There are still many great drawings available on sale in the shop right now. The ones you see here are between $15 and $50, which is quite a steal if I do say so myself! Jump in, dig around, see what you find!

Some of my favorites: The patterned botanical drawings - I like them clustered, and at $15 each, you can afford to buy all 4! This owl is the original for one of my on-going best selling prints, and the fish was the start of a series that never went anywhere, but I still think there's something really nice about it, like a wall mounted trophy catch or something.

Anyway, peruse if you will, enjoy all the eye candy, and find some new, original art for your walls!

Secret Sale

I'm using up all of the product pushing posts I never use on Wolfie and the Sneak's facebook pages today. I don't really like pushy sales tactics, and lump over-doing it on those social sites in with pushy-ness. We've been scanning, digitally coloring, and selling my drawings as prints for 5 (or 6 or 7?? how long now?) years and rarely offer an original drawing for sale. Now I have a giant plastic storage tote of drawings, and I'm ready to part with them.

It's taking a little while for me to go through them, put 'em on the wall, and get 'em listed in the shop, but it's happening. If you see something in the flickr set or as I upload to facebook and want me to reserve it, just let me know and I'll be glad to set it aside. In the meantime, if you don't hear from me in the next several days it's because I'm under a toppled pile of papers, some of them with rather pretty drawings!

Cry me a river of tomato tart

These are the days when eggplants, cucumbers, and okra fill the fridge; literally overflowing, jumping out, begging to be made into something healthy, flavorful, and interesting. Babba ganoush? check.

Or, if you've had a particularly humiliating work out at the gym (Cardio Strength class, anyone?) you  come home and drown your sorrows in something delicious and only vaguely disguised as healthy: Herbed Ricotta and Heirloom Tomato Tart in a phyllo crust. 

Since you have to brush the individual sheets of phyllo with oil before cooking, you lose a lot of the "healthy" aspects to this dish. After a workout that nearly brought me to tears reminding me of how hard I'd worked in the past, and how all that work was now a distant memory, I wanted something comforting. The phyllo was store bought and I roasted the tomatoes while sauteing leeks for the herbed ricotta. I basically followed David Lebovitz's directions, but topped the ricotta with roasted tomatoes and just the slightest layer of shredded mozzarella.

Afterward, I guiltily added up the Weight Watchers points and realized it wasn't awfully bad for me. Even though I left halfway through the class (I couldn't hang, I was the weakest link!) a brilliant twitter friend (thank you Emily!!) reminded me to put it all in perspective: 

Monday Musings

A plaque I commissioned from Melissa Bridgman. As soon as the porch is finished it will find its permanent home. In the meantime, I love seeing it in our kitchen window.

Long Tom paste tomatoes (pencil for scale): Delicious, giant, and virtually seedless. I'm in love with these tomatoes, the plants are dripping with tomatoes. The harvest (below) is one day's harvest from 3 plants. I have to pick them just slightly earlier than ripe or the rabbits will taste every single one.

Using the Harvest

They're coming in by the boatload. What to do with the harvest:

Anise Hyssop:
Anise Hyssop Sauce
Anise Hyssop Simple Syrup and candied leaves

Cucumbers: 
Chopped Cucumber Peanut Salad from good ol' Martha Stewart
Cucumber and Onion Salad
Cucumber Gimlet
Cucumber Jelly (or syrup for cocktails)
Pickles: Refrigerator and Canning

Super Easy White Gazpacho from 100 days of real food

Sorrel: 
Finely chop and add it to potato or tuna salad
Sorrel and Onion Tart from good ol' Martha Stewart
Sorrel Pesto

Sorrel Sauce from the Slow Cook
Sorrel Soup



Swiss Chard: 

Tomatoes: 
Canned whole
Canned in chunks
Canned as sauce
Oven-dried or Sundried
Tomato paste