Field trip to Red Fire

[magid]

• >10 ladybugs (also barn swallows, and bees, and a fascinating unknown bug that was purple with orange spots, and rather lumpy)
  
• 10 quarts of strawberries picked
  
• 8 pints of peas picked
  
• 4 goats (2 tiny kids, very cute)
  
• 2 roosters and innumerable chickens (white ones, black ones, brown ones, interestingly multicolored ones)
  
• 2 sunburnt arms
  
• 1 half-pint of local chocolate milk drunk very quickly
  
• 1 barn in the process of being rebuilt
  
• 1 hybrid car (my first time in a hybrid; they're interestingly strange)
  
• 1 driver and conversational partner, who I hadn't seen in ages

It took hours, but all the strawberries are dealt with: 2 quarts kept for eating this Shabbat/weekend, and all the rest hulled. Most of those have been frozen (some individually, some not; I'm too lazy to lay out that many strawberries on cookie sheets that need to be rotated in and out of the freezer), and the rest turned into a strawberry sauce (just fruit). And all shell and snap peas (6 pints) have been shelled, ready for being turned into fresh pea soup (I think, unless someone has some other amazing suggestion).

I brought my compostables in this afternoon, and the bucket is about full with with what I generated tonight. I hope wilting will get me some space...

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

yum!

except for the strawberries, which would make me sneeze!

[magid.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you're allergic to strawberries! That wonderfully scented strawberry field would not have been fun for you.

Would be good to see you sometime...

[(Anonymous)]

Cute, "field trip."

Sounds like an exhilarating experience.

It takes me forever to process produce. I am always impressed by the quantity you cook in what seems to be such a short time, as I am horribly inefficient when it comes to vegetable prep.

[magid.livejournal.com]

You know, I hadn't even thought about "field trip"!

I like going out to the farm, though it's far enough away that it's once or twice a season rather than more regularly.

It was hard to get myself moving on getting the produce processed, actually. It helped to play my March Fourth CD (somehow I find the music inspires me to get moving), and for the peas, read my friendsfriends page back a ways as distraction.
(This totally wasn't a short time. With other cooking, I try to organize so I've got a bunch of cooking going on in parallel rather than in series, plus a tendency for stuff that is hands-off once the beginning prep is done.)