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Archive for February, 2009

Have I shared our family favorite bread recipe with you? As with most of my recent baking favorites it comes from King Arthur’s recipe section and is called Honey Wheat Black Bread.

I found this recipe when I was looking to duplicate a bread that we had picked up that the local grocery store (they carry local products). Apparently the bakery that makes the bread went out of business or something and I was horrified.

The recipe makes 3 very soft delicious dark brown loaves. I omit the coffee and substitute molasses. I also add a teeny bit of flour to compensate. Since I’m using the bread machine to mix I can watch the dough to see how much more flour to add.

Enjoy ~ Honey Wheat Black Bread

Technically this could be a very long blog post. There is just so much information. But I will try to stay on point, make it short, and just set you up with good links.

This year I have decided to grow all of our vegetables in containers. There are a number of reasons but I won’t go into them.  I’ve heard you can do quite well in containers and since I had good success with the in ground garden I’m always up for a challenge.  So my Peanut and I have started the process.

We ordered our seeds from Seed Savers.  If you don’t know about them they are non-profit group of gardeners who share heirloom seeds. You can become a member or just buy from them. My very good friend is a member but I just bought from them without becoming one. I have to see how well I do first. It’s been a while since I did actual food gardening.

We purchased 3 kinds of tomatos, onions, potatoes (yes I’m going to try potatoes in a pot but they won’t come until fall), garlic (same as potatoes fall), corn (yup), lettuce, carrots and cucumbers.

We are using these Jiffy Greenhouse little pot things to start our seedlings. I thought about making some from newspaper and all that but at this stage of life I just need to get the job done so I bought these.

We have planted the tomato and onion seed.

Next we will be ordering our pots.

There are these new fangled pots out there for container gardening. The first ones we heard about were these. Then we saw the Earthbox and thought that was nifty. Yes it is expensive but you get the dirt too. And finally I opted for a combination of these and these.

Even though I took pictures of the seed starting I don’t think I will post any until we get the box stuff happening.