I can’t believe it’s taken me almost a full year to post about our pumpkins! Last year, we were pleasantly surprised to find sugar pumpkins growing in our back pasture. We harvested three, and I was able to use two of them, despite having a kidney transplant in October! (The kids used one to make …
One of our favorite summer desserts is strawberry shortcake. Sometimes I just buy the little round pound cakes, but angel food cake is sooooo much better! Unfortunately, it seems that the whole town had the same thought on the 4th, so our one little grocery store was completely out of angel food cake–both baked and …
Growing up in a small town, we often joked about locking car doors in the summer. Not to keep people out…but to keep the zucchini out! We are having a wonderful zucchini harvest this year, and, yes, we have given our fair share away! I have also made zucchini bread, frozen shredded zuchini to make …
We have an enormous (more than two stories tall!) apricot tree that has produced the most amazing apricots for us for the two years we’ve lived here. Since the tree is so old, I have been researching ways to propagate it. I know we can just buy new trees, but there’s something about helping this …
Picking mulberries with my brother and sister is one of my favorite childhood memories. We would head over to my mom’s friend’s house and pick berries until our fingers (and our lips) were stained purple. (Apparently, you can remove the mulberry stains by crushing unripe mulberries!) We are so blessed to live next door to …
