Making pizza

The kids have so much fun making their own pizzas on Friday nights. We usually have dough in the fridge for the week and use the last of it on Friday for our pizza dough.

We make our own sauce from the Roma’s we canned from last years CSA adventure. Then an hour or so before dinner we make the fresh mozzarella cheese. It’s so much fun to see the whole process from grinding the wheat and milking the cows to eating the pizza I guess I’m becoming a “slow food” advocate.

Someday I want to grow my own wheat and milk my own cow.

Piper is pretty adventurous in her toppings, she will try a little of everything. Daniel on the other hand only like’s meat. Jouney’s pizza looks pretty sad and skimpy – not nearly enough cheese in my opinion(I’ll help him out a bit). Kheon just gets a cheese pizza at this time cause hes a wee tot. Mike and I like to sneak some mozzarella into our crust. Yummy!!

Starting tomato seeds

Monday Piper and I planted 70 tomato cells:

• Rutgers – Heirloom

• Gina’s – Family Heirloom

• Brandywine – Heirloom

• Rose De Berne – Heirloom we’ve grown and saved seeds from since 2001

• Mystery seed – Unknown but we’ve been growing it since 2001

• Sweet cherry tomatoes – That we started in our garden in Lyons back around 2002.

It’s really fun to keep seeds going, we have been eating some of  the same tomatoes for eight years. It’s cool to think the kids

Seed catalogs and garden dreaming

Well, I’ve scoured the seed catalogs and been to every website I can find that has to do with gardening. I have spent countless hours filling my cart at one seed company and then another. I’ve compared prices, quality of seed, heirloom or not and organic. And when it was all said and done I bought a bucketful of seed packs from Fleet Farm today when I went for chicken food. I still missed a few things so I will have to order those.

It feels so good to have those beautiful packs of seeds