Sunday, November 22, 2009

summer tomatoes

I guess it's the crazy windstorm we had last night, but I'm thinking about our summer bounty. We had so much basil. I made a bunch of pesto and froze it.

And here are some of our tomatoes. So many tomatoes. I made batch after batch of tomato sauce and froze it.
After the 3rd or 4th batch, I burnt out. But we still have a ton of tomoto sauce in the freezer. For soups, sauces, salsa... and little summer after winter's wind storms.

Here's what the tomatoes look like now. Still so much fruit on there, rotting away. We got a little crazy planting tomato plants. Next year, only 3 or 4 plants!






Saturday, November 21, 2009

my first roast chicken

I made roast chicken about a month ago or so. Turns out that while herzog isn't into me eating meat, he loves chicken. I find this interesting because I never liked chicken much before I was pregnant.
Anyway, I decided it was time to figure out the secrets to good roast chicken. The answer, of course, was butter.
We had some rice with wild mushrooms and spinach with raisins and almonds alongside.