“That seems like an awful lot of trouble,” Mom stands beside me chopping fresh asparagus from Barbers farm while I make the hollandaise for Sunday dinner. Hollandaise doesn’t happen without mise-en-place. A class of cold water and a plate of cold butter to reverse the egg yolks should they start to turn; butter melted, […]
Archives for May 2020
#SapBushSaturday Farm-to-Table (or is it farm-to-take-out?? farm-to-car?) Special
Indian Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani) Over organic Rice Apple Raisin Chutney Blueberry Pie GF & Prix Fixe 21.95 We’ll be serving take-out from 9-1. Feel free to linger on the lawn with your meals, walk up the street to the park, or take it home with you! See what’s available from our full menu […]
#SapBushSaturday resumes this week drive-in style!
Okay, we’ve given it a lot of thought….How can we keep you safe, keep our family and staff safe and still have a community gathering? The answer, we decided, lies in the parking lot. Pull into our cafe parking lot & hop onto our new online farm store site. There, you’ll be directed to our […]
The Ash Tree
“Remember when Saoirse got stuck in that tree?” Ula’s side nearly splits with laughter recalling that day: her big sister’s hubris as she scaled the giant ash, her embarrassment when she had to call for help. We are alone at the home, standing in front of the mighty ash, the tree that wrapped my daughters’ […]
Essential Kids
“But how will they learn calculus?” I heard that question repeatedly when we started on our homeschooling journey. It was a pre-corona world, where advanced mastery of math and sciences, expansive extra-curricular involvement and stellar test scores were the necessary recipe for the necessary acceptance at that necessary university, which was supposed to unveil the […]