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  • Backyard Kauai Flowers

    February 21, 2014

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    flower5Kauai is known as the “Garden Isle”, and for good reason. It rains. A lot. Over many consecutive weeks days. And then sometimes the sun comes out and all that rain seems worthwhile. Kauai is one of the greenest places on earth, but along with the green comes the flowers. And you don’t need to go far to find them.

    flower3flower8Some of the flowers of Kauai are hidden treasures that require special knowledge and long, treacherous secret hikes. But most are there for all to see, on the sides of the road or even in your back yard. A quiet stroll in Kauai might just give you some of the best colors you will see in your lifetime….or you might just get rained on. It’s worth the risk.

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    Posted By: putneyfarm Category: Garden and Orchard, Musings Tags: art, Cocktails, cooking, flowers, food recipes, garden, hanalei, Kauai, photography, photos
  • Too Much Sun (Almost)

    August 8, 2013

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    kf12We rarely complain about too much sun, and certainly won’t now. On a recent trip to Kauai (the rainy Garden Isle), the weather was so good we had almost too much light for photos. A problem we hope to have again. But we did manage to wake up early one morning to beat the sun and get some photos of the local flora. There is so much to see, this is just a taste. We hope you enjoy it. Aloha.

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    Posted By: putneyfarm Category: Garden and Orchard, Musings Tags: art, Cocktails, cooking, flowers, food, garden, Garden Isle, Hawaii, Kauai, photography, photos, recipes
  • Getting Back Outside

    April 17, 2013

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    lily17Spring is fully here in Norcal, and that means lots of sun and lots of breezy days. It also means that it’s time to really get back outside and work in the garden. So far we have artichokes, potatoes, blueberries and strawberries and herbs to work with. Not a bad start. We cleaned up our beds and planted our tomatoes, peppers, cukes and eggplant. Of course, we got a very cold night right after planting. Gardening, your name should be Murphy. Such is life.

    A different kind of flower.

    A different kind of flower.

    Peaches on the way.

    Peaches on the way.

    Happily, the orchard has gone from blossoms to fruit and we have berries, cherries, figs, peaches, pears, nectarines and apples on the way. And we are still using up our citrus. Life truly is giving us lemons….the good kind. I guess we just need to make some lemonade and mix a few more drinks for friends. Somehow, I think we can handle that.

    Blueberries in a week.

    Blueberries in a week.

    And finally, the flowers are really starting to pop. This makes us happy. Always. Everywhere we go there are flowers. The wildflowers line our highways and back roads, the trees are in bloom and our gardens fill up with color. And summer is coming. Things will get even better.

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    Posted By: putneyfarm Category: Garden and Orchard Tags: art, Cocktails, cooking, flowers, food, garden, gardening, photography, photos, recipes, roses
  • The Floating Garden

    April 3, 2013

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    garden12garden2The Putney Farm crew is on the road (most of us, anyway). But we never quite leave our gardens fully behind. From one garden to another. We bet you can guess our location. Any takers? The first to get it right gets a cocktail named in their honor (you can even suggest a few ingredients). Otherwise, enjoy the pics.

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    Back to the office....

    Back to the office….

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    Posted By: putneyfarm Category: Garden and Orchard Tags: art, Cocktails, cooking, flowers, food, garden, gardening, Home and Garden, photography, photos, Putney, recipes
  • More Blossoms….Because We Can.

    March 18, 2013

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    Early cherry blossom.

    Early cherry blossom.

    All sorts of new blossoms at the farm this week. Spring, it seems, keeps…um, springing. And we are quite happy about that. In just the last week cherries, pears, strawberries and apples all started to bloom. And the peaches, nectarines, figs, rosemary and blueberries came into full flower. Our potato plants are taking off, the mint is already trying to take over the world and wisteria is just starting. Citrus still sits ready on the tree (but not for much longer).The bees are back, doing their magic. Wildflowers start to cover the hills. Color and sound fills the soul. This never gets old. Never.

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    First apple blossoms.

    First apple blossoms.

    Peach blossoms.

    Peach blossoms.

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    Early comice pear blossoms.

    Early comice pear blossoms.

    Figs, growing quickly.

    Figs, growing quickly.

    Blueberries. Can't wait.

    Blueberries. Can’t wait.

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    Posted By: putneyfarm Category: All Recipes, Garden and Orchard Tags: art, bloom, blossoms, Cherry blossom, Cocktails, cooking, flowers, food, garden, nature photos, photography, photos, recipes
  • Mixology Monday LXX Roundup: Inverted

    February 22, 2013

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    Stir and Strain’s El Jardin de Mi Abuela.

    Another Mixology Monday has come and gone, but this time we were hosting. Thanks again to everyone who participated and to Fred Yarm at Cocktail Virgin Slut for reviving and maintaining Mixology Monday.

    mxmologoThe theme was “inverted”, and we will spare you the full back story (post here) and just say the theme was intended to see if we could “flip drinks on their heads” any and all possible ways. And the Mixology Monday crowd certainly delivered. We saw drinks “inverted” on name, spirits, solid/liquid (ice was well used), colors, layers and temperatures. All good stuff. We are “working” our way through as many of the cocktails as we can, and many are very good.

    As for us, we found this theme somewhat more challenging than expected. We created two drinks, but also failed repeatedly to make our third, a champagne-based cocktail that tasted and looked like Napa Cabernet (some things simply aren’t meant to be, and who wants a cocktail to taste like wine anyway?). Oh well. In any event, here are all the cocktails (mostly) in the order we got them:

    BarFlySF gave us three cocktails that invert classics using light instead of dark spirits. We like their use of homemade limoncello as a substitute for darker liqueurs. Their Union Square inverted the New Orleans classic the Vieux Carre.unionsquare1

    BarFlySF then took up our challenge to invert the Manhattan and created the Nemo.

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    And finally, BarFlySF, added another post and inverted the classic Brandy Sidecar and created the Pisco Pedicab. Extra points for use of blood oranges.pisco1

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    Shake Strain and Sip took the inverted theme to another place altogether and put the drink inside an ice-cube. The Alice’s Looking Glass is a very cool, and very tasty, creation with rye and Aperol in the lead. (We made it with regular ice, still great).——

    901 Very Good Cocktails managed to create a cocktail, discuss the Butthole Surfers (a band from our youth, yes we are that old) and even promote the idea of moderation. We are all for moderation….in moderation.  The Shah Sleeps Cocktail inverts standard cocktail proportions and leads with Amaro Montenegro.Shah

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    The Shorter Straw applied the inverted theme to the Super Bowl (we would still like to invert that outcome) and gave us the 35th Minute. The lights went out during the 35th minute of the game and we certainly would have liked to sip this beautiful Rhum Agricole-based cocktail while we waited.

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