This poor blog...

...is so neglected.

Life has been rather wild for us lately.  

I've been involved in the North Saanich Farmer's Market.  Every Saturday until Thanksgiving (Canadian Thanksgiving, that is) I get out of bed at three a.m. (!!!) and bake wholesome grain breads and pastries.  I start prepping items and doughs as early as Tuesday and then bake all day Friday and go to bed around midnight.  

Fearghus has gone from rocking on his hands and knees to crawling to cruising in two weeks!  It's madness.  I can't keep up with this guy.  He has two teeth, now, also.

Our garden has been hugely productive, but with many let downs.  It was a learning year for us.  I am intending to post about it at some point, I swear.  Today I picked ten pounds of tomatoes!!

Anyways, children calling.....

Kitchen Organization

It's a slow and painful process. Especially with two babes - one that doesn't like to be put down and one that loves to help 'sort'.

I snagged two boxes full of old canning jars off f freecycle....half of them are upstairs in the art room, ready to be used for painting and other crafts, and all the larger sized jars I've kept downstairs to organize my dry-goods.



In an effort to be frugal, and also eat more healthfully, we buy almost all our pantry items in bulk, cook from scratch, and produce all our own baked goods. I was getting tired of fighting the cascade of plastic bags that fell out of the cupboard every time I opened the doors. I was also tired of buying multiples because the first bag of kamut was hidden under the bag of brown rice. When I finally switched over to the jars, I found three bags of almonds! And three bags of sesame seeds. And FOUR bags of barley.



Here's everything all pretty. You wouldn't believe the mountain of plastic bags I had afterwards.



Now I need to do my spice cupboard. That will be a job and a half.

This post was brought to you by my favourite snack:



Avocado with lime juice and freshly ground pepper on rice crackers...yummy.