The 17th of June and I am making soup. For the past two weeks it has been miserably hot most of the time. Now it is downright cold and a warm, hearty supper sounds like a good idea. It is too early for much to be ready in the garden this far north, but there are plenty of herbs. I picked chives, walking onions, orange mint, creeping thyme, woolly thyme and lovage (nice since I am out of celery.) One thing nice about fall is making End of Garden soup, with the odds and ends of whatever is left in the garden. However, at this point the garden isn't even all planted.
Lovage, an herb, the leaves of which make a nice substitute for celery in soup
From Matthew:
Goals:
- Short Term: Get debt paid down after the year from Hell in dairying. Hope higher milk prices will somehow balance out astronomical increases in corn, fuel and taxes before we have to sell the cows and get jobs in town.
- Consuming Goal and Dream: Get kids through college, whole and happy, get Becky and Alan their drivers' licenses this summer. Somehow cope with the terror and worry when they drive off into the sunset
- Longer Term: Sell and have published a book...any book, and/or sell something to a national magazine. Other than short humorous stuff for American Agriculturist and Country Women, which I have already done.
- Long Term: turn over the farm, running and healthy to grown children who are ready to handle it wisely and balance decent lives with the all-consuming work
- Really Long Term: Live the later years gracefully and productively. Die fast and easy when the time comes
Lovage, an herb, the leaves of which make a nice substitute for celery in soup
