Figuring out first-hand food
Because I’ve spent what we’ve had of spring fretting about my garden, mishandling my seedlings, and grousing about my soil, a piece of news slipped under the radar. We bought another boat. If you’ve been following this space, you know we already had enough boats to make a raft of armada jokes possible, so you’re [...]
The list of my personal faults is long and varied. I could give you that list, but it’s always been my policy to let people figure it out for themselves. No point in handing out a roadmap. But even those who have plumbed the list’s depths (my husband, my mother, and anyone who’s ever employed [...]
For my birthday, Kevin gave me a new fishing rod. And not just any fishing rod – a seven-foot Shimano Teramar composite rod. If you’re a fishing geek, you probably know that a Shimano Teramar composite rod is an excellent fishing rod. If you’re not a fishing geek, you’ll have to take my word for [...]
Last week we went to the Cape Cod Organic Gardeners’ annual potluck. I’m surprised they still let us come, since our commitment to organic gardening lasts only until we see bugs in the collard greens, but they don’t seem to hold that against us. One of the members had brought a brochure for a workshop [...]
If you spend any time at all raking clams, you will, inevitably, lose a tine. Maybe you hit a rock, maybe just a big clam, maybe regular use loosens an imperfect weld. Tines break, and when you don’t have all your tines you can’t clam as efficiently, so it behooves you to get them fixed. [...]
Everything on our property is dirty. The eaves on the house are coated with tree crud. The siding on the shed is turning green. The armada, every boat of it, is slimy on the bottom and grimy on the top. And don’t even get me started on the cars. And, now, today, at the ripe [...]
It was back in September that Kevin decided to pound the last nail in the coffin of our urban-sophisticate image by building a chicken plucker out of an old washing machine. He acquired the machine, for free, from a very nice real estate broker in Orleans. He stripped it down to just console and drum, [...]
I thought we had every kind of saw known to man. We have manual saws and power saws, wood saws and metal saws. We have a chop saw and a circular saw and four – count ‘em, four – chain saws. We have a Sawzall, a tool with a name that we’ve discovered is not [...]
I’ve only plucked poultry once. It’s a long story involving a wild turkey and car accident, so I won’t go into it just now, but it taught me that removing feathers from birds is a tedious, time-consuming job. Since we have four turkeys and seven chickens that will eventually need plucking, Kevin has been looking [...]
I hate the sound of an engine not catching. With some engines, it’s a kind of cough. Others, a sputter. Our Land Rover does a sort of whine. The late, lamented George Carlin used to do a bit where he imitated an engine that didn’t want to start: “Leave me alohohohohohohone.” I used to think [...]
Tamar Haspel has been writing about food and health for over a decade. She recently moved from Manhattan to Cape Cod. She’s adjusting well. [Read More …]
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