Fresh Local Produce and Hen Gets A New Stove.........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

picture borrowed from www.facebook.com/pages/The-Blueberry-Ranch

 

 

 

 So, my Roo, Justin(that's him up there looking handsome and happy), checked out The Blueberry Ranch on Highway 17  and came home in a state of cook's euphoria. 5 bags full of fresh picked produce, and i do mean fresh picked, for all of $21!
    They Are a family owned blueberry and vegetable farm specializing in organic practices,such as being pesticide free, chemical free, and using mostly all natural fertilizers. So, if you live anywhere on the Florida/ Georgia state line along highway 17 or are traveling that way this summer, stop by and check them out. You can also check them out on Facebook  for updates and to see whats in harvest.  

Texas sweet onions

egg squash and zucchini

pickles we made from the bag of pickling cucumbers Justin picked up

egg squash and onions cooking up for dinner.

Fresh picked Green beans with bacon rind. One of my Roo's favorite Dishes!

the after math of a cooking frenzy!

   We used this beautiful produce to take our old stove on her final voyage. She was very old with LOTS of quarks and ailments, but she was our first stove in our first house, so she will always have a special place in our hearts. 

  Which brings us to the story of  how hen got her new stove. So, almost 3 years ago poor peach of a hen was not yet a mother and she and her Roo were deep in thought about which oven to buy with their saved up chicken scratch, when low and behold hen laid an egg. Realizing that they would soon be parents, Roo and Hen would then have to spend all that hard saved chicken scratch on the care of their precious new egg and no new stove would be had........................................

 Until, one day when Poor peach of a mother hen was out with her bear of a chick in toe and stopped by her neighborhood thrift store and spied a lovely little gem of a stove in the corner and happened to ask the price. To her gleeful delight in just happened to be with in the range of the chicken scratch available in her coin purse! So hen paid the lady and set to work figuring out the logistics of switching her coupe from electric to propane. This turned out to be very easy since her daddy Roo happens to work on restaurant gas lines for a living.  Hen is still fluffing her feathers over her good luck and the roses have yet to leave her cheeks! 
 

So, while Hen is as happy as can be, Heather will be slightly nervous in her excitement until 1 of two things happens. My dad comes back to ground the gas line and check the lines and we see that it works correctly or the Gas company comes to put in my tank and does all the for mentioned things and we know it works. Until one of those things happen I have a very pretty new kitchen sculpture to look at and have been obsessively cleaning every nook and cranny of it. We'll let you know how it works out ; )