Month 2 of Married Life

Here are some of the events in our second month of married life. We lost our beloved furry child. Mr. White disappeared on April 11th, 2012. It’s been hard dealing with our loss and we both admit we still think about him all the time and believe he may still come home. But after a while of him being gone, the house felt too quiet so we adopted kittens as you know. We made a trip up to Hartsville to celebrate our nephew’s 6th birthday. Owen, we love you but somehow it’s always blasty hot on your big day. I’ve written about 80% of my thank you notes...

Around the Garden

It seems like it wasn’t too long ago that we first planted our garden… But wow, it’s really developed in just a few months. I thought I’d give a picture update about our progress as well as show you the planter we bought for the front. Phil’s dad Peter kindly donated his efforts into picking out the flowers that would fill the planter. He did such an amazing job on the arrangement and that’s even grown since he first planted it a few weekends ago. On 4/28/2012 - Here’s the planter when Peter put it in. That same day I took some...

Kittens

Maybe I haven’t mentioned it on the blog yet, but we adopted kittens. Two brothers to be exact, from the local shelter. We adopted them on April 30, 2012. They have already brought so much happiness and laughter to our lives. We’re so happy we could adopt them together because they really are great companions to each other and provide endless play time, sleepy time, and general encouragement to try new things. Love em! Introducing Gizmo Teddy Rix (named after the gremlin and Teddy Roosevelt) and Captain Frederick Wentworth Rix (named after Lindsey’s...

Pre-Honeymoon in Charleston

I never had a chance to talk about our pre-honeymoon stay downtown Charleston after our wedding. We’re doing our official honeymoon in Spain in early 2013 but we did spend a great couple days together enjoying our new titles – husband and wife. Right after the wedding, which I will maintain that car showed up way too early, we planned to stay downtown for a couple nights. But first, how did the reception go by that fast? I still had a lot of dancing and talking to do but such is life and what people told me would happen at your wedding. We really could not have...

Planning Our Farm Fresh Meals

Wow, weeks go by fast in our household and before we know it, it’s time to pick up another bag of our goodies from our CSA. I haven’t posted a list and pictures every week but we continue to get wonderful spring vegetables and quite a variety. We even received fresh dill last week. Farm fresh beets were wild when we sliced them and created a root vegetable medley. I didn’t know they had rings inside! When we took this cabbage out of the bag, it was so big. The one we received yesterday was even bigger. This one was funny to me because the outside leafs...

Let’s Start from the Very Beginnin...

A month ago, it started with a few seeds. A first for me. Every year I try something new in the garden. This year it was learning how to grow from a seed set. We planted poblano, jalapeno, and anaheim peppers. We planted a few san marzano tomatoes. And, we also grew herbs – cilantro, thyme, sage, and lavender. The peppers did really great as you can see below. The herbs and san marzano did okay but two – sage and lavender – never took so we re-seeded. We gave the san marzano to his dad so I’ll find out later how that did. I transferred these little...

A Farm Enhanced Dinner

Phil made a very tasty and healthy dinner last night. Just wanted to provide some inspiration in case anyone else has a CSA. We had grilled chicken, greens, and a carrot/beets mixture on the side. The carrots, beets, and greens all came from our CSA. I’m not sure what all greens we used. Phil took a bunch of the bags, chopped them, and threw them in the pan. He cooked them like you would collard greens but we substituted out the bacon and ham hoc because it’s a weeknight not a holiday meal. I thought the beet carrot dish was especially good. The beets had this...

Salisbury Steak Night

I’ve been hungry for Salisbury Steak and Phil pulled out our old standby, trusty recipe but we made a few slight tweaks. Can you tell? Well… #1 – We used the fresh sweet peas from Ambrose Farms and #2 – That’s not just mashed potatoes, that’s mashed potatoes and turnips that Phil cut up and steamed in beef stock in our rice cooker. He then put in some of our hippy butter (what I call the Vegan buttery spread from Earth Balance that I can eat because I can’t/shouldn’t eat dairy) and seasoned (salt, black pepper, and white pepper). I couldn’t tell the...