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Porch update: The four sungold cherry tomatoes I transplanted two weeks ago? Now all four plants have flowers, and at least two of them have tiny tomatoes already! Also, the lavender plant I put the rest of the fish stuff into is doing much better, with lots of new dark green shoots all over. There's lots of shiso seedlings (anyone need some red shiso plants?), chives, and some oregano. I should get some basil, maybe a few other kinds of edible things (hot peppers? mint? nasturtiums? something else?).
Last week's food experiment success: mashing just-baked sweet potato with some crunchy peanut butter (the kind that's 'natural' and somewhat runnier than commercial brands). With a little extra salt, it was just what I wanted.
I've already updated the metro Boston farmers markets Google calendar for the year, and decided to make a map of the ones that are most T-accessible, with days and times included, of course. (There are lots more that are bus-accessible, or not-quite-so-close to T stations; I was going for simplicity and ease of transit while potentially carrying pounds of produce :-).
This week in food preservation: finished a batch of rhubarb liqueur, started a batch of Valencia orange and coffee cherry liqueur, and canned six pints of rhubarb chutney (I had the little bit left over after canning, and think this will be really good).
Some links that caught my attention:
* alcoholic popsicles, aka cocktail popsicles, aka poptail recipes; this could be very dangerous this summer :-)
* a UK town aiming to grow all it's own veg
* the mayor of Ithaca turned his parking space into a mini-park
* a site, a la couchsurfing, for travelers to camp in people's gardens (I think it's an English site; for "garden" read "yard" for USians)
* forming images by biking using a GPS to capture routes
* photographs showing artificial order from natural chaos
And some Kickstarter campaigns:
* Boston Circus Guild's new show to run at Oberon, Threshhold
* Sam Perry's firespinning puppets
* Shady Asylum is returning to Black Rock City (last time it was there was my first year going, and it was amazing to take my shoes off to go into a pyramid carpeted in actual grass, not only for my happy feet, but also for my mind, seeing all that live green)
Last week's food experiment success: mashing just-baked sweet potato with some crunchy peanut butter (the kind that's 'natural' and somewhat runnier than commercial brands). With a little extra salt, it was just what I wanted.
I've already updated the metro Boston farmers markets Google calendar for the year, and decided to make a map of the ones that are most T-accessible, with days and times included, of course. (There are lots more that are bus-accessible, or not-quite-so-close to T stations; I was going for simplicity and ease of transit while potentially carrying pounds of produce :-).
This week in food preservation: finished a batch of rhubarb liqueur, started a batch of Valencia orange and coffee cherry liqueur, and canned six pints of rhubarb chutney (I had the little bit left over after canning, and think this will be really good).
Some links that caught my attention:
* alcoholic popsicles, aka cocktail popsicles, aka poptail recipes; this could be very dangerous this summer :-)
* a UK town aiming to grow all it's own veg
* the mayor of Ithaca turned his parking space into a mini-park
* a site, a la couchsurfing, for travelers to camp in people's gardens (I think it's an English site; for "garden" read "yard" for USians)
* forming images by biking using a GPS to capture routes
* photographs showing artificial order from natural chaos
And some Kickstarter campaigns:
* Boston Circus Guild's new show to run at Oberon, Threshhold
* Sam Perry's firespinning puppets
* Shady Asylum is returning to Black Rock City (last time it was there was my first year going, and it was amazing to take my shoes off to go into a pyramid carpeted in actual grass, not only for my happy feet, but also for my mind, seeing all that live green)