the kitchen and garden chronicles

making a bastard cassoulet today:

huge basket of grapes harvested on friday, as i was hacking back the grape vines where they staged a coup on the lawn this summer. this represents maybe half of what i could have picked.

here is a box of green tomatoes i'm putting in a cold room so that they will slowly ripen up. the visible tomatoes are on top of a whole other more densely-packed layer. if they don't ripen i'm planning to make a green tomato + apple mincemeat.