Yes it is that month of the year again when its wet, it rains a lot and it gets really boring. July is just awful because it rains all month and we are virtually stuck indoors. This month we have kept ourselves out of trouble with indoor work. Gnome has been working on tiling the back veranda and I have been cleaning up the inside of the house. Because we are in the middle of everything, the place looks like a bomb has hit it. Our task is to move the indoor kitchen out onto the back veranda to give us more room to prepare and cook food. It appears that processing, preparing and eating well is central to our lives on the farm. What else is there to do!!
Today was a particularly miserable day with all day rains. There are puddles everywhere:
Oh well…since we have had copious amounts of indoor time, we have both been doing our share of creative cooking. Gnome tends to do more Italian-style slow cooking. Here are some pictures of food that we have been eating.
We are so thankful for this quiet time that we have together and extremely grateful for the delicious food that we have everyday. Thanks to the Farm for producing and nourishing us.
We had Gnome’s fresh pasta sauce with our home-made pasta:
A meal with our chocolate pasta…oooh, and our lovely ducky eggs:
The rains are really helping the vegetables grow in abundance…I can’t really complain, can I? 😉
This is one of my meals: osso buco, wild rice (sorry…not ours…but planning to grow a patch of rice in the future) and steamed greens.
Okay, I actually have lots more food pictures to show you. I will leave it at that right now. Hope that you are all have a relaxing weekend!