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Today is Food Day

Today is Food Day, so why not make some real food? It’s always a good idea, but also one that takes time. I had picked the beans a few days ago in anticipation for our first frost. Now, it’s time to do something with these beans – shell them, cook them, and then freeze them. They will be wonderful some cold winter day especially since I know that they have come from my own garden.




I have a Victory Garden from which every harvest is a small victory in food independence a concept that encourages gathering as many food calories as possible from home, local, and other sources independent from the corporate food organizations that seek mostly profits from consumers.



These beans are especially nice because they are red runner beans. I plant them because their scarlet flowers attract hummingbirds. Then, in the fall, when the hummingbirds have returned to their winter regions in the tropics, I can benefit from their pollinating service.

Green bean casserole

Green beans

Mark Bittman of The New York Times

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Dinner on table

Morning Harvest

Maxi in his hideout

There is a June when Corn is cut by Emily Dickinson

There is a June when Corn is cut by Emily Dickinson

There is a June when Corn is cut
And Roses in the Seed --
A Summer briefer than the first
But tenderer indeed

As should a Face supposed the Grave's
Emerge a single Noon
In the Vermilion that it wore
Affect us, and return --

Two Seasons, it is said, exist --
The Summer of the Just,
And this of Ours, diversified
With Prospect, and with Frost --

May not our Second with its First
So infinite compare
That We but recollect the one
The other to prefer?]

Image: Penelope Illustration. http://penelopeillustration.com/2008/04/05/indianapolis-monthly-baby-corn/

"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."
- Kahlil Gibran

"I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, 
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows 
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, 
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine: 
There sleeps Titania some time of the night, 
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight" 

Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare (Act 2 Scene 1)

Image: http://people.tribe.net/silverstream/blog/d00ad0da-5ac8-4b1d-adb3-51d5dde45977

April is the cruellest month

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering	5
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers. T.S. Eliot (1888–1965).  The Waste Land.  1922 http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ~ Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Cold February day

It's a cold, windy February day. We didn't get it as badly here in PA as they did in the rest of the country. Tomorrow promises to be just as windy as today with more snow on the way.

February is one of my favorite months because it's short. Soon, it will be over. Let March madness begin.

Cooking was good today:  peppery bacon, fried queso blanco potato pancakes, apple sauce, cole slaw, fresh bread.