From the monthly archives:

August 2007

An unlikely combination

August 10, 2007

I got a little ambitious for my all local meal this week. Frank had to go down to the Boston burbs for work, and I found a Mexican grocery by googling around, and he stopped to pick me up some masa harina. I bought a simple tortilla press, and decided that I could make my [...]

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Horse adventures

August 6, 2007

Jeremy came over this weekend, and helped us knock together the frame of the horse structure. We busted our tail non-stop, and barely got enough done. We had a drop dead time of dark on Sunday to meet, and we did, but have so much more to go. We just covered the frame with a [...]

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Saturday Bee Update

August 4, 2007

I skipped the bees last week because of the summer doldrums. I could have skipped this week as well. The leftmost hive is finally drawing the comb in their first super (after four weeks). It’s about half done, with no nectar. Interestingly, they’re drawing all the frames at once rather than working from the center [...]

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A little Asian flair for One Local Summer dinner

August 2, 2007

For the starter, I tried two things that were new to me to make from scratch — crackers and raw milk cream cheese. The crackers were ridiculously easy. I started with this recipe from Mark Bittman, mixed a bunch of different types of flour, added flax, sunflower and sesame seeds. Very tasty! The cream cheese [...]

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