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...renee ~ heirloom seasonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06946027766633119376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537609822307770052.post-62938667988506390782017-07-18T07:21:00.000-07:002017-07-18T07:21:29.344-07:00Late Winter Elsa..<br />
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Howdy folks. I'm going to try this once again. Last time I posted this I had huge waves of shyness come over me and so quickly deleted the post. I am actually very unsure if I will be able to get the hang of this sharing/writing thing again. But I might try. Let's see...<br />
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Here I am to finally share the pictures that have been waiting since last year to get posted. At this point in the photos we had already moved into the downstairs of the cabin, after having lived in a little old motor home for the whole first year. (Yep, all five us!)<br />
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So the first half year in the cabin we had only our ceiling/upstairs floor (tongue and groove pine boards) as a roof. And what a rainy spring/summer we had last year! Thankfully we stayed very dry for the first months of almost daily downpours. Thankfully we then got through the next months of leaky roof without any real damage (to the too many books and too much fabric I too anxiously moved into the not finished/not dry cabin...)<br />
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I honestly can't remember if I ever mentioned much about us getting started on the cabin or not. Obviously it has been a somewhat slow process. Which makes sense, since Jason has pretty much built the whole thing himself. Including taking down trees, peeling logs, milling boards. Much wood has come from our own land. Some wood from the lumber store (two by fours, plywood for siding, and tongue and groove pine for floors and ceiling).<br />
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The girls and I were occasional helpers, but like I said, this was almost all Jason. Except for the few wonderful days when it was all Jason and MY DAD! <br />
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We had always dreamed that my dad might be able to help us some day build our home (he has built several of his own) but he lives super far and it was coincidence that he came to visit at just the perfect time. He was able to help Jason get the 20 foot long beam up for the roof ridgepole.<br />
Thank you Daddy!!!<br />
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(If you are wondering how they raised a twenty foot long beam 20 feet up off the ground, it is done about one inch at a time...) <br />
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We were able to move into the upstairs of the cabin just before thanksgiving last year. We have a ways to go till a word like finished can even be thought of, but we have walls all around us, a roof over our heads, (a roof that never leaks!), three tiny bedrooms...<br />
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Thank you dear husband for our beautiful home!!!!!!!<br />
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I'll try to be back soon and share a bit more of what we've been up to.<br />
Renee<br />
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P.S. So that's it, the post I wrote so long ago, the photos we took last year. Almost two and half years ago we moved to our land. One year ago moved into the cabin. It is much more finished now, but still not really anywhere near done.<br />
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Now it is Thanksgiving. Now we are somewhere else for the winter. What an interesting year it has been. <br />
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Grateful.<br />
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Love and blessings to all,<br />
Renee<br />
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Always so much to do and explore in this beautiful golden season.<br />
Wishing happy autumn days to all!!!<br />
With love,<br />
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The chickens really like it when I toss them some stalks of the going-to-seed overwintered collards.<br />
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Thanks to people (besides me) who actually pick up the camera once in a while, we have a few photos to share.<br />
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Hope you all are having a happy summer so far!!!<br />
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How do you begin writing when it has been so many months? It is as a family journal that I have most missed keeping this space, and also there are my so very dear friends that I do not like being so disconnected from them either. Although the real letter writing has been so nice.<br />
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It seems I have even forgotten how to use a keyboard well, so many typos in my first paragraph, slow going… Maybe that's how my return will be. Probably.<br />
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Elsa is of course asleep as I write this.<br />
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Elsa is maybe not really a baby anymore, if I have to say that, though I never do. She likes being a baby, but she likes being a big girl too. She says "me baker helper", and we bake bread together.<br />
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All our girls are growing. So, so much.<br />
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And three full seasons now we have made our home on our land, where good husband is building our little cabin, wood milled from our own trees, shelter for our family.<br />
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Now spring…<br />
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...renee ~ heirloom seasonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06946027766633119376noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537609822307770052.post-36708170783974067032014-09-29T10:59:00.002-07:002014-09-29T10:59:51.316-07:00summer goodbye... ..<br />
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If only I could remember to pick up the camera and take some pictures… And I am going to try to get the hang of using the internet at the library, because I do miss this space, and I do very much miss being in touch with my dear blog friends… Also I have a huge pile of day at the river photos to post, soon…<br />
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Our first day in this house (I mean <i>that</i> house!) seven years ago was on Chessa's birthday, we crossed the state line back into Colorado the day she turned 3 years old. And now she is ten, and her birthday celebration also marked the last days of our being in that<i> </i>house.<br />
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Hey, ha, we could pretend I actually got around to doing a "feeding our families" post this month. And I was going to write all about birthday cake. (No, not really.) It was a very good birthday cake, lemon with strawberry layers and lots of whipped cream.<br />
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Somehow I thought it was a good idea, in the midst of packing, cleaning, and moving, to make Chessa a doll for her birthday. There was an old doll at the antique shop that she had been quite in love with for some time. I did contemplate getting it for her if it was still there, but getting myself secretly to the antique shop would have been much more challenging than secretly stitching on this doll in the wee early morning hours.<br />
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Also, and I know this sounds kinda weird, but I had this doll head stashed away from a few years ago, and I just knew that Chessa was the one meant to love whoever this doll (head) was meant to be.<br />
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So with bald doll head already done, I started working on my first ever jointed limb doll, which was also my first ever boy doll. I don't know why I was always so intimidated with making boy dolls, especially with a simple crochet cap for his hair, it was fairly easy and fun.<br />
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I wasn't up for making a set of doll clothes though (I mean, I would have liked to, but with the whole moving out of the house thing going on, well I was trying to pretend that I wasn't really all that crazy with my last-minute doll making…) So we had Aunt Nicole get "boughten" doll clothes instead, which does have the slightly strange effect of making him look like a boughten doll, but no, he is not, he is a handmade by mama doll. His name is Billy, he is already smudged and a bit worn and very, very loved.<br />
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Moving was hard. That could probably go without saying, as it is never an easy thing to do. But gosh, could we have added more ways to complicate it? Let's add in a bit of remodeling, new bedroom floors, lots of painting. Oh, and becoming landlords for the first time, showing the house, trying to find ourselves some good tenants - that was all super not fun, but fortunately worked out well in the end.<br />
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Jason, amazing husband of mine, worked so, so hard, and did just about every single thing by himself. I recall helping move out my super heavy bulky antique sewing (secretary) desk, but other than that he was the mover. I guess he got all the other big heavy antique furniture pieces out on his own, including the second desk. I do wonder how he moved the chest freezer by himself. Hmm. I was the packer. And I kind of drove Jason crazy with my method, but wow, you would not believe how well organized and labeled those boxes and dresser drawers are. (I will explain later why it was important to have well organized and packed dresser drawers.)<br />
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Now we are gone from there, <i>that house</i>. And being gone makes me even more aware of how much trauma we suffered there. Seriously. I know I said I was going to mention it only once, but it is going to take a while to get over it. To heal. We were under attack, for so many years. You know what it was? It was bullying. Ugly, pathetic, bullying by ugly, miserable people. (Don't worry, we feel that the house tenants will be safe from these people.)<br />
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Something else that really disturbs me is that <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2014/04/house-home-land.html" target="_blank">when I came out and mentioned the situation</a> we had been dealing with here, so many other people left comments and sent emails that they too are in or have been in similar situations. Lots of bullies out there! Why??? Are those of us who choose to live in a way different than the norm so threatening to others that we must be attacked and made to suffer for our choices? We don't go around criticizing them for their (over-consuming, toxic, ignorant living) ways. But I guess all of us happy people living an authentic meaningful life are just to much for these other people to take.<br />
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Oh well.<br />
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Time to move on.<br />
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We are so, so, so ready to be settling in at the land. But we are actually not quite there yet. We had been asked to house-sit for friends traveling in Europe and so that is where we have been since the beginning of the month. We are glad to be here at our friends home, it is a happy peaceful place, filled with musical instruments, including a piano! which the girls love to play, good books, including Steiner, Waldorf, and homeschool books!, and set in what certainly must be one of the most beautiful spots in the world (we stayed here for them last summer also, you can <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2013/08/everyday-riches.html" target="_blank">see here</a> what it looks like right outside their door, although those photos don't show any of the majestic peaks of the continental divide that are surrounding us.) It is kind of funny for us to be house-sitters, and staying in a home other than ours. Us who haven't even been away from home but maybe once in the past decade. It is a nice place to be though, and we enjoy helping care for their gardens and animals, which this year also includes chickens.<br />
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It has kept us from doing that settling over at the land though. These kind friends are now closer neighbors, but still it at least a 20 minute drive over to the land. (Perhaps I should start calling it "our home" rather than "the land".) We have been spent some good days there working on the gardens, as that is of course our priority at the moment, and we are looking forward to being there permanently in another week or so.<br />
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Maybe I will come here and write/post lots over this next week while I have such convenient internet access. Although that was kind of my plan for our first weeks here and obviously that didn't happen.<br />
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Sometimes life does not go as planned. I bet you all already know that.<br />
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But life does go on, perhaps the plan is not entirely ours to make, but we can always make the best of it.<br />
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I hope you all have been having some good and beauty filled days!<br />
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With love,<br />
Renee<br />
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P.S. Oh wait! I forgot to say… well there you see my darling newly 10 year old, and no, you sure do not get even a peek of the nearly 14!!! year old… but look at sweet little baby playing with the dollies! And she was doing the softly murmuring to herself thing as she played, and my heart was thrilled!<br />
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P.P.S. Yes, she toddles, she walks and she runs, but still she is our "baby".<br />
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(Okay, beyond P.S.'s now. I didn't get this posted last week as I had planned. I find it interesting that my last post included our dear wonderful Cairo dog. And now she is not with us anymore. Many sad hearts. But she was almost 18 years and the sweetest and happiest thing to her very last moments. Our Cairo love…)<br />
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On my kitchen mind this week is…<br />
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Moving to the land and setting up an outdoor kitchen!<br />
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Spring foraging.<br />
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Packing up the house kitchen, moving to the land, setting up an outdoor kitchen.<br />
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Campfire cooking!<br />
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Setting up an outdoor kitchen at the land.<br />
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Feeding my family (from scratch, whole foods) without the use of a regular full kitchen!<br />
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Building an outdoor bread oven!<br />
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An outdoor bread oven is something that has been on our minds for years. Now is the time to get it done for real. Because as you may have figured out by now, we bake a whole lot of bread around here. (I shared <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2014/02/feeding-our-families-february.html" target="_blank">a few bread baking tips here</a>. And if you happen to have any outdoor bread baking or bread oven tips for me then I would be happy to know…)<br />
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And speaking of bread… I have been making Mel's <a href="http://ourashgrove.blogspot.com/2014/04/feeding-our-families.html" target="_blank">soaked grain bread recipe</a> and it has been turning out really great. As I predicted (to myself) it has become our everyday bread, even though it has only been about 10 days, that is already 5 batches of bread. I have the recipe memorized, I've made substitutions, turns out good every time. I have been doing 100% fresh ground whole wheat flour, usually yogurt instead of vinegar to soak, and sometimes just water instead of milk. One of the greatest things about this recipe is that I do much of the work the day before. A bowl sits below the grain mill and at some point in the day the grain will be ground, after dinner I mix up the soaker and the sponge. Then in the morning I finish up and get the dough rising in the bread pans. Simple. Bread baking has always been part of our kitchen rhythm, either way it is fairly simple for us at this point. But a bonus of this overnight soak method (besides nutritional benefits) is that we have to wait less hours for fresh bread in the morning.<br />
(In my head I call this Melanie's Wonderful Bread, which means that not only the bread is wonderful but that Mel is wonderful too. I actually usually put the emphasis on Melanie rather than on the bread…)<br />
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(The braided bread is not the soaked grain bread. It is just the plain white flour Challah that we bake for Easter…)<br />
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Well if we were going to go back to that on my kitchen mind list, it was going to continue rather repetitively…<br />
outdoor kitchen,<br />
spring foraging,<br />
outdoor kitchen,<br />
spring garden,<br />
spring foraging, spring foraging, spring foraging.<br />
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The garden may be producing only chives and green onions at the moment, but Mother Earth has greens bursting out everywhere! Dandelions, daisy greens, salsify. I'm sure lamb's quarters are sprouting up out there somewhere. If only I knew where the nettles are! (I mean, if only I knew where there were nettles nearby, as I do know of some good patches, but nothing that is not quite a hike away…) (Must get some nettle seed and start our own patch!)<br />
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Outdoor kitchen.<br />
I keep forgetting that technically there is a little camper kitchen too. Propane stove, and an oven big enough to hold bread pans, a small casserole dish, but not big enough for cookie sheets. Well there's a tip I just though of for myself! Make outdoor bread oven big enough to hold cookie sheets!<br />
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Obviously it's going to be getting more interesting here in my kitchen world…<br />
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Oh, and I plan to have a lot of fun with our cast iron dutch oven!<br />
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And on a kind of side note, it sure is nice to have shared the moving to the land news. Things where going to be feeling too awkward and vague here otherwise. Now we can continue on with the adventure…<br />
(And of course many thanks for all the kind and supportive comments and emails!!)<br />
(Phooey to malfunctioning comments, I don't know why people have such an issue with trying to comment here, maybe someday I can figure out something to help it work better…)<br />
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Happy kitchen time to you all…<br />
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Enjoy visiting my friends in their kitchens…<br />
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And so now I suppose I shall have to go ahead and tell the story, except that I am still kind of unsure of sharing it. Not all of the parts were happy, and actually this is really only just a speck of the story.<br />
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Sometimes it's easier to just not say anything, and in some ways that's what I've done with this blog over the years. Anything you see and read here is truth and real, but that doesn't mean it's everything.<br />
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I want to get this part out of the way so that we can move on to more of the good stuff, and also because I think it will allow me to go further here with more of the story, whether happy and beautiful or not. (Thankfully I know there will be a whole lot of goodness, happiness, and beauty. It's always part of it.)<br />
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So like I said, pencil and paper. I wrote this last week. I made brief mention of it here. It's my little way of tricking/forcing myself to get something done. Now I have no choice, so I'll just get on with it…<br />
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Home is not necessarily in a house. We have done very well at creating a home for our family within the walls of this house. Especially if you consider some of the difficulties and sadnesses that we have had to go through while being here.<br />
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Sometimes we joke that we accidentally bought a house. (And sometimes it is so not funny.)<br />
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Always, from the beginning, Jason and I barely past 20 years old, we were going to buy "our land". That is a whole story and dream itself, it is part of who we have always been. (Once we were even going to wait to get married until we were on our own land, and have our babies on our own land. That was about 1998, and lasted until about 1999. It's a really good thing we didn't wait!)<br />
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So it really was odd that instead of buying land we bought a house on only a ¼ of an acre in a rural mountain subdivision. Oh my gosh, sometimes it is hard to not feel some regret at not having bought the land right then. But we were faced with a move back to Colorado and somewhat overwhelmed with the need to find a home for us, our children, our pets. It kind of seemed like we needed a house. (For us that feels like such a silly thing to say!) So we would stay in the house for a couple or few years and then buy land.<br />
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Hmmm... I think I have shown and shared pretty well of the happinesses that we have had here, and I of course have been grateful about a billion times that we have a home, safe shelter, at all… but oh! has this been a hard seven years!!!<br />
(Yes, here we are now seven years into it, not just a few…)<br />
Good, great, beautiful, wonderful years, but also a lot more than that. Also a great big gigantic struggle.<br />
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(Okay, this is the one and only time I am going to mention this here, but the worst of it is that there have been very unkind people in our world since moving into this house. And unkind is not even close to the correct word. Really really really really mean, and that too is not even close to an accurate description. But I have never wanted to bring that ugliness here. It is not what we choose for our life, our world. We just unfortunately got accidentally stuck living right next door to it.)<br />
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Yuck. Okay. That's over.<br />
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(Also I will say, it's not like I have kept this a secret. Those closest to us know the story well, including some of my dearest blog friends. Melanie, Jules, Lisa, Tonya, Jeanene, thank you for your friendship and sharing and understanding and ability to somehow really know me.)<br />
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The good part of the story continues…<br />
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The land dream, the land dream, the land dream.<br />
It is still not over, someday we will get our "big land", but for now we finally have our own few acres.<br />
Our own little mountain, our own forest, our own giant fir tree.<br />
It is our home, and we are headed there right now…<br />
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(Some peeks from last year at the land <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2013/05/moments_3.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-day-in-early-april.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2013/05/first-days-in-may.html" target="_blank">here</a>…)<br />
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Thank you for letting me share our stories with you!!!<br />
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I have a story to tell. I am going to try. I think I figured out how to find my words - with pencil and paper. Or maybe pen? The pencil may fade…<br />
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(Look <a href="http://plainandjoyfulliving.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tonya</a>, she still wears her cardigan! A bit too small, but I am only just now knitting her a new one…)<br />
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Well wishes and happy day to everyone. I shall return soon…<br />
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...renee ~ heirloom seasonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06946027766633119376noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537609822307770052.post-12470254977837469182014-04-08T04:11:00.000-07:002014-04-08T04:11:19.181-07:00april feeding our families (gardening for our families!!!)..<br />
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<i>(I had myself some fun making these little collages of past garden photos…)</i><br />
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a favorite meal,</div>
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seasonal menus,</div>
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holiday food traditions,</div>
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snacks for our children,</div>
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(are your children hungry all day long?)</div>
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food sensitivities,</div>
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food fears (gmo's!)</div>
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food memories,</div>
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picky eaters (my girls like almost all vegetables. not so big on fruit. particular about sweets (chloe), don't like chocolate (chloe, and me) (thinks bacon and eggs together sounds like one of the craziest things, and especially would have no interest in eating it for breakfast)</div>
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and I imagine as we approach garden season then that might play into how we approach and express food love to our family.</div>
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and budget stuff, probably many of us face the challenge of feeding our families well on a limited budget.</div>
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Each month now I think to myself that perhaps I will take the easier, simpler approach. Though if you look back at my other posts you will see that I actually kept taking the more random, rambling approach. Hmmm, maybe that is how things will stay. </div>
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I have never felt inadequate or even slightly concerned about my blog posts until starting this project, with such a wonderful group of talented, inspiring women, most of whom are much more prolific with their blog writing than I am. Then I unfortunately had feelings like… oh gosh, what have I gotten myself into, I have nothing to share, there is a reason I never wrote much about food in the past (even if the reason is nothing more than a lacking of time) (and a lacking of photos)…</div>
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Neverthless, I really am enjoying this series so, so much (despite my occasional gasps of "oh no!", usually occurring while I am busy in the kitchen and then suddenly realize I am supposed to be photographing and writing about all this food stuff too…)</div>
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Back to the simple idea though… </div>
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Were we are at in the kitchen this week…</div>
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Shared the results of Saturday's bread baking morning with a kind neighbor. I like the way she held it close, inhaling, before carefully wrapping back up in cloth.<br />
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I don't think I can get anything else into my head other than thoughts of gardening and food growing!!!<br />
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We have trays of spring greens started… just Swiss Chard and kale for now, probably we will direct seed some spinach soon… tomatoes started indoors, a few varieties, some peppers too…<br />
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We garden for love, but also out of necessity. If we do not grow enough vegetables then really we do not have enough to eat. So while early spring is all about those good greens, we are also looking forward to getting our storage crops planted… onions, potatoes, cabbage (sauerkraut!), beets, various varieties of winter squash…<br />
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We even just had our first little garden harvest of the season! A teeny tiny bundle of chives, snipped from awakening plants, giving us a little taste of fresh green goodness!<br />
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I guess I have decided to skip the link gadget thing for now, but if you have a food post of your own to share then please do leave a link in the comments. (Did you all see that <a href="http://beautythatmoves.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Heather from Beauty that Moves</a> is doing a weekly kitchen series? All kinds of gorgeous kitchen inspiration over there!)</div>
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Enjoy visiting these lovely friends for more good food stuff...<br />
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<a href="http://ourashgrove.blogspot.com/" style="color: #9bc779; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Melanie from Our Ash Grove</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.littlehomeblessings.com/" style="color: #9bc779; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Melody from Bespoke</a></div>
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<a href="http://sarah-ourislandhome.blogspot.com/" style="color: #9bc779; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sarah from Our Island Home</a><br />
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<a href="http://plainandjoyfulliving.blogspot.com/" style="color: #9bc779; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tonya from Joyful Living</a></div>
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I try to get some specks of sewing done during my free moments. Yes, sometimes only specks at a time get done. Eventually it adds up. Making, mending, finishing, done. A new dress for Elsa. A mended dress for Chessa, who is kind of rough on her clothing. (I mean, who so loves her handmades that she wears them to pieces…) A forgotten project found. Baby bibs in progress, two are now finished (but then I had to move on to the dress. Had to. Really.) And belated photos of my finished swap items (sent way across the country to <a href="http://growingupvh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sarah in Maine</a>, and again thanks to <a href="http://sweetpotatoclaire.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Amanda</a>. And I forgot to mention my swap gifts, but the whole thing was neat and fun, and especially surprising when my package arrived from someone living only about an hour away from us (because about an hour away from us is still in the middle of nowhere) although she has now moved far far away… thanks again <a href="http://simplethingsnotebook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dawn</a>!)<br />
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Well, as much as I would love to get all chatty about sewing right now, I have a food post to be writing also. I sure didn't mean to be here so infrequently, but wow, the time just slips away! Lots of good things happening! (And that's an understatement. Some incredibly wonderful exciting things happening here!!!)<br />
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Hope the days have been happy for you, dear friends and kind readers…<br />
See you soon…<br />
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Hello again to all of our "feeding our families" friends. How fun and exciting it has been to be sharing with everyone through these first months of the year. Even if the kitchen and pantry are feeling less than thrilling at the moment. It is still winter here though, and probably that, plus garden yearning, really add to kitchen blahs? What a time to start up this project!</div>
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I am afraid I am only going to talk about cabbage. Raw,<span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small;"> </span>sautéed, fermented. It really is a very handy winter vegetable. And everyone here loves it. So yay. But I will try not to subject you to too much more cabbage-ness.<br />
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But a favorite recent lunch was sautéed onions and cabbage on toast. I think any vegetable simply sautéed and served over toast makes a good lunch.<br />
Oh, and my girls really love onion too. If I am chopping onion for a meal then they will came and take big chunks off the plate for raw snacking.<br />
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I would like to start making more varieties of lacto fermented vegetables besides the usual sauerkraut. I do not use a culture for our cabbage/sauerkraut, just whey and sea salt, or no whey and extra sea salt. Anyone else having success fermenting other vegetables, with or without a special culture?<br />
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I would also like to start doing some soaked grain baked goods. Perhaps the buttermilk biscuit recipe in Nourishing Traditions would be a good place to start. Baby Elsa has not had any grains yet and I would prefer them to be soaked to begin with.</div>
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A couple questions answered from last time…<br />
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What do we do with our cultured cream? Well, the main reason I like to have it on hand is to add some cultured probiotic goodness to our meals. I will stir it into soups or stews just before serving, or drizzle it on top of a bowl of beans. Really good with any dishes were you might use sour cream. Very similar to sour cream, just not as thick, a little less sour. Also called creme fraiche. Also good on fruit. Served on biscuits with honey. Good for baby while we are waiting for our raw milk share to begin again, as I would prefer for her to have only raw or cultured dairy.<br />
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How do we make our rye porridge? Coarsely ground, soaked overnight if I remember, cooked in three times as much water on stove top, stirring very frequently as it has a tendency to stick and burn if you're not careful. We do the same thing with other grains, barley being another favorite. We used to do a "grain of the day" (Waldorf) porridge rotation throughout the week, which is useful for menu simplifying, plus if someone isn't so fond of one grain then at least it's not coming back around for another week.<br />
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Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe<br />
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My recipes of course have to come with notes and rambling…<br />
These cookies are very rich. You can make them with other nut butters (maybe seeds too? sunflower? sesame tahini cookies?) but I warn you that then they become even more rich. Peanut is my favorite, followed by walnut (in photo) which I made recently when we were out of peanut butter. (Used hand blender to make walnut butter in a jar, worked well.) I want to try them with pecans soon.<br />
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You can make them less rich by substituting 1/4 cup of sugar for 1/4 cup of the maple syrup. But then they have sugar. We use organic sugar.<br />
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We use all organic ingredients. Always. Because we are very afraid of gmo foods.<br />
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For fats/oils in baking we use coconut oil or butter. We do not use the extra virgin super coconut flavored oil because some people here do not like coconut, and also it will change the taste of these cookies, which is fine if you like the coconut flavor, but we use the milder version, expeller pressed and organic. And organic butter, because dairy, yikes, add 100 other concerns besides gmo's to the list of reasons why we won't eat conventional dairy products.<br />
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Also I have made these with kamut flour.<br />
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1 ½ cups brown rice flour<br />
1 cup peanut butter (or other nut butter) (ours is fresh ground peanuts. do not use one with sugar added)<br />
½ cup coconut oil or softened butter (or melted and slightly cooled butter)<br />
½ cup maple syrup (careful it is not so cold that it hardens your oil/butter, but I never go so far as to actually warm it)<br />
¼ teaspoon salt<br />
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Oven at 350 degrees (F)<br />
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In a medium bowl add peanut butter, coconut oil or butter, maple syrup, and salt. Mix well. Add flour. Mix well again. The dough will be fairly wet. In general it is very forgiving. I rarely even measure the ingredients exactly, but then again I have been baking these for about 15 years.<br />
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Place tablespoon size balls (I use an actual tablespoon measuring spoon to scoop up the dough) on cookie sheet with an inch or so between them. They will not spread too much. Then make the cute little criss cross peanut butter cookie prints with a fork. If dough is too sticky then dip your fork in cold water occasionally while making the marks, no more stickiness…<br />
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Bake for 10 minutes. Let cookies cool on tray for a bit before trying to move as they will be delicate while still hot. Makes about 2 dozen-ish.<br />
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And remember, I told you that these are very, very rich.<br />
(Which is why I am leaving out the adding chocolate chips option. Jason likes them that way but it is too much for me.) (Also because I am not fond of chocolate.) (Yes, I know that is crazy.) (But also, when well cooled, and for a very special occasion, you could dip the cookies halfway in melted chocolate!)<br />
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Okay, recipe done now, in case you were wondering.<br />
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Those delicious peach tarts were made by the girls. Chloe sometimes gets consumed by the desire to bake a surprise something. I was not allowed into the kitchen at all.<br />
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And finally, after saying for more than 10 years that he wanted them, Jason made onion rings. Wow, they were really, really good!<br />
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So what is going on in your kitchen lately?<br />
It has been suggested that maybe we can do one of those linky things (like for ginny's yarn-along) so that more of you can join us in the sharing. I will look into that, but for now if you would like to then please feel free to leave a link in the comments to one of your recent food posts.<br />
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I'm so late with my post this month that perhaps you have already visited everyone else…<br />
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<br />renee ~ heirloom seasonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06946027766633119376noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537609822307770052.post-21797463712974297122014-03-03T11:19:00.001-08:002014-03-03T11:38:42.045-08:00soon… feeding our families...<br />
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Hello all… I am very much looking forward to this months "feeding our families" series with my lovely group of mama friends, but it will probably be a day or so before I get my post done. Not that it is anything spectacular, I am just lacking time for the computer lately (always? lacking motivation to be at computer? always.) </div>
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I will share a really yummy cookie recipe with you when I return. It is even vegan, gluten-free, sugar free, etc… You can consider it a kind of apology to all my gluten-free friends for all the yeasted wheat bread I post about.</div>
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Previous "feeding our families" posts with links to participating friends are <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/search/label/feeding%20our%20families" target="_blank">here</a>…<br />
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And beginning this month we will have <a href="http://www.shivayanaturals.com/2014/03/feeding-families-basics.html" target="_blank">Heather </a>here as well, which makes me very happy, and will surely be very beautiful and delicious… (I may even read her post before I finish mine, which goes against the rule I made up for myself about finishing my post before visiting everyone else...)</div>
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renee ~ heirloom seasonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06946027766633119376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537609822307770052.post-65885774805265247762014-02-26T05:24:00.000-08:002014-02-26T05:24:19.521-08:00bits of makings...<br />
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I told you she loved her little book! Loved to pieces, it has now been taped and glued back together, will hopefully stand up to more kisses and cuddles.<br />
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Do you know Piecework magazine? It is a love of mine. I first came across it at a california bookstore when I was in my early twenties (age determined by the date of my first issues which are from 1996) I carried around my few precious copies for years and years, somehow never thinking to see if the magazine continued publishing more wonderful issues. Then a few years ago I happened upon such an exciting find, a whole stack of free back issues!! Since then more old copies have been collected (I think most back issues are now archived digitally and only available that way, which I have no interest in, so I seek out used print copies…)<br />
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Handwork and history, old photographs, inspired projects. The Ellis Island issue in the photo is Chloe's favorite. Perhaps I can show peeks of the magazine over time, there is so so much to love…<br />
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Oh, and another special thing is my current knitting project, a cardigan for myself. <a href="http://thebrownstitch.com/patterns/adult/crocus-cardigan/" target="_blank">Crocus</a>, but plain, no stripes, long sleeves, buttons all the way down the front. I am maybe 2 inches below the arm dividing. I have no idea if this sweater will be finished spring, summer, autumn? No matter when, the weather around here is almost always suitable for cardigan wearing. The cardigan I have been dreaming of knitting forever... (probably since around the same time as my piecework magazine discovery, california thrift shops, a hooded orange cardigan, with pockets, it was so perfect, and very likely the time when the seeds of knitting dreams where planted in my mind…)<br />
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(I just did a quick search and see that <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2011/07/yarn-along-cardigans-and-vintage-book.html" target="_blank">I have mentioned that thrifted orange sweater before</a>, and it didn't have a hood, I just wished it did.) (Only one out 4 cardigans that I have knitted ended up with a hood…)<br />
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Other bits of making…<br />
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Fun sewing for my swap match (joined <a href="http://sweetpotatoclaire.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Amanda</a>)…<br />
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And!!! Tiny cabin making!!! (Or starting at least…)<br />
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There is no need to apologize for posting excessive amounts of baby pictures on ones own blog, is there? I hope not…<br />
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~ Joining friends <a href="http://frontierdreams.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Nicole</a> and <a href="http://www.gsheller.com/" target="_blank">Ginny</a> ~<br />
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Wide open doors in the middle of February. There was one recent week were it snowed for days in a row, yet melted so quickly that it never left more than a few inches on the ground. Only thin patches of crusty white in the shadiest places. Yesterday was nearly 60 degrees!<br />
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We had ourselves a little craft project for valentines day. Did you know that I am not at all crafty? Nope. Just handwork-y. My instincts always have me putting all paper into recycling. If it wasn't for <a href="http://ourashgrove.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Melanie</a> I probably would have never given my girls such freedom with paper and scissors during their childhood (thank you Mel) (but oh, all those scraps!)<br />
But I sure did feel clever for this crafty little idea of mine. I do realize that cutting out hearts is nothing original, but I like our seed catalog take on it…<br />
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I love this second photo, our adorable little Elsie. I have no idea when the photo was taken or what was going on. (Please just ignore the dirty corner with the dog water bowl and cinnamon (don't ask) sprinkled all over the wall.) She seems to be enjoying herself though.<br />
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She also enjoys pulling the blankets up and tuck herself in under the covers. Unless it is actually really bedtime, then half asleep she adamantly kicks them all off.<br />
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And now we are weaving. Somehow weaving is something we have never gotten around too (I wove a few small pouches many years ago before having children, but not since then…)<br />
Especially in the autumns I always think we will perhaps begin with some weaving (there are lots of nice mother earth weaving autumn type nature stories) but never has it happened.<br />
And sometimes I have felt bad about that (hmm, not something worth worrying over though) and wondered why.<br />
But now I know why…<br />
Because my 13 year old daughter needed a new handwork activity to inspire her.<br />
She has been stitching with needle and thread since she was kindergarden age, knitting since 1st grade, recently she has been sewing her own clothes on the sewing machine. But she is not always "in the mood" to do those things lately. Often she is, but sometimes she is seeking something different. And so now we have weaving. Hooray. And I feel just right about having waited all these years…<br />
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….renee ~ heirloom seasonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06946027766633119376noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537609822307770052.post-1464701604660341102014-02-09T17:23:00.004-08:002014-02-09T17:25:14.957-08:00just because.....<br />
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Reminiscing - February 2011 - Originally posted <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2011/02/winter-midway.html" target="_blank">here</a>… And it seems the same winter scenario applies...<br />
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February is here! We have made it halfway through winter! And while it is dumping snow on just about every part of this country, here we are in our Colorado mountains, at 7000-8000 feet, and we have just had only our second real storm of the winter. If you can even call it a storm, barely more than a few inches of snow, when in other years it would not be unusual for us to have at least several feet of snow by now, if not much more.<br />
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It leaves me feeling a bit confused, almost like it's no season in particular. However, it is super super freezing quite often, so I guess there is really no doubting it is still winter.<br />
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The girls are always up for outdoor adventures, no matter what the season.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMOOTXdRcUe72OYxTGDWh4dobftIRW64fkItQ2KZCe3rAETxN8Z-2-tHM3fEiI-WJU8tCMrf9U8ou7EGDgtMDxk-8ku9KjZA7XTy6hgRkoJKUmoMr6re0QWWNDtXFNsr98PYOkItPDgU/s1600/DSC00146.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMOOTXdRcUe72OYxTGDWh4dobftIRW64fkItQ2KZCe3rAETxN8Z-2-tHM3fEiI-WJU8tCMrf9U8ou7EGDgtMDxk-8ku9KjZA7XTy6hgRkoJKUmoMr6re0QWWNDtXFNsr98PYOkItPDgU/s400/DSC00146.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569665936284267218" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>This day they set out on a picnic...<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrWhBfs0kTkgjqflPAqgJGf-NcwHgDYY0Ui0AlnjLkKYMp6_NT59qXwZ4sBBAL3uyK8gaxWF6cpZlNtvrAPDYiIVFjakS_gHr7r-GRd_qhhjMtbUPqMK8I-bESgXA22AcxjRHjN9nx7rY/s1600/DSC00150.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrWhBfs0kTkgjqflPAqgJGf-NcwHgDYY0Ui0AlnjLkKYMp6_NT59qXwZ4sBBAL3uyK8gaxWF6cpZlNtvrAPDYiIVFjakS_gHr7r-GRd_qhhjMtbUPqMK8I-bESgXA22AcxjRHjN9nx7rY/s400/DSC00150.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569665930374341890" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 376px;" /></a>Seeking just the right spot, which was beyond the snow on a sunny stone wall...<br />
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They said they were going to stay outside the whole entire day. But after about 10 minutes they came in. They said they missed me too much and wanted to come be with me :)<br />
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And now we begin the new month. I guess I don't really have a Brigid or Candlemas post this year. We did have a nice day, perhaps most memorable part being the wonderful Brigid stories we shared together. (Here is my <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-candlemas-day-be-fair-and-bright.html">Candlemas post</a> from last year, you see we do so love Brigid...)<br />
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I always look forward to these special days in February, we sure can all use some extra joy and fun to help get us through the last long stretch of winter. (I pretend that it won't be too long...)<br />
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Hope everyone in the snowy lands finds time to enjoy some nice coziness!<br />
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So yes, I thought it would be nice to have these monthly conversations about food. I could talk about food forever (as long as I took breaks to talk about sewing, knitting and books once in a while…) (gardening talk would count as food talk…) Apparently though I am not much good at writing about food.<br />
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I thought I might keep some food and kitchen notes throughout the month in preparation for this next "feeding our families" post, but all I ended up with was this…<br />
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monday kitchen 1-13<br />
made granola in the morning, beans soaking and then cooking in the crockpot, cream culturing on the counter<br />
dinner - leftover elk stew (simple and delicious, baked low in oven) served over mashed potatoes<br />
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thursday kitchen 1-30<br />
next batch of cultured cream into the fridge<br />
must bake bread this morning<br />
looking for a pumpkin pancake recipe - discovered we have lots of pumpkin and eggs at the moment<br />
broccoli soup?<br />
wondering if jason took the elk steaks out of the freezer last night, will check soon<br />
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enjoying the jar of apple butter that we opened this week (also from freezer) - so so delicious, yummier than I remembered it being when we made it - this must have something to do with the fact that it is autumns goodness spooned onto fresh baked biscuits in the middle of winter…<br />
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Yes, I make cultured cream often these days. No, we do not always have venison for dinner.<br />
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Back to today…<br />
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I read <a href="http://heirloomseasons.blogspot.com/2014/01/feeding-our-families.html" target="_blank">my food post from last month</a> and noticed I said we don't eat rice very often. But now we just ate rice and beans three nights in a row! I made a huge batch of Anasazi beans in the crockpot the other day. Two quart jars full went into the freezer. For the first night I made some spanish rice and we served the beans over it with spinach and corn. The second night it was the same ingredients layered in a dish with cheese and baked in the oven. Last night the last of the casserole was served with roasted sweet potatoes. You can imagine how happy my family is that the rest of the beans were put away in the freezer. I think the leftover rice is bound for the freezer too.<br />
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I never made the pumpkin pancakes. They sounded too sweet. We even skipped our usual "pancake sunday" because no one seemed in the mood for them. I did make pumpkin muffins though and they were super yummy. Still a little too sweet and I will do less sugar next time, maybe just a mix of molasses and maple syrup.<br />
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I am just about at a loss as to what to feed my thirteen year old daughter, who hardly wants to eat a thing these days. I mean, she does want to eat, she is hungry, but there is not a single thing that "sounds good", or sometimes something even sounds particularly unbearable. Kind of like how Chessa can now be nearly in tears at the though of having to swallow another bite of yet another bowl of oatmeal. (At least it took her five years or so to get tired of morning oats…) (And Chloe still likes oatmeal well enough, but now only sometimes…)<br />
It seems like one answer to this issue would be to just take/keep matters in my own hands and serve up a good meal for her, hope she will eat it, which she likely will, cause she always does, this is how dinner is, but throughout the day…<br />
I need to get better at lunches...<br />
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Today is quinoa porridge for breakfast. Much preferred over oatmeal lately. I love quinoa, but not sweet with honey how the girls like it. Rye is one of my favorite porridges…<br />
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Menu planning… I only menu plan about half the time! Just saying that makes me wonder how following a plan only half the time could possibly be a good idea. Hmmm. I do always have meals planned ahead of time, I just don't necessarily always know which night of the week we will have which meal…<br />
More thoughts on all that later though...<br />
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I have considered sharing some of our bread recipes here before - one of the main things that stops me is that we live at about 7,000 feet, and altitude definitely affects some aspects of baking…<br />
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So how about a few little bread baking tips for now…<br />
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1. Bake bread - if you haven't but want to, then just go for it. You can definitely do it. Probably! For example, my mother may not be able to bake bread ;)<br />
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2. Use really really hot water when proofing your yeast. The only times I have had bread not work out well was when I didn't have the water/liquid hot enough. I use super hot water from the tap, as hot as it gets. The only time I have had my liquid too hot was once when heating milk, I killed the yeast.<br />
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3. Butter and honey!!! This is a more recent discovery of mine. For more than 10 years I baked our bread with only flour, yeast, sugar, and water. But adding fat and honey makes such a difference! The honey is just a few tablespoons in place of the organic sugar used when mixing the yeast. Then I cut thin slices of butter and let them melt in the hot yeast water. The bread is more moist, slices easier, and keep longer. And it's more delicious!<br />
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4. Knead well, for at least 10 minutes, and then an extra 5 if you can. You can feel the difference when you get to that 10-15 minute point.<br />
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5. If you are rushed and anxious for fresh bread you can shape your loaves and do a single rise. The bread will not rise as much or be as light as bread made with two proper risings, but it will still be very good.<br />
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6. If your oven should ever happen to suddenly break while you have bread dough risen and ready to bake (which I really hope it does not) then you can roll all your dough out into flat breads and bake them in a skillet on top of the stove. So you see, a broken oven can be a blessing in disguise, otherwise we would have never discovered how delicious yeasted flatbread can be! You could also try this out without the broken oven part happening first...<br />
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7. Consider setting an extra ball of dough aside for other uses… pizza, calzones, cinnamon rolls! I have finally caught on to the convenience of homemade pizza night…<br />
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And that's certainly enough food rambling for now…<br />
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Outside my window… Snow finally falling, gently, and only sometimes, but maybe more soon…</div>
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I am thinking… That it is kind of strange to be doing this in the middle of the day, and I do want to get to my knitting. Not that I am letting myself be rushed. I guess it is probably because Elsa is napping and I of course feel like she could wake any moment…</div>
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In the kitchen… baked bread this morning that wasn't our usual recipe</div>
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I am wearing… light green/cream plaid top (I have actually made two shirts from this fabric over the years) and the brown/green vintage fabric wrap skirt I sewed myself for my birthday a few years ago. I wonder if I am always wearing something plaid when I do these posts…</div>
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I am creating… so many things in my mind, you know, like a list of all the things I want to/hopefully will make some day… never-ending sewing, pretty things for home, and necessities, clothing for children, warm woolens, tidy corners. I get bits of all these things done, there is some progress, the list will always grow, I like all these things very much...</div>
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I am going… Staying home at the moment. We were all out twice last week, which is quite a lot for winter. It was nice though. A day at the land. A small visit with a friend another day.</div>
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I am wondering… What my bigger girls are doing. And I think it probably has something to do with music. And perhaps scissors and fabric or pencils and paper on the side… </div>
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I am reading… Bedtime story with Chessa every night, while getting Elsa settled to nursing and sleep.</div>
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I am hoping… I mentioned it in my last post… I am hoping lots of snow comes soon, all of February would be just fine, and not too much in March or April please… (I keep trying to be polite about it…)</div>
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So many things.</div>
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Elsa. One year olds very much get around the house.</div>
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while I knit, and many other times of the day. It is one of my favorite things to do.</div>
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<a href="http://plainandjoyfulliving.blogspot.com/2014/01/martin-luther-king-jr-and-nonconformity.html" target="_blank">Tonya</a> shared a passage from Martin Luther King, Jr. earlier in the month, which Jason and I read together, ending with…</div>
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"<i style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace;">The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. ...... In his essay "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote, "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave."</i></div>
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Well now Chloe is here so I can't concentrate so much. But hey, she is one of my favorite things!</div>
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Brigid's day! Candlemas!</div>
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A peek into my day… I had these photos collected already. I wasn't really planning on doing this <a href="http://thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Simple Daybook</a> post right now, but had recently been thinking of trying again to do it throughout a whole year. And now here we are at the very end of January! So...</div>
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