It's Autumn Time!

It seems like the celebration of fall is toned down here in the Lowcountry compared to our experiences in New England. But we decided to try to re-create some of the magic yesterday by going to Legare Farms to go through their hedge maze and pumpkin patch, and feed their animals. Overall, it wasn't the best maze, and it seemed like most of the animals had been fed constantly throughout the day and were disinterested in our offerings. But we came home with some good looking pumpkins. The best part was actually the pond with flying fish. It kept us entertained for quite some time until we couldn't bear the mosquitoes any longer.

Durham Trip

Over Columbus Day weekend we took a road trip up to Durham, NC to see the Navy-Duke football game. Added incentive was that Jenny's former Boston roommate, Courtney Morris lives there with her husband Caleb, who is in his final year at Duke Medical School. We had a great visit with the Courtney and Caleb, and loved seeing the beginning autumn foliage. We also witnessed one of the most incredible sunsets ever on the drive up there. Unfortunately we couldn't snap a picture of the sunset, but we did manage to get a couple around Duke's campus and at the lopsided and highly disappointing football game (Final score: Duke 35, Navy 7).

What's so great about South Kakalaki?

Oh, besides the lowest gas prices in the country?

Well there's also the picturesque Cypress Gardens, to name just one.

Movie buffs might recognize this from the Noah and Allie's boat scene in The Notebook (among others).

Community Supported Agriculture

We don't intend for this to be a food blog. Mostly we want to share pictures from our life and the stories behind them. But we have to start somewhere, so why not with some of the dishes we've made from the first delivery from our farm share?

First we have squash blossom poppers. We heard these spoil quickly, so we made these the first night. A cheese mixture stuffed inside the blossoms, breaded and baked.

Next we had this delicious, mostly vegetarian pizza. Surprisingly (to Zach), it didn't really even need the meat. The variety of fresh vegetables (green onions, arugula, peppers, jalapenos) was more than adequate.

Sweet and sour chicken. Farm share items included mini ears of corn (baby corn?), peppers and Asian greens.

First post

This is Zach setting up our blog...doesn't he look like he's having so much fun?