Posted in Caltech, Food, Local food, Olive oil, Olives on November 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Last week Caltech harvested its campus olives and sent them off to be pressed into olive oil.
Olive harvesting
Trees in the lineup
More links:
Caltech Olive Harvest Festival website
Cook and Nifty Wench: Olive Harvest
Tableau Vivante: EVENT: CalTech Olive Harvest Redux…phew
Posted in Cupcakes, Free wireless, Miscellaneous, Office hours, San Gabriel Valley coffee shops, San Gabriel Valley hangouts on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Boo! This is Gavin posting that we’re having office ours at Wheatberry today from 10:15 or so until noon-ish. They have wireless. I’ll be hacking.
Posted in Figs, Food, Gardens on September 8, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Backyard fig
Our neighbor has a fig tree, and a few branches hang over our fence. Today some friends came over to pick figs from our side of the fence, and it was discovered that figs dried on the tree (like this one) taste like Fig Newtons.
Posted in Cooking, Farmers' market, Food, Neighbors on June 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Erin and Superspark came over on Saturday to make preserves. Superspark brought plums from her apartment complex and Costco, and we went over to the Pasadena farmers’ market for strawberries and apricots.
Sugar
Stirring
Sealing
Picture taking
Post production photo shoot
Preserves
Posted in Community Supported Agriculture, Food on June 23, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Tierra Miguel is a Community Supported Agriculture foundation — a CSA — that grows certified organic produce locally and delivers to Pasadena and other places in Southern California. Members pay a monthly fee and receive a box of the CSA’s produce every week or every other week.
A friend invited me to come with her to [...]
Posted in Farmers' market, Food on June 3, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Apriums
Posted in Farmers' market, Produce on May 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tableau Vivante has some great pictures posted from this morning’s Farmers’ Market. One of the farms is selling apriums, and the way she describes them is making me salivate.
Posted in Food, Neighbors, Pasadena bloggers' picnics on May 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here are a few more pictures from the bloggers’ picnic:
Miss Havisham’s deviled eggs
Chez Shoes’s shoes (lighting advice for this photo provided by The Blurry Lens)
Also, Erin shared the cooking instructions for the mint cream filled cupcakes she brought (pictured below) on her blog.
Posted in Coffee shops, Grapes, Hangouts, Peet's, Roses on May 5, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Roses and grapes growing in front of Peet’s
Posted in Food, Recipes on April 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This recipe is adapted from Mark Bittman’s “White Beans, Tuscan-Style” on page 509 of How to Cook Everything. As Mark Bittman notes, great olive oil makes a difference in this recipe.
Anasazi Beans with Sage
About 1/2 pound dried Anasazi beans, washed and picked over
20 fresh sage leaves, rinsed (Optional: We also like them tied into [...]
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