It is sunny and 46 here, and I made a pot of beef burgundy stew for tonight’s, and several other dinners-it is just starting to boil and smell delicious. I’ve got some wholewheat bread I made last week to go with it.
Brewing sounds great-does that make you the alehusband of your neighborhood? I’ve never tried brewing beer, but I know how to make wine from whatever grows nearby-ripe opuntia (prickly pear) fruits make a nice wine, and it is a pretty color, too. The hard little fruits of pear trees that have escaped cultivation in abandoned orchards are great to use, too, as long as you don’t use a lot of sugar.
I’ve always wanted to make dandelion wine, like in my favorite Bradbury book, but I’ve never found enough dandelion flowers to make it happen...
You can also make hard apple cider with this fermenting kit. I’ll probably try that down the road sometime.
I’ve got plenty of dandelions here in the spring. Don’t they commonly grow there?