I live with my Mom and Dad and their weimaraner "Spencer". My Dad has multi infarct dementia

We all come from Vermont and we grew up during the 60's and 70's. One of our favorite things is cooking and so we try and stay sane by writing about cooking. I have an old cookbook from Rutland VT called "Out of Vermont Kitchens that we are going to try and cook from and see what the food tastes like.

The cookbook has some prepared foods in some of the recipes. But we will try and adapt them perhaps to modern cusine.

We also try other recipes but will dive into our Vermont roots as often as we can.

Marion Ballou Smith
The daughter of Orris and Margaret (Mageen) Ballou, Marion Ballou Smith grew up in Rutland, Vermont, graduated from Mount Holyoke College (1914), and taught botany and mathematics. In 1927 she married Esme A.C. Smith, a businessman in Rutland. Active in local business and civic affairs, Smith was the co-compiler, with Alice Chaffee Bowker and Ruth Sutton, of a fund-raising cookbook entitled Out of Vermont Kitchens, published in 1939, to benefit the Trinity Mission of Trinity Church in Rutland, and the Women's Service League of St. Paul's Church in Burlington, Vermont.

1.24.2010

Pizza time

We made a deep dish pizza using a cast iron skillet last night.

Late last summer we hauled out our grill and spent the evening grilling pablano peppers and eggplant and froze them. We used straws to pull out the air from the freezer bags.

I stir fried and seasoned the frozen peppers and eggplants with shallots and garlic then spread it over the pre-baked crust. I added a little pesto we were trying to get rid of and some feta. Very rich but very good.

I got 6 more chickens yesterday. These are REAL chickens! Rhode Island reds, black Australorp and a big brahma mama who loves to cuddle in your lap. Henry the rooster was overjoyed and croaked "WOW!" when I put them in the coop with him and his mates. I'm getting 4 more later this week. They are so big he needs a saddle to fertilize them. The coop will be a bit crowded for a few months until the weather improves and we can re-design the space. Its cold and should help keep them warm. The 10 new hens will be sad after having to come down from the penthouse coop they came from. I keep apologizing to them like a good slumlord.
Posted by Kimberly at 9:05 AM

1 comment:

Matt Sutkoski said...

God, that pizza looks delicious.
Denis reminded me you have a blog, so I've been looking at it. You are doing a great job with it. The humor of life and the poignancy you have when you describe dealing with your dad is awesome
---Matt of all Trades

January 25, 2010 at 7:39 PM

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