and I am not talking 'crock pot'...
Okay... so what do you do, when the owner of a green market encourages you to host cooking classes at your farm?
well, you guessed it... do it! This is no little project mind you — you have to get your kitchen certified and oh man — if there is any more phone calls and paperwork! It seriously has been taking over 1 year to get things going finally...
it's all about eating fresh from the garden, enjoying your kitchen, and pretty much embracing life slowly — not rushing to the store, but eating seasonally... healthier... from scratch...
I will keep you updated on this progress... but I'm so excited I can't keep it in anymore!!
Imagine! You coming to my house, and in my kitchen, to cook what we just gathered in my garden!
Oh how fun...
If you are unfamiliar with this group: Slow Food USA, please take the time to read their mission statement, and if you don't become a life member like we are, then at least listen, open your mind up to how to slow down with your food It's that glorious time of year! Planning the garden... thank God, because our freezer is pretty much exhausted from the garden — just a few packages of green beans... I actually had to go to the grocery store yesterday for the first time in 3 months -
the pantry was empty
(the above picture was right after canning... only 4 jars left of apple jelly and 1 of applesauce — dang!and no, this isn't my pantry, this is)
the freezer had only soup bones left
and if you haven't done that before — I highly recommend eating all the contents of your pantry and freezer — don't let those things go to waste... I could seriously bore you with all my organic talk... how we need to cook our own food, stop rushing around and be more slow in general — what God intended for us — but I'll spare you It's not always easy to eat like that, but trust me, it'll make you change your perspective -
All pictures from my Potager (kitchen garden) and inside my modest Farm Kitchen