Weather: Scorching! Highs in the 100\u00c2\u00b0F+ zone, lows in the high 60\u00c2\u00b0Fs. No rain in sight. Normal for this time of year, but erk. Fire season. Hoping things stay calm.<\/p>\n
Cooked: Healthy apple crumble with apples from Volcan Valley Farm — twice!, Nectarine and Beet Salad with Pistachio Dressing (adapted from Eating Well)<\/i>, tomato and eggplant quiche, yogurt, acquacotta (tomato and mushroom soup), sourdough fig and tangelo bread (Sift), <\/em>avocado toast with eggs, bacon, and shredded cabbage (yum), sourdough sandwich bread, caprese salad, and the husband made smoked shrimp. Mmmmmm.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Planted last week and sprouting now: Royal Burgundy beans, Tavera beans<\/p>\n Harvested: Tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, Italian roasting peppers, zucchini, basil, lemon cucumbers, Japanese eggplant, hot peppers<\/p>\n Traded: Basil for artisan bread<\/p>\n Reading for food inspiration: King Arthur Flour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fall magazine, Sift<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weather: Scorching! Highs in the 100\u00c2\u00b0F+ zone, lows in the high 60\u00c2\u00b0Fs. No rain in sight. Normal for this time of year, but erk. Fire season. Hoping things stay calm. Cooked: Healthy apple crumble with apples from Volcan Valley Farm — twice!, Nectarine and Beet Salad with Pistachio Dressing (adapted from Eating Well), tomato and eggplant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[242],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","tag-homestead-report"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6CUdQ-7e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}