It's not paying the rent but it's still of value.
Showing posts with label marmalade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marmalade. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2014
Winter citrus
It's not paying the rent but it's still of value.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Bastille Day
Big Fun at the Cal Expo State Fair again this year! of all the things I saw this weekend, I am especially taken by two pieces. Lynn Dau's "Endless Possibilities" (left) and Faye Schoolcraft's "Jackson Pollack's Ideal Woman" (right).
And I spent a bit of time in the kitchen making lemon marmalade (27C) and salted lemons (4 tall jars on the left in the photo). Many thanks to the homegrown source and conversation that came with it.
TdF update: another 12g carded and spun for the RUSTIC series.
Also - another installment of a written piece drafted. I now look forward to first drafts.
And the Zimmerman acquittal disturbs me greatly. Young ones of color are not safe. Trayvon Martin could have been my son. In conflict, the presence of guns throws off any sense of balance. Maybe it's Florida which generally seems off-kilter to me, but I don't understand this verdict at all.
And I spent a bit of time in the kitchen making lemon marmalade (27C) and salted lemons (4 tall jars on the left in the photo). Many thanks to the homegrown source and conversation that came with it.
TdF update: another 12g carded and spun for the RUSTIC series.
Also - another installment of a written piece drafted. I now look forward to first drafts.
And the Zimmerman acquittal disturbs me greatly. Young ones of color are not safe. Trayvon Martin could have been my son. In conflict, the presence of guns throws off any sense of balance. Maybe it's Florida which generally seems off-kilter to me, but I don't understand this verdict at all.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Putting up
Wintertime has its own seasonal events, some nicer than others.
The more pleasant stuff I put up with includes...
...local hand-picked persimmons.
A little something to go with 5 pounds of those fresh persimmons? Add 1/4 tsp ascorbic acid per pint.
Yield: 5 pints brandied persimmons.
20% tithed to the tree's owner.
...and local hand-picked kumquats. Really big ones! at least twice the size of those at the market.
Lots of time and patience is needed to slice and seed them. I let them soak for at least a day, then add lots of sugar.
Yield: 10C marmalade.
30% tithed to the tree's owner and family.
...local hand-picked persimmons.
Yield: 5 pints brandied persimmons.
20% tithed to the tree's owner.
Yield: 10C marmalade.
30% tithed to the tree's owner and family.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Warmth
Something about the color, I think.
Whether it's from mutant-kumquat-sour-orange citrus that gets made into marmalade.
(8C peels+juice+water + 2C water. Add equal volume of sugar, of which 20-25% is turbinado/demerara sugar. Total yield is 10C.)
...or it's AVFKW's Slick in Transnational Fury that flows through my hands...
...and gradually turns into Ysolda's Angostura.
(8C peels+juice+water + 2C water. Add equal volume of sugar, of which 20-25% is turbinado/demerara sugar. Total yield is 10C.)
...or it's AVFKW's Slick in Transnational Fury that flows through my hands...
