The Barefoot Kitchen Witch

Julia in Concert

 

Julia's got an on-again/off again love for her guitar. 

Lately, the love's been on. 

And so last night, during our leisurely dinner cooked in the fireplace, she unzipped her guitar case and set up her sheet music.

I love watching my kids play guitar. 

Their hands move confidently and with growing grace.

The look of concentration on their little faces is so like their father's....

Flour Tortillas

I cleaned a whole bunch of bags of chicken and turkey carcasses, beef bones, pork bones, and assorted meat trimmings out of the freezer earlier this week.  We need to make room in there, at least, we hope we do.  We may or may not have a really good reason to need space.  So, in case all goes as planned (I’ll tell you after – don’t want to jinx it), we’ve been eating from the freezer as much as we can.

Rhode Island Red Hot Sauce

Some time back in December, through a rather serendipitous chain of events which I will explain in a later post, I received three carefully wrapped bottles in the mail.

Hanging On

Some days I feel like I’m drowning.

And as someone who nearly drowned once upon a time, I know what that feels like firsthand. 

The not being able to breathe, the fear, the panic…and the fighting against all of that, through it all, to get back to the surface and gulp air deeply and gratefully…it’s a very familiar feeling.

And on days like that – actually, early, early, dark-of-night mornings like that when I wake up and can’t get back to sleep again – I search for things that might hold me up while I fill my lungs with air and wait for the tight feeling in my chest to subside.

And sometimes those things are as simple and unexpected as little hands with small blue-painted fingernails dotted in white.

The Recipe Page

 

 

It's back.

Changed, condensed, and without images, because they just took up too much space and were forever moving to spots I didn't want them in.

I've spent a bunch of time organizing these links to recipes and processes, and I'm still not completely sure I'm happy with the flow of the whole page, but I just wanted to get it out there and available for anyone who was interested in browsing.

There's a button/link thingy for it over in the right-hand column.

And now that I've finished that little project, I've got to head into the kitchen.

Today, I'm making stocks, sandwich bread, banana bread, a couple of dinner pie/quiche/tart things to freeze, more stuffies, and possibly some flour tortillas.

I think that's everything.

Field Trip!

We took a little road trip today to Wetherfield, CT to visit Comstock, Ferre & Co. to buy heirloom seeds for this year’s gardens.

We’ve wanted to go for a while now, and I’m so glad we went!

Winter Has Arrived!

We got a couple of inches of light, powdery snow overnight. 

So pretty….