Author: Leslie Kimel

A Visit to the Tallahassee Museum

A Visit to the Tallahassee Museum

Today I went to the Tallahassee Museum with Kris, Sophie, and Jake. We had a lovely time. The Tallahassee Museum is one of my favorite places, a place I have been a thousand times over the course of my life. Every square inch has a 

Home Alone

Sand pears and Turk’s caps are in abundant supply now. This weekend Rob was out of town, so I was left to my own devices. I made butterscotch brownies and played with the cats. I also picked our very first pears and our first White 

Vegan Butterscotch Brownies

Vegan Butterscotch Brownies

A funny thing about Kimels–we don’t like chocolate, but we do like coconut. So this is the perfect recipe for me–butterscotch brownies with coconut! I better not make these again or I will be the fattest vegan, but I’m reprinting the recipe below with my little edits and tweaks in case you’d like to make them.

Vegan Butterscotch Brownies
Ingredients:
1 ¼ cups flour
½ tsp salt
1 Tbls baking powder
2/3 cup vegan butter, melted
1 ½ cups firmly packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 Tbls egg replacer powder
1/3 cup almond milk
½ cup chopped walnuts
½ cup shredded coconut
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an eight-inch square baking pan. Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl and set aside. Mix the melted butter, brown sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl. Whip the egg replace and almond milk together until frothy and add to the butter and sugar mixture. Stir in the flour mixture. Stir in the nuts and coconut. Spread in the pan and bake for 25 minutes. Cut into squares and serve.
Furry Friends and Tomatoes

Furry Friends and Tomatoes

Last weekend was a pretty typical summer weekend for us. We spent it gathering baskets of tomatoes from our garden (the Romas and Matt’s Wild Cherries are doing so great) and making fresh salsa and other tomato-y things. …

Potato Harvest

Potato Harvest

Well, I’m finally getting around to posting about this year’s potato harvest. We planted our potatoes on February 5 and harvested on June 4. We dug 8 pounds, 6 ounces of Red Pontiac potatoes and 15 pounds, 12 ounces of Kennebec potatoes. Since then, we’ve 

Tiny Home Improvements

Tiny Home Improvements


New birdhouse with barnacles on the screen porch


More old Fiestaware, collected in Dothan, Alabama


New gold-framed picture in the back bedroom (it’s a portrait of Pittle and Foxy)


New watercolor of an owl in the living room

Cute Cookie on a Mushroom with a Rabbit in the Background

I made a bunch of these sweet, salty peanut-butter cookies to take to Kris’s birthday party a few weeks ago. Obviously, I’m very behind on my posting.

More Tomatoes

More Tomatoes

This week we picked lots more tomatoes–Romas, Bonnie Hybrids, Sun Golds, and Matt’s Wild Cherries–and today we used them to make a huge pot of marinara sauce jazzed up with homegrown hot peppers, garlic, onions, basil, and oregano.

Using Up Tomatoes

Using Up Tomatoes

Our main task every Sunday is to use up the many pounds of tomatoes we have harvested throughout the week. We’ve been getting baskets full of Cherokee Purples, Romas, Stupices, Sun Golds, Sun Sugars, and Matt’s Wild Cherries. Here is last Sunday’s tomato-heavy feast:


Vegetable soup and vegan pizza made with our fresh garden tomatoes (and eggplant, garlic, and onions).