Potatoes are absolutely one of the easiest things to grow and you can plant them in just about anything. For years we grew them in a series of old garbage cans that we had drilled holes in and even in a big flower pot in our old kitchen. Then we moved on to growing […]
International Soup Swapping Day! (No really)
After a holiday cookie swap we decided that although we like cookies, what really what we wanted was each other’s dinners. Within hours Shana had discovered National Soup Swapping Day, which as Canadians we have changed to International Soup Swapping. We made a facebook event and had 8 interested couples/families/groups/embryonic ninjas quite quickly. The idea […]
How to: Recycled Wool Felt Christmas Wreath
Our new wreath gets quite a bit of attention. But I have a secret, it wasn’t hard to make and it’s really just an old jacket and took one long baby nap to make. Here’s how to do it: First you need some felt. This is wreath was formerly an old wool jacket that I felted in […]
How to: Pimp that Preserve 2010
After a week off to fill a crazy amount of etsy orders, I’m back on the blog. It’s so great that so many stockings will be filled with seeds and that so many people will be growing such interesting fruits and vegetables this spring. I also had a nice mention from Cracker’s Blog in the […]
Recipe: Really Really Dill Pickles
After posting the photos of the pickles I’ll be giving to friends and family over the holidays, I realized that I never got around to posting the recipe for these great dill pickles. This recipe is adapted from the Complete Book of Small Batch Preserving Favourite Dill Pickles recipe. I doubled this recipe without any […]