sorry for the blogging break

Things are chugging along as usual here at the household.  Our fridge is filled with fresh salsa that has been lacto-fermentated.  Combine that with the beets, saurkraut, and sourdough starter and the bottom half is full.  Add some milk in on herd share day and we have no room for other food!  I think it might be wise to gain another fridge, even just a college sized one for the milk and some salsa. 

We leave for vacation soon, I’ll try to blog how that goes.  We are doing Disney traditional food style (strict for the one with food issues, loosely for the rest of us.)  I have a phone number to call and they will make sure there are meals for us at the different restaurants we have reservations at.  They really have been very accomodating so far.  I hope it goes well.  We have a cooler of milk packed and ready to go for the drive.  The twins are lactose intolerant so if need be we can do rice milk, but for our oldest the raw milk is about her best option.  Hopefully we  can keep it cold enough for the journey.

Foods we have been eating lately: spaghetti squash (with some cream and garlic, yum!), salsa, salmon, roast, zucchini (anyway you can think to cook it), oh and how can I forget acorn squash with apples chopped and roasted in it with some maple syrup.  More later.

produce

Right now we have produce coming out our ears!  I read somewhere how you can turn cantelope into push-up pops…do you think I can find it?  We’ve been fermenting salsa as soon as we have enough on hand to make a double batch.  I am sure that by the end of the growing season I’ll be glad to take a few months off of peeling and chopping tomatoes.  My biggest nemisis right now is cucumbers.  I have cucumbers in the fridge, on the counter, and now a fresh batch from this weeks CSA.  Anyone have any ideas on what to do with these things?  Can I make pickles with them, relish? 

Getting ready to start homeschool up again next week, in case readers are wondering where on earth I have been.  It takes some set up and re-organization.  With little ones crawling around it has been even harder than last year.  Soon we will be up and running again (if we can dig out of the mound of cucumbers!)