More Pants

I have made 3 more pairs of pants for Henry, all from old sweaters.

Crazy mismatch pants:

Made from a hoodie, I thought the front pocket on the side of the leg might look cool but mostly it just looks weird, not too noticeable though:

My favourite:

Late Summer Harvest

I've been harvesting tomatoes like crazy. Also green beans, which reminds me I have to do something with the ones in my fridge. I planted a lot less than last year but still maybe too many. And on the weekend I dug up all the potatoes.

An Ode to Tomatoes

I have been harvesting loads of cherry tomatoes but haven't been doing much with them other than drying them. So I decided to make a meal based on them. We had delicious bruschetta. Cutting up the tiny cherry tomatoes bor the bruschetta was annoying but it made it extra delicious. And we had pasta tossed with loads of roast cherry tomatoes, some roast eggplant, gralic, basil, and a few olives. Will have to make meals like this more often.

More food for Henry

Henry has been having lots of adventures with food. He still doesn't really like the mushed up food but we are definitely making progress and the past couple days I felt like he actually swallowed some of his apple sauce. We've also tried sweet potato and mashed banana.


But he does love sucking and chewing on pieces of fruit through his mesh "nibbler" that I bought him. In there he loves peach, watermelon, frozen blueberries, and pears. But the mango we put in there for him he did not like - too flavourful I think.

New Shelves

I added some shelves to our laundry room. I want to add shelves everywhere - there is always stuff to put on shelves. These were super cheap and easy. And I think if they were painted they would be nice enough to even put in places other than the laundry room. Here is my recipe for easy $6 shelves, there's barely even any measuring.
Cut 2 pieces of 2x4 to length
Join together with biscuits
Buy shelf brackets
Find studs and measure same distance from floor or ceiling for each bracket
Use drill and screws to attach, do the brackets to the wall first

Cheltenham Badlands

We visited the Cheltenham Badlands on Monday. A small area just North of Brampton. They were really cool to see. They were caused by erosion after over grazing by cattle. The hiking trail was closed and they weren't very big but worth the drive anyway, they were very cool.

Henry's First Tux

Henry got to wear his tux to his first wedding on the weekend.

Soy Yogurt!!

I got a lovely surprise this morning. The soy yogurt I made last night actually worked. And it tastes delicious! I was sure it wouldn't work. I tried making cocount milk yogurt a couple months ago and it didn't work. Also, when I looked online I found lots of instructions and all of them fit into 2 categories: either they were very complicated with extra ingredients and steps all to make the soy yogurt thick like regular yogurt or they were very simple (like dairy yogurt) and didn't even mention thickness.

Luckily my Wild Fermentation book had instructions to use soy milk just like regular milk in a recipe so I did that. Except I added a bit of sugar because one of the sets of instructions said you needed to and now I'm not sure if I want to try to omit it next time. So I followed instructions for dairy yogurt using Edensoy soy milk (only ingredients are water and soy beans, don't know if that is important) and used a cooler with a 4L bottle of hot water and stuffed with towels as my incubator and left it over night. Oh and I used a tablespoon of dairy yogurt as my starter because after the coconut milk yogurt failure (in which I used soy yogurt starter) I read somewhere that commercial soy yogurt doesn't work as a starter (even if it says live cultures).

It really does taste delicious, way better than that expensive processed stuff I bought myself as a treat all the time while I was pregnant. And it has a lovely thick consistency and tasted delicious with my granola and maple syrup. I am so excited. That is often the one thing missing in our kitchen - easy snacks. Kevin eats so much chips and salsa that I think he will turn into chips and salsa. And Kevin thinks the yogurt is good too. So I think this goes along with the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day recipe as a life-changing discovery.

Projects

I've been having a very productive week. Besides giving the whole house a good vacuum after finally buying a proper vacuum last week ($10 at Goodwill, spending time cleaning is bad enough don't also want to spend too much money) and restocking us with granola and zucchini bread, I got to work on these projects.

Tomatoes picked and mint dried (for tea)












Tomatoes drying












Cider to be made into hard cider, is currently bubbling away in the basement











Sauerkraut getting more sour












Soap hardening












And Henry has been very happy to sit and play on the kitchen floor. He is especially happy with his new toy the coathanger.

Pants

I finally made a well fitting pair of pants for Henry. I had tried a couple of times a few months ago but they never fit quite right. Usually I underestimated the huge rise you need for the bum with a diaper (and it looks expecially huge when the legs are so short).

I copied some size 9 months pants that are fitting him well right now but still have growing room as well. And I even made a paper pattern so now I can do some more and know that they should turn out well. I've already collected some old sweaters from the basement.

These ones were made from an old T-shirt of mine and I like how the wide band at the bottom looks.

A morning in the garden

Henry and I spent some time in the garden this morning. I picked some tomatoes and lettuce for a salad for lunch, we already have some garden cucumber in the fridge. I also picked some mint to dry for tea. We have also been eating plenty of zucchini, potatoes, and green beans from the garden. And Henry tasted the grass, he seemed to think it tasted just about as disgusting as the squash I fed him yesterday.

Henry's first meal

Henry had his first meal yesterday. We gave him some baked delicata squash from the garden. We mushed it with some milk to make it nice and runny. The squash was ready but it was still a bit early so it wasn't sweet at all. At first he seemed to like it but by the end it was clear that he thought it tasted horrible! I saved a little more in the fridge to let him try it again tonight.

Here he is foraging for his dinner

Posing with his catch

And here he is eating it, still seeming like he might enjoy it
And here where it is clear he hates it