This morning I harvested the rest of the potatoes from the high tunnel and cleaned out a squash trellace. I replaced it with some yard long beans. Besides what the guineas got to yesterday I have a full row sprouted of bush beans! Speaking of the guineas they will now stay confined for the next 6 weeks since we put some babies in the hen house and went them to acclimate before they are released. One poor guinea has a broken leg that I noticed today. I'm not sure what we are going to do about that... maybe she'll be dinner...
I went over to market and got a bunch of onions and carrotts at the Walker farmstall and had a conversation about bananagrams, which I hadn't expected. I then headed over to Amelia's stall at Wee Farms. I set up a time with her to visit her farm next week and work for her. I'm excited to see what she has. It is a 6.5 acre farm that she rents. All she had left to sell were quinces and flowers so I didn't come away with much from market. I'm going to try to get there much earlier next week before everything is gone.
I headed over to Mellow Mushroom and treated myself to gf pizza and relaxed as I read my book. I think I laughed a bit too loud a few times. Good thing there was no one in the restaurant, a common thing in this area. But I'm saying, this book is hilarious. I can't wait to tell you all about it when I'm finished. As I was reading I couldn't get this orange pound cake I had experimented with a couple months back out of my head. I had a bunch of oranges and a bunch of gf flours that were about to go rancid so I had to do something. I thought and searched high and low on the internet and then went back to the basics, cookbooks. Ina Garten, if you don't already know, is one of my favorite cooks. I love how she prefeces every cookbook with a long story of her love of food, entertaiment and her husband. It gets me in the mood to read her work. I found an orange loaf cake in her cookbook that I thought I'd try. I had to experiemnt to make the cake gluten free since the flour equivilancy doesn't match up and I always substitute at least half the sugar for an alternative such as honey, agave, applesauce etc. On the first try it became irresistable and I finished a whole cake quicker than I'd like to admit. I put a glaze on half of it but decided it wasn't necessary for it was too much orange and far too sweet. So, what did I do after lunch? Ran to the grocery store and got gf flours and oranges!!
Curious--I'm having orange cake for dessert tonight. Don't know if its GF, found it in the freezer, and your mom is 1800 miles south of here. So, I'll take my chances, but instead of "glaze" I've topped it with strawberries and blueberries. Before that I made a potato hash (including peppers and onions) with all ingredients from the garden. Chicken, too, but that from Wegmans so the girls are safe. We may be 1000 miles apart, but it seems we're tracking.
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