Leatherstocking Tales

Saturday Morning plans

I made a Finnish sweet bread the other day called pulla, and it turned out wonderfully enough that it made up for the scorched granola and the dry rice bread.  I got the recipe for pulla out of the Sundays at Moosewood cookbook.  That cookbook was the first one I ever bought on my own.  I picked it up for $1 on a bargain table, brought it back to my little studio apartment, and attempted to make groundnut stew for my boyfriend (now my husband) and one of my friends.  It took a lot longer than I had expected, but the results were still pretty good.  In fact, I have never made anything from that cookbook that didn't turn out well.  In our vegetarian phases, it has been very helpful.

We're starting to narrow down our garden choices.  Or, rather, our garden is getting bigger every day ;-).  I'm going to try to plant okra this year.  I may be doomed to failure, as we are in the great frozen north now, but I have a craving for pickled okra and fried okra.  I would also like to grow black-eyed peas and sweet potatoes.  The Henry Fields catalog has a sweet potato they say will grow in northern gardens, so I think we'll try it.  (Can't remember offhand what the variety is.  Will have to look it up.)

Andy is on his way to the dump, which begins our Saturday routine.  Then he's going to take the kids and stake off the area for our new garden.  Before all the snow gets here and we have to wait a few more months to do anything about it.  He dug two beds last fall, but after looking at things a while, we decided that the big garden should go back of the tree line at the edge of our field, where the entire garden can be in sun for most of the day.  The problem right now is avoiding all the wet areas, where the water runs down the hill.  Drainage patterns are easily seen right now with all our snow melt, and that rain we got yesterday.