preserving Our Past: A Visual Journey of our Summer Kitchen
Freshly picked garden radishes
Garden salad being prepped
Spring onions ready for the salad
Garden salad complete
Cilantro soup warms in the kettle
Soup and salad being enjoyed
Buckwheat waffle batter being hand mixed (5/15/26)
The waffles iron is first prepared
Waffle batter being spooned onto the iron
Waffle iron full of buckwheat waffle batter
The waffle iron is closed for baking
Buckwheat waffles baking in open hearth
Waffles have been turned out and stay warm in the hearth
Buckwheat waffles with whipped cream and strawberry topping being enjoyed
Readying vegetables for chopping (5/9/26)
Pork sausage frying on open hearth
Squash added to pan with sausage
Onions added to sausage and squash
Rosemary cake
Pot pie preparation (5/1/26)
Pot pie in kettles over open hearth flames
Strawberry rhubarb pie in the bake kettle
Strawberry rhubarb pie baking
strawberry rhubarb pie cooling
Summer kitchen in Winter
Student visitor picking pears with traditional picking pole
Peach tart baked in the hearth (9/19/25)
Path leading to the summer kitchen
Children learn about traditional cooking in the summer kitchen
Note of appreciation from school children visiting the summer kitchen
A new board is laid on the porch of the summer kitchen in 2025
Summer kitchen utensils
Lattice topped fruit pie baked in the hearth (7/26/24)
Lunch is served open air--all prepared and cooked in the summer kitchen (7/11/25)
Plum tart turned baked in the hearth (10/6/23)
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