This was a purely "Home Economics" day.  I wonder how many schools still teach home ec?  If I could wave a magic wand schools would get rid of most computers and have kids spend time learning some real basics.  Like soil science, cultivating food, preserving food and preparing meals.  As it is now, most "schools are preparing the young generation for the high skilled, high wage jobs of the 21st century to keep American competitive and our economy strong in the global marketplace."  (Say that with Arnold's accent and try not to laugh).  

Breakfast 

I had the pleasure of spending a while at our rasberry patch this morning.

Oct 15 Breakfast

The bread is from Pheonix bakery using non-local flour with butter from Petaluma and honey from Willits.  Rasberries from our garden with goat milk yogurt from Sebastapol drizzled on top.  Black tea with Petaluma milk and Willits honey.

I was outside in the garden most of the day.  Sowed some wheat, dug up some potatoes, sorted and stored potatoes, and pressed apple and pear juice.

Potatoes get sorted into three piles:  (1) unblemished for storate, (2) damaged so eat first, (3) small so save for seed potatoes.  

The storage potatoes go into our cellar in a wood box I built and layered among straw.  I used the straw leftover after threshing the grains yesterday.

Storing Potatoes

No lunch to report today.  I did make a pot of popcorn and snacked on grapes, apples and pears from the garden.  Oh, and I had a small glass of beer and a taste of apple-pear juice.  

Dinner 

Went around and gathered from the garden for dinner too.  It just went into a pot for soup.

Oct 15 Dinner

The soup base is lamb.  Scraps from around the ribs and back, what would be bacon on a pig, are really good for this. I chop them up and they are great basic flavoring.  Veggies from the garden and include:  tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, yellow squash, garlic, onion, and black beans.  Carrots came from Covelo.  The plate on the right has mashed potatoes from our garden with butter from Petaluma.  Corn is from Covelo too.  Tomatoes from our garden.  The biscuits are another locavore experiment gone awry.  Our whole grain flour doesn't do well with standard quick-bread recipies calling for a lot of baking powder.  We need to add maybe half the baking powder called for perhaps.  They were tolerable, especially when dipped in the soup.  I drank more beer, then some water.

Kristin used the same biscuit mix with dessert.  A berry cobbler using blackberries and rasberries from our yard.  After I began eating it, she admitted using tapioca (from the tropical manihot plant) and sugar (from the tropical cane plant), but I was hooked already and kept going.  She also put Willits honey on top.

Oct 15 Dessert

I had three or four servings and wasn't struck by lightning so I guess its okay.