Greenhouse is going up

Today has been a good day.

The guys started building the greenhouse today. All the little seedlings were watching from inside the house.

My day was spent making office/admin calls, fire cooking, tending to the seedlings and burning stumps that are in the field (aka cleaning up sticks/fallen branches along the tree line & raking dried weeds to fuel the fire)

I also sorted our recycling b/c we got new bins, but I’m probably the only person who finds this exciting & worth writing about so I’ll leave it at that haha.

Homesteading is fun.

We’ve started our seedlings indoors under grow lights & along our southern sliding glass doors. They’re so cute & we feel happy when plants are growing.

Holy f I’m excited for fresh food. With the move to the new farm, we’ve started from square one so there aren’t any carryover greens or carrots in the field right now. Usually this time of year we’re nibbling on overwintered spinach & misc. flowering brassicas. I miss cilantro mucho.

I roasted our last pumpkin yesterday, we have one single spaghetti squash left.. the last butternut went into soup last weekend.

We’re basically living off sprouting potatoes, shallots & frozen ginger (it has held beautifully). Oh and I can’t forget the dehydrated peppers & sundried tomatoes! Dang, they are amazing.

Can’t remember if I’ve written about this before on here, but the sundried tomatoes & dehydrated peppers have become my new favourite ingredients for pasta/pizza sauce.

In the past, I’d can romas & use them for sauces throughout the winter. They were decent, but I never felt overly stoked about the flavour.

I didn’t can any tomatoes last season so when I went to make pizza sauce this winter, I used the dried tomatoes & peppers and was pleasantly surprised with the flavour.

I sautéed shallots & garlic in olive oil, then added the dried tomatoes & peppers. I’d let them sizzle in the oil for a bit, then I’d add water & put a lid on it.

Once they started puffing up, I’d add all the herbs & salt etc & continue adding water as needed.

After everything simmered together for a while, I used an immersion blender to mix it all together into a sauce.

What a rich flavour! I know canning sauce ahead of time makes for an easier pizza night, but the sundried flavour is a game changer. It’s worth all the time.

Anyways, I’m wiped from today & there’s a fly buzzing in my lamp shade so imma have to sort that before I go to sleep

K I just turned the lamp off & am now under my covers writing this.. listening for the fly to buzz off

.. I don’t hear it, maybe it’s going to sleep too

Do flies have eyelids?