This morning got off to a tasty start with pancakes and grape jam. I had purchased a 50lb bag of wheat from Heartland Harvest Farm in Augusta County last week, and we ground some for the pancakes. Along with an egg from our hens, butter and milk from Homestead Creamery, and a bit of non-local salt, it made very tasty, if flat, pancakes. They were sort of like small crepes. The jam was from a batch we canned a few weeks ago, a recipe that used just grapes (from our vines) and honey (from Singer's Glen). It turned out more like syrup anyway so it was perfect for the pancakes.
Lunch was leftovers from the weekend, using our "don't let it spoil" exemption. For supper we made a recipe from Simply in Season for spinach squares, using sorrel and swiss chard instead of spinach. We have an abundance of apples from our tree this year, so we made an apple pie with honey for dessert. We debated adding cinnamon--dried spices in tiny amounts can't use that much fossil fuel to ship, right?--but I ended up forgetting to put it in and it was delicious as it was.
We still don't know what kind of apple tree we have. The apples look a lot like red delicious, but they sure don't taste like it. And they held together in the pie fine, which I've heard red delicious don't. So it's still a mystery.
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