Last Monday, Jacob and I toiled away in the kitchen for many many hours. He made bread while I prepared things for open-faced sandwiches.
Here is the dough being made.
Being Jacob’s protégé, I helped with kneading. It’s fun. And gets tiring. But you can build some guns in the process.
At one point, the chickens escaped from the coop, making a mad dash for the compost pile. With the help of Ronna, we wrangled them in and went back to our toiling.
Here it is! The bread was toasted in the oven. You can also see some curried eggs in the back that Jacob made.
Top: sauteed leeks, chard, shallots and swiss cheese. Bottom: fresh arugula, tomato, avocado, goat cheese. Right: sauteed mushrooms, shallots, swiss cheese. And then a curried egg. It was quite the feast.
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A Feast for the Ages
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Beer Dig
Yo! La Casa hosted a BEER DIG yesterday, which means we bribed our friends with alcohol to help get our pit ponded! Something like 40 people showed up, some of them with shovels, for a muddy-fine time digging, grunting, drinking, heaving, hoeing, and drinking.
Some La Casans went out round about 10AM to imagine a desirable curvy shape for our pit-pond to take, wiggling our garden hose and some electrical cords around until everyone ok-ed it. Maria threw down some white spray paint to make it official. “Dig here.” We made a design with two shallow, wiggly fingers and a mound in between.
In the picture above, Liya (purple shirt and fabulous overalls) stands in front of the mound and between the two fingers. You can see how high the water table had gotten from the night before! We bailed out the pit more than once, and it quickly filled back in with fresh water from the ground.
Above: Towards the end of the dig, you can see even the new fingers filled with a bit of water. The north finger is the close one, and on the other side of that soggy mound, you can see a bit of the south finger. We made a lot of progress, and we have more digging to do yet!
Anna, Brett, & Bonnie in a dramatic pic!
Above: Meanwhile, some of us worked on digging new garden beds and raising them up with soil from the pit-pond. We carried sod to the front yard to replant it in a strange patchwork under a tree, hence Vinnie with a wheelbarrow of sod.
Post-dig din: whole wheat macaroni with tomato sauce, quinoa, (leftover) delicious chili, and home-made bread-machineless bread. The sun going down, and the crowd dwindling a bit. The alcohol finally catching up with me….
And finally, as we digested our elbows and beer, we enjoyed a big-ol’ bonfire, the first of the season.
Thanks for digging with us, those of you who did! I, for one, thought it went swimmingly, pit-ponds, garden beds, soddy jigsaw puzzles, bowls of quinoa, and raging fires considered.
