State of the Garden
State of the Garden (Happy May Day)
Thanks to the farmers who come in to town, I know the people who gather the eggs and milk the goats to make cheese. Thanks to my friend Jess, who left a tub of sourdough starter on my porch Friday morning, and my inspiration to make dough to rise overnight between dinner with neighbors and going to bed, I have homemade sourdough bread. With such a fairly wet and very active chef, it was pretty successful to do a sort of hybrid of the New York Times’ no knead bread, which I kneaded, but not for 10-15 minutes, and Martha Rose Shulman’s no-yeast sourdough country bread (in Great Breads).
Vegan Chocolate Cream and Strawberry Tart for Easter Potluck
State of the Garden
This morning I went out into the back garden with my friend Tyrone, who helps me keep the rats and termites at bay. The pansies were too few even for a bud vase, and I didn’t expect to be out in the garden again to admire them before they withered, so I ate them. They remind me of wintergreen.