by Sue Schlabach | Aug 28, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Chickens, Eating and Cooking, Family, Farm Life, Garden, Recipes, Summer, Vermont
Tonight’s dinner of braised root vegetables was seasoned with bouquet garni—a pleasing little bundle of parsley, thyme and bay. We ate the sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets over gnocchi, drizzled with the pan juices, butter, and chopped herbs. The wind picked...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 26, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Eating and Cooking, Family, Farm Life, Friendship, Garden, Local Food, Summer
Oh E.B. White. You came to mind immediately yesterday. A day so long and multi-faceted that my memory of it now breaks it into chapters. More of E.B. White to come. Stay with me. Chapter 1 12:15 a.m. Lights out. We’ve just finished watching the sad and slightly...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 24, 2012 | Autumn, Creativity, Design, Handmade, In the Studio, Natural World, Sewing, Summer, Vermont
This is what late August feels like-misty and chilly when we wake up. Our view is eclipsed by clouds that sit on our hilltop obscuring everything a few feet beyond the windows. I am out in the studio at 7 am and the sun just broke through the fog. Outside me door jays...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 15, 2012 | Creativity, Eating and Cooking, Garden, Local Food, Recipes, Summer
Hey it’s hot, so sauté the watermelon. My brother-in-law first suggested this to me a few years ago. I wasn’t convinced that watermelon would cook into anything but a wet soggy mess. I was never so happy to be wrong. It’s similar to my earlier belief...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 10, 2012 | Family, Natural World, Summer, Vermont
I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania where summers were hot and muggy. When a thunderstorm rolled in I loved to sit on the porch swing watching sheets of rain pour down off the roof, with the lilacs 15 feet away becoming a mere shadow of themselves through...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 2, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Garden, Summer, Vermont
….I had a lot of things on my mind (as the song by The Band goes). This morning started at midnight when my alarm clock went off. Apparently we had a blip of a power outage last night and it set my alarm back to 12:00 a.m. I—mercifully—got back to sleep without...
