Cedar Writes

Category: Recipe

  • Building and Popovers

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    The part of the Barn that will be Mica’s forge is going up fast! We have three walls up, and since it will be 16′ tall at the front and 8′ at the back, they decked all of the upper story temporarily while they assemble and raise that front wall. The upper loft will only…

  • Cooking From the Garden II

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      Continuing the theme of cooking with what I harvested, I made Focaccia Bread for lunch. Fresh herbs, ripe tomatoes, and some shredded summer squash on herby-garlicky dough was delicious!   Focaccia Bread   5 1/2 c all-purpose flour 2 tsp salt 2 tsp white sugar 4 tsp active dry yeast 2 tbsp vegetable oil 2 c warm water (105-115…

  • Cooking from the Garden

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    When I came in this morning from chores, I had a basket full of goodies. Eggs, blueberries, summer squash, basil, tomatoes and raspberries. I had a couple of very large zucchini, and that made me think of zucchini bread. I wanted to kick up the standard Zucchini bread recipe a little, so I threw in…

  • Strawberry Jam

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    I went out for another hour this morning and picked strawberries with Johann. Actually, he chased butterflies and I picked. I seem to be averaging a cup of berries in an hour. When I came back in and took a look at my berries we had 6 cups total, 5 when mashed up a little.…

  • Power Outage Minestrone

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    We’d had a power outage the other day, the result of a particularly violent thunderstorm moving through. I came home from work in the middle of it, and made dinner in the dark. This is the reason I insist on always having a gas stove. I can light it even without the automatic starter. I’d…

  • Alaska Memories

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    I bought myself a treat yesterday. I found real Tang and came home with it. I was telling Mica this morning that it brought back memories of Alaska. We came to New Hampshire straight from the big state twenty years ago. My favorite thing to do with Tang up there was to make an Alaskan…

  • Fast Food and Hard Labor

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    It’s been a busy day. I’d intended to make dinner and put it in the crockpot this morning and slept in instead, so I left for work without doing it. And then I found a craigslist offer of free railroad ties and set it up to pick them up after work. And finally, my other…

  • Pot Full of Sunshine

    Pot Full of Sunshine

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    I was making dinner last night, just a simple spaghetti for the three of us adults as the kids were all out for the evening. While I was pulling together the ingredients from the pantry, I was thinking about how satisfying it is to be able to cook with things I put up from the…

  • Pigs!

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    We’d planned to get pigs for a while… they were supposed to be piglets, you know, little 20 pound babies that would elicit adoring “sqee!’s” from my daughters. Well, I finally spotted a litter on craigslist that wasn’t too expensive (the price of piglets around here is outrageous!) and pounced on them. Yesterday we were…

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    Grandma Lily’s Ground Beef Stroganoff I am making this tonight, and it is bringing my Great-Grandmother to mind. She died a few years back, at the grand old age of 107, and I am so glad that we made it out to visit her with Glady, and had a five-generation picture done with her. This…