EggsSeedingly

The chickens are earning their keep! Today, we hit the 1000 egg mark! Way to go, cluckers! This month we are making an effort to enjoy seasonal cuisine. Spring features eggs, poultry, early honeys, asparagus, strawberries, rhubarb, spring onions, chives, lamb, and lots of delicious greens and herbs. We are also making more of an effort to spend more time outside as the weather is becoming ever so slightly less soggy. And in other news, I'm learning to play the guitar. So far, I know three whole chords. Stay tuned for progress updates. At the local thrift store, we scored this old fashioned crank apple peeler, corer, and slicer. We used it to prepare a couple of apples for the filling in our breakfast crepes on Sunday morning. Delish! Later, we headed into Seattle to visit SAM, the Seattle Art Museum. We each had a different favorite piece of art. Alex liked the enormous coat of mail composed of military dog tags. David like a crystal sculpture and a moving leaf painting by an Australian Aboriginal artist. Ari liked an Asian moving water and goldfish painting best. I loved a very minimal abstract of Leda and the Swan. Anni's favorite? Going to the Irish pub for fish and chips for an early dinner after the museum. She was famished!

It's that seed planting time of year again. Here I am scrubbing trays and pots on Saturday afternoon.

"Hey Mom! Did you drop a seed?" Anni on her radical red trike. Matilda chicken on the loose, and the lower half of Alex.

Today we seeded: tomatoes, tomatillos, ground cherries, Serrano and jalapeno peppers, lemon cucumbers, Japanese eggplant, leeks, green onions, basil, cantaloupe, zucchini, pumpkins, lacinato kale, broccoli rabe, snow peas, and 3 kinds of lettuce.

Tonight's dinner menu? Chicken glazed with spiced honey, rice with chives, and asparagus with Meyer lemons. Yum!