Another great Locavore Wednesday!
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | Personal | No Comments
I eat myself to sleep last night. After an amazing dinner. Some quick highlights: Veggie chili, squash soup and zucchini cake (my brain exploded it was so good). After 3 helpings of food I went out to play with the kids in the backyard. After everyone left I passed out on the couch. Now time to gorge on leftovers today!
Our first Locavore Wednesday!
Friday, June 26th, 2009 | Personal | No Comments
Plate filled with local food
We had our first Locavore Wednesday! With our first basket of produce from Cold Water Creek Farms CSA we decided to organize a dinner the next day with the things we got from the basket. It was so much fun and the food was so good we decided to make it a weekly thing! This week we had zucchini bars, pasta with kale or swiss chard, grilled veggies with cheese, two types of pesto made from garlic scape, kale chips and probably some other things I have not remembered. We had four families each brining a dish or two and that made a feast. Not sure which was better the food or the excitement everyone had.
Locavores!
First basket of produce from CSA
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | Personal | No Comments
We received our first basket of produce from the membership to Cold Water Creek Farms CSA. We are so excited we have fresh swiss chard, eggplant, garlic scape, cucumbers, yellow squash zucchini, kale and patty pan squash! So now we just have to make a bunch of stuff out of it! I am going to try some pan fried squash all olive oiled and spiced up with the garlic scape. Melissa is going for swish chard recipe. Any suggestions are welcome.
Also today our neighbor took our potatoes and made potato chips out of them. Best darn potato chips we have ever had!!
Aaron Newton’s talks A Nation of Farmers
Friday, June 19th, 2009 | Personal | No Comments
Aaron Newton talks about A Nation of Farmers
Aaron Newton (of blog Powering Down and Hen and Harvest) talked about his book A Nation of Farmers. Last December I help him with his website. I just got back from a talk he gave which is an overview of the book he co wrote. He has really inspired me to keep working on our local food efforts. He is on his way to changing the world.
Patio Design Round 1
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | Leslie House, Personal | No Comments
When I got some poison ivy on my hand last weekend I had to sit out Saturday yard activities while the medication healed my hand. I could however dream up what the patio is going to look like when I get done. So I spent some time with google sketchup. Luckily I spent some time in autocad class when I was in high school and now this is really paying off.
Patio design from roof perspective
The fireplace / bbq and pizza / bread oven I took from an existing model. Mainly as place holders because I will be using different materials mainly scraps to build mine. However I needed to get the spacing right. I am also planning on surrounding most of the patio with pergola and grape vine growing up it. That is really a fall project and the patio is this summer.
Patio from the kitchen window
The other important view is from the kitchen window. Melissa wants a view of the far back yard. This is probably going to mean that the pergola can run on the right and left side of this view. And the back will need to stay open. I have some ideas on how to make this cool. Also wanted the pergola to provide some amount of shade so it is more critical for the pergola to be on the left side than the right.
Any feedback?
Melissa’s New Bike
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | Personal | No Comments
Melissa's New bike Trek 7.3
We just got a new bikes. Lateef’s was damaged in shipping but Melissa’s is here and she has been test riding it! We decide to get matching Trek FX 7.3 (Red). We where going to get 7.2 but they couldn’t get Lateef size so we decided to upgrade a bit. We are excited to get out and rideQ
Blue bullet rides again.
Thursday, June 11th, 2009 | Personal | No Comments
Was picking up some bamboo for tomato stakes with Aaron Newton when I saw a bicycle on the side of the road. We noticed they had a bunch of other stuff piled up for trash pickup. So we though it in the back of the truck and I pumped up the tires, adjusted the seat and took it for a spin. Now I have one extra cruiser..
The Blue Bullet
Another wonderful meal at the Ibis
Sunday, May 17th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Wow what a wonderful meal. For the price I don’t think there is another place withing a couple hundred miles that could compete with the Ibis. We made them a website which need a lot of work but will hopefully be better soon. With the lot of local food, organic and plenty of vegitarian food for mj we wish we could go there more often.
Concord Greeway is awesome (Charlotte eat your heart out)
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
We went on a run on the greenway that start in downtown Concord early this morning. It isn’t officially open there is still some heavy equipment out there but it is pretty much fully usable. What a great place to run!
Blog software updated
Monday, May 11th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
After having some issues with the blog software Lateef thought hey maybe I will update the software and WOOT! Everything is working much better now. Can write blog post again!