No I'm not buying a fat pig......if you don't get it ......look here
But seriously we have had a WONDERFUL summer. The month of July and most of August has had NO measurable rain. This means that most Friday afternoon since it's opened we have been able to go to our local farmers market. We go by daycare after work pick up JT and head on over. Our market is small and I'm just fine with that. It is around our "lake". They are other markets around town that are huge and that to me is just silly. We have a little bit of everything.......honey, wine, beef, cupcakes, kettle korn, flowers, veggies, gyro's, pizza, tamales, local rotating stuff like theaters, handmade pasta, bakery, soaps.....
My favorite farm is Lee Farm. They are wonderful and save me a dozen eggs just in case I get caught at work and can't get there on time. They also have wonderful pies and donuts along with a nice little assortment of veggies. The bubba is one to sniff the basket when we get home in hopes of there being some donuts in there and if that's the case she stands guard at the counter where they sit.
Starting this weekend I am only getting their veggies. I have always started there and then filled in at the other stand but to be honest the other stands veggies just aren't that good. Couldn't eat the celery I got there last week it was so bitter.
There is also some local music up on the grassy knoll. Usually just someone with an instrument, mic stand, and a speaker.
To be honest there have been a couple of Friday's that we have been in and out quickly because its just been tooooo hot. Poor veggies do not like that weather either. And I hate to have the babe out in that. And lately with everything going on we haven't made it in a while but I'm counting on going this Friday........
Its funny how at the market last summer I was pregnant, this summer JT is in his car seat in the stroller, and next summer he will either be in his stroller or walking along side us.
There are only a couple left and I will miss this little Friday evening tradition.......
Oh and make this......trust me......its all you need for a great light summer supper.....its the kind of recipe that will inspire me to freeze some summer corn before it is too late.....
About Me
- Makanani
- I live in the Pacific NW with my husband,our 85 pound black lab and the newest member of our family our adorable little boy! I love to cook, stick my hands in the dirt and grow veggies and flowers, etc., craft for gift giving, repurpose things from my grandmother, find a cozy corner and curl up with a good book, and most of all hang out with my boys and our furry one.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Update.....
Just thought you might want to know that I do not think we will be having anymore little mound dirts in our backyard.
G went to the place with the helpful hardware man and invested in a contraption of sorts. It involved some sort of small gun like thing and empty shot gun shells. The less I know the better to be honest. A sweet boy came and buried in the ground early in the week and the mounds still appeared. So he came back on Sunday and......well G was gone and I had the pickle down for a nap so I was taking a break relaxing on the couch and there was a small weird noise. Similar to a car backfiring very far away. It was an odd noise. G wanted me to go and look in the hole and I told him he was crazy. He came home Monday and looked and is convinced our critter will not be bothering us again.
Some lesser know mole facts we learned from the boy that buried/installed the contraption:
In other critter news apparently our exihbits at the local zoo are very realistic.....
And speaking of beavers.......college football official starts tomorrow and our first game is Saturday. It will be pickle first and hopefully not last game. Hopefully it won't rain or be too hot.
G went to the place with the helpful hardware man and invested in a contraption of sorts. It involved some sort of small gun like thing and empty shot gun shells. The less I know the better to be honest. A sweet boy came and buried in the ground early in the week and the mounds still appeared. So he came back on Sunday and......well G was gone and I had the pickle down for a nap so I was taking a break relaxing on the couch and there was a small weird noise. Similar to a car backfiring very far away. It was an odd noise. G wanted me to go and look in the hole and I told him he was crazy. He came home Monday and looked and is convinced our critter will not be bothering us again.
Some lesser know mole facts we learned from the boy that buried/installed the contraption:
- they are very territorial
- they are loaners (not sure why there are so many of them then........)
- they don't like it when the break through the surface
In other critter news apparently our exihbits at the local zoo are very realistic.....
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And speaking of beavers.......college football official starts tomorrow and our first game is Saturday. It will be pickle first and hopefully not last game. Hopefully it won't rain or be too hot.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wholey Moley
So you know they say things happen in threes and my husband has been counting......
His car counts as one......
And apparently our backyard visitor counts as two......
Our neighbor (who I like but is a little quirky) came over the other night because he had moles and it had eaten his favorite tomatoe plant. Keep in mind this man spends HOURS upon HOURS in his backyard working on his garden so he was very displeased with the whole thing. He wanted permission to come into our yard and dig a hole and plant something to scare the moles off. He had already planted them in his yard. What did he plant? I have absolutely no idea. I however went out onto the back porch when he and G were back there and did my best rendition of "I'm alright" from Caddysack. Neighbor didn't get it.....G laughed however.
As of last night however we are laughing no more. Neighbor got rid of them alright - they or he or she - who knows - is now in my yard. And destroying it........tunnel by tunnel......mound by mound. Sad thing is we already invested a lot of time and money to level and fix our backyard and it looked (if I do say so myself) very nice. Neighbors yard is just a flurry of different flower/vegetable beds with pile so crap everywhere. Our nice lawn.......gone.......
When G gets mad he swears and they aren't nice swear words. And boy did the words come flying out of his mouth last night. He was loud and didn't care. This from a man who never talks like this ever. I however told him to pipe down everyone could hear him. It is a nice little string of words dealing with the women who have children and the use of a mouth. It all rhymes and is musical in some respects but truly nothing anyone wants hear. I'm sure the neighbors thought we were such a lovely couple before this. Need to make sure this doesn't happen........
This is how I see it. It's grass....its a lawn......yes it will cost money to fix. But hey in the big scheme of things this is small. And G's car being wrecked worked out ok in the long run and so will this. Could be worse.......could be the front lawn......
Wonder what three will be?
In other news....the stir fry Chix/Broc was lovely. I marinated the chicken before hand and added a little sherry ginger at the end.....
His car counts as one......
And apparently our backyard visitor counts as two......
Our neighbor (who I like but is a little quirky) came over the other night because he had moles and it had eaten his favorite tomatoe plant. Keep in mind this man spends HOURS upon HOURS in his backyard working on his garden so he was very displeased with the whole thing. He wanted permission to come into our yard and dig a hole and plant something to scare the moles off. He had already planted them in his yard. What did he plant? I have absolutely no idea. I however went out onto the back porch when he and G were back there and did my best rendition of "I'm alright" from Caddysack. Neighbor didn't get it.....G laughed however.
As of last night however we are laughing no more. Neighbor got rid of them alright - they or he or she - who knows - is now in my yard. And destroying it........tunnel by tunnel......mound by mound. Sad thing is we already invested a lot of time and money to level and fix our backyard and it looked (if I do say so myself) very nice. Neighbors yard is just a flurry of different flower/vegetable beds with pile so crap everywhere. Our nice lawn.......gone.......
When G gets mad he swears and they aren't nice swear words. And boy did the words come flying out of his mouth last night. He was loud and didn't care. This from a man who never talks like this ever. I however told him to pipe down everyone could hear him. It is a nice little string of words dealing with the women who have children and the use of a mouth. It all rhymes and is musical in some respects but truly nothing anyone wants hear. I'm sure the neighbors thought we were such a lovely couple before this. Need to make sure this doesn't happen........
This is how I see it. It's grass....its a lawn......yes it will cost money to fix. But hey in the big scheme of things this is small. And G's car being wrecked worked out ok in the long run and so will this. Could be worse.......could be the front lawn......
Wonder what three will be?
In other news....the stir fry Chix/Broc was lovely. I marinated the chicken before hand and added a little sherry ginger at the end.....
Monday, August 19, 2013
Seconds
I am a big advocate of cook once, eat twice.
Being that I am sequestered to living in a cube 40 hours a week along with a lovely little commute through the country side to get home - the time I have to spend with pickle is limited during the week. Also, I would like to eat before 8 pm when its hard for me to stay awake past 9:30.
All this being said there is not a lot of time to be spent on the weeknights preparing dinners and this is where cook once, eat twice comes into play. I am lucky in that my husband does not require a whole redirect of the dinner. He is perfectly happy to eat the exact same meal twice - we just don't do it two nights in a row. But sometimes a little redirect is in order.
Also, lets be honest. There is just the two of us eating (pickle doesn't count yet) and nice little 9x9 pan of enchiladas is more than enough for two meals - maybe even with a little left over for lunch.
What brings this to mind is that last night we had some lovely steak skewers from the whole paycheck. They were marinated so the meat just melted in your mouth and had some wonderful peppers and onions on the skewer as well. G BBQ'd them perfectly. The pieces of meat were huge however and so luckily there is enough left for Tuesday's nights dinner! I'm going to do a hash of sorts I think. I have some potatoes from the farmers market that I will bake tonight and then tomorrow I can cube them and mix them with the leftover steak and veggies.
Speaking of veggies.....I am zuchninned out and must take a break. I know I will yearn for it come winter but I need something besides green beans, zucchini, and corn. I love our little farmers market but the one farmer I trust is a little limited. So this week I didn't make it to the market and just got some veggies for the week at the market and we hadn't had broccoli in a while and then this came across my plate today......let's hope its a hit!
Being that I am sequestered to living in a cube 40 hours a week along with a lovely little commute through the country side to get home - the time I have to spend with pickle is limited during the week. Also, I would like to eat before 8 pm when its hard for me to stay awake past 9:30.
All this being said there is not a lot of time to be spent on the weeknights preparing dinners and this is where cook once, eat twice comes into play. I am lucky in that my husband does not require a whole redirect of the dinner. He is perfectly happy to eat the exact same meal twice - we just don't do it two nights in a row. But sometimes a little redirect is in order.
Also, lets be honest. There is just the two of us eating (pickle doesn't count yet) and nice little 9x9 pan of enchiladas is more than enough for two meals - maybe even with a little left over for lunch.
What brings this to mind is that last night we had some lovely steak skewers from the whole paycheck. They were marinated so the meat just melted in your mouth and had some wonderful peppers and onions on the skewer as well. G BBQ'd them perfectly. The pieces of meat were huge however and so luckily there is enough left for Tuesday's nights dinner! I'm going to do a hash of sorts I think. I have some potatoes from the farmers market that I will bake tonight and then tomorrow I can cube them and mix them with the leftover steak and veggies.
Speaking of veggies.....I am zuchninned out and must take a break. I know I will yearn for it come winter but I need something besides green beans, zucchini, and corn. I love our little farmers market but the one farmer I trust is a little limited. So this week I didn't make it to the market and just got some veggies for the week at the market and we hadn't had broccoli in a while and then this came across my plate today......let's hope its a hit!
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| Broc/Chix Stir Fry found here |
Monday, August 12, 2013
Simple....
.....Summer Supper
So truth be told this was a rocky weekend. Remember this? Well that lovely little virus apparently was making its way through daycare unannounced and uninvited to all of us until about Thursday evening. Skipper surprise birthday party would have to go on without us as well. I was needed instead rocking a very weary and puny little one and doing lots of laundry. And you know what? There truly was no other place I would of rather been. He is of the age where he doesn't really liked to be rocked so much anymore and if there is one thing a puny whiny pickle needs its his mama - nice to be needed......
Any who what does this have to do with supper you say?
Nothing......
Neither does this....
Or this...
That is (or was) my husband's car until the idiot driving the truck decided to destroy it. G's wasn't in the car it was parked on the side of the street minding its own waiting for G to come and get it. Long story short we also had to go and look at cars this weekend.....
Big picture although this is a colossal pain in the okole nobody was hurt and it's a car it can be replaced.
But I tell you all this because when it came to have dinner Saturday night there was not much in the house. We had not made it to the farmers market or Friday nor the grocery store. So I rummaged around in the freezer and whipped up a simple summer supper......
So truth be told this was a rocky weekend. Remember this? Well that lovely little virus apparently was making its way through daycare unannounced and uninvited to all of us until about Thursday evening. Skipper surprise birthday party would have to go on without us as well. I was needed instead rocking a very weary and puny little one and doing lots of laundry. And you know what? There truly was no other place I would of rather been. He is of the age where he doesn't really liked to be rocked so much anymore and if there is one thing a puny whiny pickle needs its his mama - nice to be needed......
Any who what does this have to do with supper you say?
Nothing......
Neither does this....
That is (or was) my husband's car until the idiot driving the truck decided to destroy it. G's wasn't in the car it was parked on the side of the street minding its own waiting for G to come and get it. Long story short we also had to go and look at cars this weekend.....
Big picture although this is a colossal pain in the okole nobody was hurt and it's a car it can be replaced.
But I tell you all this because when it came to have dinner Saturday night there was not much in the house. We had not made it to the farmers market or Friday nor the grocery store. So I rummaged around in the freezer and whipped up a simple summer supper......
- Chicken Sausages from the freezer sliced and grilled on the stove (no BBQ'ing as there was a huge threat of a thunder storm - because the weekend wasn't exciting enough)
- One lonely little yellow squash from my garden sauteed with some fresh herbs and topped of with some fresh tomatoes from my garden
- This little life saver which is a pantry staple in my book. Who doesn't love barley that is ready in 10 - and trust me it is. I also recommend the 10 minute bulgar
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Someone told me its all happening at the ......
ZOO!
This past weekend we took J on his first trip to the Zoo! We slathered on the sunscreen grabbed our hats and off we went! We have a nice zoo that I haven't been too in years (although they could use more parking). I used to help my mom on her field trips many, many, many moons ago but things have changed. You come in a different way and there are all of these 'section's now. The weather was great - not too hot - and most of the animals were in full view. G did a lot of "quit looking at the humans you see them all the time - see the (insert animal)". But I have to say I agree with J - the zoo is a great place to people watch. He loved the giraffe although I don't know if he made the connection that it looked like his Sophie and he reached out like he wanted to touch the polar bear. Probably thought it was a giant white dog. He also seemed to like the penguins however he was a little concerned about the boy who was crying because he had fallen. We will continue to go with him for sure and probably become a member after he turns 2.. Highlight for me was getting to see Lily - our zoo's newest member of the elephant family. I didn't however get to see Packy our oldest pachyderm so we will have to go back. We ended the day with a Icee and hot dog and J had a bottle before heading back home. All in all a good day.
This past weekend we took J on his first trip to the Zoo! We slathered on the sunscreen grabbed our hats and off we went! We have a nice zoo that I haven't been too in years (although they could use more parking). I used to help my mom on her field trips many, many, many moons ago but things have changed. You come in a different way and there are all of these 'section's now. The weather was great - not too hot - and most of the animals were in full view. G did a lot of "quit looking at the humans you see them all the time - see the (insert animal)". But I have to say I agree with J - the zoo is a great place to people watch. He loved the giraffe although I don't know if he made the connection that it looked like his Sophie and he reached out like he wanted to touch the polar bear. Probably thought it was a giant white dog. He also seemed to like the penguins however he was a little concerned about the boy who was crying because he had fallen. We will continue to go with him for sure and probably become a member after he turns 2.. Highlight for me was getting to see Lily - our zoo's newest member of the elephant family. I didn't however get to see Packy our oldest pachyderm so we will have to go back. We ended the day with a Icee and hot dog and J had a bottle before heading back home. All in all a good day.
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