I’m feeling burned out on politics. Here’s some garden porn: – fresh picked asparagus from our garden: Self-portrait by Anne C. Savage G’night.

Tonight’s haul, our first harvest: 145 pounds of organically-grown heirloom tomatoes. And there ate LOTS more on the vine. I’m skeert.

Does your fridge look like this these days? If so, here’s a great way to use up some of those prolific fruits. From my wife’s blog, The Savage Feast: Stuffed baked zucchini with rice, orzo and cherry tomatoes Nom, nom, nom…

I have to tread carefully here because I cannot allow my blogging life to overlap into my work life. I won’t be saying who my company is or what city it’s in. Please respect that, m’kay? So. While I live in Ann Arbor, one of the most liberal communities in Michigan, I work in one of the most conservative parts […]

Caught this with my iPhone while harvesting broccoli tonight. I’m just sayin’…

…and it looked like this: Squished SquashOriginally uploaded by Ånne Good thing we only grew two mounds this year. Don’t get too excited. It’s a composite photo. I’m just sayin’…

We got some eggs from friends who have chickens (they are several different colors because they have several different types of hens) and this morning, we’re making omelets. Click for a bigger image Swiss chard.Onions.Zucchini.Broccoli.Green pepper. All fresh from the garden, picked this morning most of it. Damn, I love this life… UPDATE: Here’s the final result, courtesy of my […]

Cross-posted at Daily Kos and Blogging For Michigan. This one seems to have slipped a bit under the radar (though I did mention it briefly in blog entry yesterday. In response to the odious decision by the U.S. Supreme Court this week, Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-08) has put together a package of bills he calls the “Save Our Democracy” Reform […]

To paraphrase Roberto Clemente (and Garret Morris), Michigan summers have been berry, berry good to us. For years now, my wife and I spend time each summer picking black raspberry, blueberries, blackberries, cherries, peaches and other fruits from Michigan’s wonderful summer bounty. Then, each fall we process them into homemade jams and yesterday was such a day. [All photos by […]

This was first posted at an earlier version of this blog in 2007. Today, we’re going to process 100 jalapenos into these remarkably awesome stuffed peppers so I thought that I’d repost it. Enjoy. At long last, I’m finally getting this recipe up. We do HUGE amounts of these at once but the recipe is for 15-20. The photos are […]

Here’s what I guess you could call a “time lapse” panoramic shot of our kitchen that has been flattened out. In other words the left side of the picture connects to the right side. It shows our kitchen from start to finish during the canning process. Click the photo for a bigger version.It shows the tomatoes on the cupboard ready […]