, on February 21st, 2010 
Do you still feel the same Tysen?!?!?!
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All I have done today (Sunday) is Sleep, Eat, Shovel, Eat, Sleep, and am about to Shovel again. My guess is that the snow averaged about 2 ft, but I haven’t measured. My shoveling technique also needs improvement. The first pass needs to be down the center of the driveway to provide equal amounts of left and right shoveling. This is not what I did. I ended up sacrificing my car for Kathryn’s, I hope I don’t need to leave any time soon. Scan this vid. Here is a picture of our half-share of our Florida CSA. As I have described, it is a “hole-in-the-wall” farm near our offices. Winter crops have been a lot (repeat A LOT) of greens, some of which I cannot eat (end up doubled over in belly pain). Plus, they don’t tell us what we are getting ahead of time. Oh well, there are better CSAs in the area, just not close enough to make it worth it to sign up.
So we got lazy, maybe we drank a few too many hard ciders along the way, but the bottom line is that we didn’t keep track of our ratings. None of this second round compared with the original Scrumpy’s Hard Cider or some of the other round one drinks. So here is what we had, round two included:
* the only two that were kind of good, we think. Yay, back to Scrumpy’s. It’s hard to believe a whole year has passed since Arcadia was born. For Arcadia’s birthday, we celebrated with cake. Because Arcadia likes to eat everything put in front of her, I knew that I needed to make a healthy cake for her consumption. A while back I stumbled upon a recipe for a Harvest Cake with Goat Cheese frosting, so this is what I made for her. I split the recipe to make 12 mini-cupcakes and the remaining cake batter was baked in our 10-inch hexagon pan. The only changes to the recipe I made were using half whole wheat and half unbleached all-purpose flour and I substituted applesauce for the oil. As indicated in the comments on the recipe post, I too had trouble with the frosting not solidifying. Although, Tysen wasn’t a big fan of the taste of the icing, so maybe next time I’ll just make cream cheese frosting for the cake. The cake turned out yummy. Arcadia ate 2 mini-cupcakes at daycare and proceeded to eat more cake after dinner tonight. Here’s some shots of her enjoying the cake.
Cooking slowed down last week. Due to illnesses all around, neither of us were up for much cooking. Finally this weekend I cooked. We had pumpkin soup (nothing spectacular about this recipe), autumn harvest bread (made with carrots, pumpkin, and applesauce), pumpkin chocolate chip cookies (cake-y oat-y chocolate-y goodness), and sweet potato biscuits (the first time I ever made these–someone else has always taken care of making these). Stay tuned for news and reviews on the new CSA we signed up for. In considering whether to sign up for the 2010 CSA share at Bull Run Mountain Farm, I wanted to check out other CSA options. Here’s what I found: Olin-Fox Farms – organic produce from a network of farms in Reedville, VA. This CSA offers, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and year round CSA memberships. Also has a separate summer fruit share. Farm fresh eggs are delivered with the share when available. We signed up for the remaining Fall 2009 CSA at a prorated price. I’ll try to keep up with posting pictures and recipes of what we get. Dragonfly Farms – this one is the cream of the crop as far as CSA options go. Tysen got really excited about this one, but its a bit too pricey. But check out their options. Pretty fancy! They offer spring/summer and fall shares. Offers traditional and premium shares. Graceland Farms – another organic/sustainable farm with summer and fall options. Shares may include berries, honey, and fruit from other farms. Can add on local cheese. Great Country Farms – Some organic, but not all. This one has the added bonus of being able to go to the farm and pick berries and additional items, but its far away from us. They also have a lot of activities for kids, which are free to CSA members. Offers full and half shares. Potomac Vegetable Farm – “Ecoganic” – they’ve been organic for years, but no longer subject themselves to certification. Summer and Autumn shares available in multiple share sizes (mini, regular, and robust) with add-ons of eggs, flowers, and breads. |
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Corn, sweet potatoes, double garlic, honey, tomatillos (all but two had buggies), salad greens, mixed greens, mustard greens, “stuffing” peppers, hot peppers, and apples (Arkansas Black, Staymen, Winesap, and Virginia Gold)
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