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The Indolent Homesteader: Housekeeping

OK, so this post isn’t really about housekeeping; it’s about a conversation between my husband and me. I should point out that my husband and I are a pair of smartasses and that everything said here…

The Indolent Homesteader: Leeks

We haven’t had much indolence here recently, have we? (Well, we have, but I haven’t been writing about it.) So today we have a post on leeks! Leeks are some of my favorite vegetables and…

The Indolent Homesteader: Greens and Hash

I’ve said this before, but winter is the season when we eat a lot of greens, many of them from our winter garden. (Of course, this year we’re not having much of a winter at…

The Indolent Homesteader: Fall (or Autumn, if you prefer)

Fall has arrived here in Southern California. People like to joke there are no seasons here, but there are. We have to leave the windows closed at night and we bundle up in the morning…

The Indolent Homesteader: Eggplant

I was going to do a post on scientists and their depictions in romance novels, along with some thoughts on Ramon y Cajal’s thoughts on the ideal wife for a scientist, but I think I’ll…

The Indolent Homesteader: Tomatoes

I’m drowning in tomatoes here. This spring, when I had my dozens and dozens of baby tomato plants sitting out, my husband said, “You’ve started too many tomatoes.” And I retorted, “I did not. We…

Name Change (or, Thesaurus Hunt)

A while back, when I was flipping through some homesteading magazine, I thought to myself, “I’ll never be a real homesteader, I’m too lazy.”  And when I was thinking of things to write about for…

The Lazy Homesteader: Yogurt

When I was growing up, yogurt was a rather mysterious food.  My dad liked to eat the ones with the fruit on the bottom, but we kids were never fed it regularly, and I didn’t…

The Lazy Homesteader: Biscuits

I’m not at my best in the mornings.  I need two cups of coffee and an hour or so before I’m really ready to tackle the world, at least the full-on, shoulder-into-the-waist, NFL-style tackling.  This…

The Lazy Homesteader: Bread

I really, really enjoy making my own bread.  There’s nothing to equal the taste of bread fresh from your own oven, whether it’s white sandwich bread (which is so completely unlike white bread from the…