16 August 2009

Pyrex love

I love old Pyrex, so I was somewhat thrilled to stumble across Pyrex Love few months ago. Browsing the different patterns on this website sure makes me want more Pyrex.
Here's some of the Pyrex that I own.

I have a 2 casserole dishes with the Butterfly Gold 2 pattern:


I have 3 refrigerator dishes with the Butterprint pattern:


And my favorite Pyrex dish (that I own) is this divided casserole dish, Royal Serving Dish Promotional with Cradle (but I don't have the cradle):

This dish is especially nice for times when I'm baking vegetarian and carnivore foods at the same time.


13 August 2009

Dehydrating

My food dehydrator is being put to good use these days. 

Ripe cherries, there were too many for E and I to eat by ourselves before they would spoil.

Nebraska tomatoes with marjoram from the California garden.

Nebraska cucumbers that were too numerous to eat before they'd spoil. I have some ideas brewing about how to best use dried cucumbers.

02 August 2009

Garden

Garden on 10 July.

Here's what I've planted:

Bed one: thyme, chives, oregano, onions, eggplant, brussel sprouts, bok choy, flowers

Bed two: broccoli, cucumbers, tomatillos, green onions, flowers

Bed three: hot peppers, leeks, tomatoes, basil, flowers

Near the fence: butternut squash, acorn squash, flowers

Here's what's happened:
Broccoli, mostly harvested and eaten
Cucumbers, seeds aren't sprouting
Bok choy, destroyed by out of control earwig population and rendered inedible

Everything else seems to be doing alright and I'm just watering, weeding and waiting.

26 April 2009

Raised beds

Just after planting some starts and seeds in our new garden it snowed.


That's some cold bok choy.