April 2011
5 posts
SPENT GRAINS FOR THE DOGS (AND SOON FOR THE BIRDS)
This is Roo. She’s a messy eater.
I am a deeply flawed person, but one thing I’m proud of, even if it’s a little compulsive and hoard-y, is that I waste very little food. I always save bones for making broth, duck and chicken fat for sauteeing vegetables, and make weird frittatas and stews and sauces with leftovers. After that, whatever scraps can’t be fed to our dogs,...
PEEBOTTLE BREWERY
Beer-making is one of our many hobbies over here at Peebottle, and we have three new batches started, a dry-hopped Pilsner, a Kölsch, and a dry-hopped IPA, made with ingredients from Austin Homebrew Supply.
Here’s our Kölsch getting cooled down in the bathtub before the yeast is added. In a week, we’ll transfer it to the second fermenter and dry-hop it. Whatever that means.
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CHICKENS TK SOON
Farmer Tei made me very happy when he took it upon himself to clear out this section of the backyard for the chickens we will get soon. I was hesitant about the whole thing momentarily because he will be away for the second half of the summer, but some friends with years of egg-sperience (I’m really sorry about that joke but it’s genetic and I can’t really be held responsible)...
DID YOU KNOW SUNFLOWER SEEDS WERE REALLY COOL...
I did not. We are going to try to grow these too. Or maybe make jewelry out of them?
BIG PLANS
Last year, we made the rookie mistake of devoting too much real estate to the herbs in our garden. This time around, we’re gonna move them up to the roof for easy access now that we’ve moved into the top floor of Peebottle Estates. (Hey Tei, can you build some planters for the roof? Thanks!) In the ground will be some more substantial veggies, like beets, squash, and eggplant, in...
