Freezer clean out fun!

What happens when you need to clean our your freezer? You spend the day cooking and eating! Yesterday was our first pickup of our frozen CSA. That meant we needed more room in our freezer. This is what ensued:

Lunch: Homemade Potato Leek Soup (out of the freezer with local potatoes and leeks)

Afternoon cooking:
- Vegan pumpkin, oat, cranberry cookies (local pumpkin puree out of the freezer)
- Roasted banana ice cream (Bananas out of the freezer)
- Beet hummus (Just for fun with local beets!)

Dinner: Pasta with homemade tomato sauce (sauce out of the freezer with all local veggies)

and we kept going...

Sunday breakfast: Pumpkin pancakes (local pumpkin puree out of the freezer)

Sunday Lunch: Homemade Veggie Chile (with local tomatoes, beans, and veggies out of the freezer)

And now we have space to add the new local fruits and veggies we got yesterday and start this process all over again!

Vegan Cookies

Beet Hummus

Hooping it up!

This past weekend we had a fabulous weekend. This was largely do to a group we frequently mention on the blog, SELMA cafe. If you forget what that is check out our blog post about it here.
The weekend on started on Thursday night when I went to prep at SELMA. Prep is where you go to Jeff and Lisa's house to help the chef of the week dice, chop, and prepare the food for breakfast the next morning. You also get to enjoy a potluck dinner with the rest of the volunteers. Check out the meal I helped prep here.

The fun continued on Saturday when we went out to a hoop house build. This was the third build we have done. Check out the past ones here. This one was a beautiful (and unheard of) November day. We were wearing t-shirts! I will let Lisa's words and pictures speak for the rest of the day.

The weekend fun kept going on Sunday when we went to a benefit concert for SELMA preformed by Vienna Teng. Vienna is a wonderful singer, song writer, and song writer who now happens to be a first year in Arthur's program. It was in a small intimate setting and I fell in love with one of her songs, which you can check it out here. Once again I will let Lisa's words and pictures tell the rest of the story.

It was an amazing weekend and we have SELMA to thank for it.

Urban Gleaning

I think I posted last year about a coat rack that I made from used hooks and wood. I've made a few more items since then, all from used parts found at the Re-Use center, the woods in Ann Arbor, and yard sales.

Last year's coat rack.

A tree stump lamp, made with the help of Joe's woodshop and a deconstructed yard-sale lamp

My newest: a poster framed by an old window. Now when Courtney and I lie in bed we can pretend we're not in Michigan!