Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
This year our apple tree is being very productive and the age old question I am asked is ‘can you have too many apple pies?’ The answer is a simple one… you freeze the ones you make until there is no more room … then you eat what’s left over!
Tough job this ‘eating apple pie thing’… but someone’s got to do it! I plan to have one ‘a la mode’ this weekend. 😉 Oh yeah, I am making the ice cream ,too.
Roger Freberg
Our daughters and Laura recently returned from Greece with a pictures and tales of their adventures that kept me entertained. I have always loved Greek food starting from my youth and I have tried to seek it out in my travels with more or less success.
So I watch their slides, listen to music , drank wine (yes, quite good now-a-days and the Greeks make a nice Merlot), cooked up wonderful food and enjoy my Baklava... so I closed my eyes and I am almost there!
Roger Freberg
Work hard, play hard… but always have time to rest and reflect on what matters.
Roger Freberg
Well, it’s pie making season again and our first apple pie of the year was sent to the freezer with a seasoned sugar crust. Personally, I like a strudel or cobbler style topping … but I am sure there will be plenty of apples for all sorts of uses!
Laura’s cooking away on her apple sauce… so all’s right in the world!
Roger Freberg
It would be very pretentious to talk about my vineyard — which in reality is but one giant Concord Grape vine ( with a 6″ diameter base) flowing continuously over a large arbor. However, I find them enjoyable… especially toward the end when I leave a few on the vine to ‘gewurtz’… to ripen fully and become wonderfully sweet.
This year I am debating whether or not to make wine or jelly and it depends on whether or not we snack on them along the way. The interesting thing is a basic batch of wine requires far less Concord Grapes than regular California grapes… many recipes start off with multiples of 6 pounds of Concord per 1 gallon of water… whereas most other grapes skip the water and use just 20 pounds of grapes.
One good thing may come out of this economy and that is more folks will have to learn to do things themselves… cook, raise their own food and make wine!
It’s not all that hard.
Roger Freberg