Harvest Menu 2014

The last 6 weeks I didn't have a meal plan, due to being deluged with post-baby meals and also blessed to be traveling with family. We returned home from our latest trip to ripe tomatoes in the gardens and greenhouse, thus beginning the season of the BLT.

We currently don't have chickens laying eggs (perhaps soon?) but we do have rabbits to eat. I've not cooked rabbits before so I'm not sure exactly what kind of recipes I will use for them. The meal plan uses 1 rabbit every two weeks, so we'll see if that is a good rate compared to how many we have available to eat.
If you don't have rabbit you could substitute a chicken meal for the rabbit meals in the menu.

Week A

tacos or fajitas

BLTs or egg salad sandwiches

spaghetti

salad & bread

Pizza

Breakfast

Oven or crock pot rabbit

Week B

Yakima Valley Pie

Stir fry or sweet and sour and rice (meat: leftover rabbit?)

zucchini quiche (Simply in Season page 139)

tavern & veggies with dip

Pizza

Misc. garden-produce-inspired meal

burgers or brats

T: 5 years!

Five years ago we were very excited to meet Tobias! It would have been hard then to imagine him as a helping, hiking, reading, building, joking 5 year old. It's fun to be able to hear all his ideas and questions about the world and I'm excited to see how much he learns and grows this year.

Some of his current favorite things:

• Book: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (to listen to), Marvin K. Mooney will you Please Go Now (to read himself)
• Food: pizza (for me to cook), sausages (to cook himself)
• Thing to do outside: play on playground with ECHO preschool friends
• Thing to do with Dad: Snap Circuits or go for a walk
• Thing to do with Malachi: build trains or Duplos
• Thing to do with Avery: pat his head
• Thing to do with Mom: help clean the kitchen floor
• Thing to do in the car: look out the window at trains and mountains
• Movie: The Iron Giant

Things he thinks he will do while he is 5:

• learn to cook at ECHO
• finish the Narnia books with Dad
• hold Avery