time of year when the weather is almost 90 degrees but the humidity isn’t 100% yet. It’s incredible. [...]
Sometimes I make very quick rash decisions that I know if I don’t act on immediately I never will. This beast of a microwave has made me uncomfortable from day one…all microwaves do. Maybe it was after seeing that experiment where water was boiled in the microwave, then cooled to room temperature and used on [...]
Our first garden was NOT organic and while plenty of vegetables were produced…it was not a healthy garden. The following year we made the decision to go organic for, like most people, a multitude of reasons. Living in southern Louisiana on a bayou in solid clay soil proved to be a very difficult environment to [...]
Dru mapped out the plans for our second garden. We had an issue with fungus this past year (a common issue in southern Louisiana…especially being right on a bayou) and are relocating our night shade vegetables. Fungal problems in your organic vegetable garden can be a devastating occurrence. There are a few different ways to [...]
This past Sunday, March 19th was St. Joseph’s day on which the centuries old tradition of St. Joseph’s Altars are prepared. I love, love this day. Our local altar is usually in a church gym and preparations take months. The three-tier altar contains beautiful bread loaves, wine, candles, cakes…etc. Hundreds and hundreds of people attend [...]
It’s Monday…It was a long Monday following a long, hectic (in a good way but tiring nonetheless) weekend. Here’s some easy white beans, sausage, and rice. Hopefully I can stay conscious until it’s finished. 3 cans white beans (navy or great northern…organic if you can) 1 C organic chicken broth or water 1 bunch organic [...]
It is now the 3rd week of Lent and this shrimp etouffee is what I cooked this past Friday. I made shrimp alfredo last week so I was planning on crawfish etouffee but could not track down any frozen crawfish…so shrimp etouffee it is. It was tasty…although I prefer it with crawfish. This is my [...]
This year…it’s on. Each blackberry picking season I’m trying to beat the birds, rabbits, our chickens, and the elements to get enough blackberries to freeze and can for the year. I have plenty…I just have to get to them before everything else does. It seems that since we put a few bee hives on the [...]
