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Boy has this been a busy year so far!  Farmers' markets, sewing, websites, photography classes, baking, knitting, harp lessons, music recitals, guitar playing, candle dipping, soap making, birthday's...... we have done it all!  whew!  So many things to post about!  

Well, to start off I would like to mention that www.barefootseamstress.com is getting a makeover!  Elizabeth and I are making new additions faster than I can get pictures of them and then uploaded them on the site.  We are adding - funky, retro aprons, organic baby items including burpies, booties, hats and blankets, tea cozies, hand-dipped candles, homemade soaps, wonderful smelling lavender products, hand knit dishcloths, spa sets, and a bunch more that I can't think of at the moment!  ;-) 

A new addition to my list of "things that I love to do" is a photography business!  Yes www.imagesbylauraelizabeth.com is under construction!  Finally!!  :-)

Well, I will be posting our candle-dipping pictures as well as everything else that we have been up to very soon, so keep an eye out!

~~Laura

Pizza Fridays

Our whole family enjoys pizza, but each in our own way. Muddy likes it raw, Daddy has to have the meat, Elizabeth likes a variety but absolutely NO tomato chunks, and Laura ~~Everything but the ONIONS! Here are 2 pictures of our most recent pizza feast.

Laura mills fresh whole wheat flour and makes the dough from scratch. We then go out to the garden and find some of our toppings -- The pizza below has eggplant, greens and fresh herbs. Then we saute and add anything we have on hand. Some items include - olives, artichoke hearts, home-dried tomatoes, red onions (for Muddy), peppers, home-canned tomato sauce, shitake mushrooms, and turkey sausage for Daddy.

The bottom is a calzone which is everything stuffed into the dough, baked, and then dipped into tomato sauce.

~~Sisters

Tomato Summer

We had an unusually short tomato season this year due to a summer of rain. We had too much rain and not enough sun. But boy were they good while they were here. We still have two cherry tomato plants and two juliets hanging on, but those will probably be pulled up in another week. We've already planted the fall garden and we'll post soon on that. Here are some pictures of how our tomatoes supplied us with yummy meals.

The best way to enjoy tomatoes. Ahhh! Just a drizzle of olive oil and surrounded
by some of our cucumbers.


Wow! This was one of our favorites. We sauteed garlic, red pepper flakes and garbanzo beans. We added that to whole wheat shell pasta and topped with tomatoes. The tomatoes really gave it a fresh punch. Also mixed in was a huge amount of chopped fresh parsley and sage from the garden. This dish reminded us of another favorite. Pasta with pesto and tomatoes.






This was a real quick snack lunch. We made homemade hummus and sliced up tomatoes, avocado and red bell pepper for dippers. All it need was fresh chives from the garden and a sprinkle of celtic sea salt.


With most of the tomatoes, we made homemade tomato sauce and put up in the freezer. We normally can our tomatoes, but the freezer sauce just tastes fresher with our fresh herbs from the garden. We'll share our fresh tomato sauce recipe in our upcoming cookbook.

Instead of trying to peel thousands of cherry tomatoes (yellow pear, sweet 100s, and juliets), we decided to use the dehydrator. This really concentrates the flavor of the tomatoes. They're good just plain for snacks, but they also make great sun dried tomato pesto for the bread we make at our market. Poor Elizabeth doesn't like tomatoes, but she was a fantastic help with harvesting and putting them up. We do give the first prize of best picker of the year to our Dad. Thanks Daddy!


Bye Bye Tomato Season! For those of you wondering about fall tomatoes, we just don't like to take up the room in the garden. We have so many other fall yummies that take the space.

~~Laura

Canning Pears

"...She brings her food from afar."

Proverbs 31:14

Recently while at Whole Foods, we found organic pears on sale!
We bought 4 huge bags, came home and canned honey pears. We'll use them later for ice cream toppings or pear cobbler. ~~Laura

We couldn't resist making a dessert for that evening, and so while Muddy and Laura canned the pears, I decided to make a pear cobbler. It turned out very yummy indeed! ~~Elizabeth

We served it up with vanilla ice cream and Daddy was the first recipient.