http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green Wed, 16 May 2012 22:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/05/a-poem-and-blueberry-blossoms-for-a-rainy-day/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/05/a-poem-and-blueberry-blossoms-for-a-rainy-day/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 21:47:22 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=3254 Looking Out Rain today is grace out my window, here inside a pool of warm soft prayer for a day gained like the gift of a blue hen’s egg in the barn’s new hay; a simple wool sweater cocoon of words and songs and coffee all morning and into afternoon’s breaking clouds, pushed on by a front insistent on sunshine for the sweet, long-shadow close of day. -      SM, April 29 Rifling through a [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/05/a-poem-and-blueberry-blossoms-for-a-rainy-day/feed/ 6 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/04/while-the-cats-away/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/04/while-the-cats-away/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:05:40 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=3234 Under cover of darkness, we stole off the Island last Sunday and whisked Libby away to Florida for five days. It felt very sneaky, leaving the farmette and our jobs this busy time of year. And risky, too, what with hundreds of new seedlings in the garden and many still under lights inside. Not to [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/04/while-the-cats-away/feed/ 0 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/04/undercover-health-insurance-for-garden-seedlings/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/04/undercover-health-insurance-for-garden-seedlings/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:32:53 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=3219 The garden looks like a morgue right now, I’m sorry to say. It’s not that anything’s dead—yet. (And I hope it stays that way, though we are really pushing things this year.) It’s just that most everything we’ve planted is under row cover, for one reason or another, and the billowy white fabric sort of [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/04/undercover-health-insurance-for-garden-seedlings/feed/ 2 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/02/could-you-have-nest-box-checking-disorder/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/02/could-you-have-nest-box-checking-disorder/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:38:26 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=3104 Anyone who works at home should have a chicken coop. Forget rummaging through the refrigerator, surfing Facebook, or even sneaking a spell on the couch to flip through catalogues (I never do that)—checking the hens’ nesting boxes for eggs is the best procrastinating maneuver ever. I should know. I’ve been getting up from the computer [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2012/02/could-you-have-nest-box-checking-disorder/feed/ 3 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/11/best-roasted-brussels-sprouts-10-fave-thanksgiving-sides/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/11/best-roasted-brussels-sprouts-10-fave-thanksgiving-sides/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:18:29 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=2807 This time last year I was preparing to be on television the day before Thanksgiving. (The Martha Stewart Show—I cooked quick veggie sides from Fast, Fresh & Green.) A few years back I did a satellite media tour around this time to promote Fine Cooking’s book How To Cook A Turkey. The year before that, [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/11/best-roasted-brussels-sprouts-10-fave-thanksgiving-sides/feed/ 2 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/11/it-ain%e2%80%99t-over-%e2%80%98til-it%e2%80%99s-over/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/11/it-ain%e2%80%99t-over-%e2%80%98til-it%e2%80%99s-over/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:25:28 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=2759 The farm stand fell over on Saturday. Tipped by a terrific gust from the nor’easter, it fell backwards, impaling itself on a small rock in the process. Just a little damage to the roof, no big deal. But it’s funny. Seems the farm stand somehow knew the season was over. Only an hour earlier, as [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/11/it-ain%e2%80%99t-over-%e2%80%98til-it%e2%80%99s-over/feed/ 3 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/08/a-video-of-the-farmette-a-paella-dinner-and-a-recipe-for-unsellable-tomatoes/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/08/a-video-of-the-farmette-a-paella-dinner-and-a-recipe-for-unsellable-tomatoes/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:35:22 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=2490 Darn it all, wouldn’t you just know it—this is the time of year when there’s so much going on at the farmette that I could write a blog every day. Except, ironically, there’s no time to write—too busy! So today I’ll just have to give you a quick update on the goings on around here, because [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/08/a-video-of-the-farmette-a-paella-dinner-and-a-recipe-for-unsellable-tomatoes/feed/ 2 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/07/of-mice-and-girls-and-baby-carrots-too/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/07/of-mice-and-girls-and-baby-carrots-too/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:46:44 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=2375 I’m always in a bit of a funk after Libby leaves. There’s a palpable void that I can’t quite describe, except that suddenly everything is much too quiet without her giggles and shrieks and pattering all around. After a few days we adjust and look forward to her next visit. But this time, after a [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/07/of-mice-and-girls-and-baby-carrots-too/feed/ 3 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/06/father%e2%80%99s-day-on-the-farm-three-dads-and-lots-of-greens/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/06/father%e2%80%99s-day-on-the-farm-three-dads-and-lots-of-greens/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:53:13 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=2309 “Bob, meet Bob.” That’s how my Dad and Roy’s Dad met on Sunday. The stars aligned perfectly, as they only do when you don’t plan too hard or think too much, to offer us a beautiful day and a perfect window of opportunity. My parents were here for a short visit they’d had scheduled for [...]]]> http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/06/father%e2%80%99s-day-on-the-farm-three-dads-and-lots-of-greens/feed/ 5 http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/05/cheap-thrills-on-the-farmette-like-being-a-kid-all-over-again/ http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/index.php/2011/05/cheap-thrills-on-the-farmette-like-being-a-kid-all-over-again/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 00:47:23 +0000 Susie Middleton http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/?p=2108 We now have a pet turtle. Her name is Turtle. Yeah, well. Roy came home with Turtle the other day, claiming to have rescued her from the middle of the road. “I kept her because I thought Libby would like her.” Yeah, right. 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