We're pleased to announce mainecook61 as our winning foodpickler this week, based on her originality, thoughtfulness and enthusiasm in saving her food comrades in need. In seasonable fashion, she has won a Professional BBQ Tool Set from Viking (pictured above).
This award is based on participation over the course of the past week -- take a look at some of mainecook61's helpful answers: here and here and here.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who's been participating over on foodpickle -- we love to see your culinary know-how put to good work! Let the questions -- and answers! -- pour in.
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mainecook61
I live in rural Maine, on a 160 acre farm. We've been organic gardeners here for almost 40 years. In addition to growing all of our vegetables and some fruits, we raise chickens(Freedom Rangers for meat, Buff Orpingtons for eggs), ducks (Pekins for meat, Indian Runners for eggs), and beef cattle. A neighbor keeps pigs on our land, as well, and a neighbor taps trees in the woods for his maple operation. Since we have lived here, in what used to be Zone 3, we've watched the date of the first killing frost move from mid-September to early October, a change of three weeks. Years ago we tried to plant peach trees, but the cold winters did them in. We just planted them again . . .
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14 Comments on mainecook61:
How nice! Congrats and enjoy!
Congratulations, mainecook61 enjoy your great BBQ set. Always enjoy your well thought out answers.
Congrats! Enjoy your BBQ set! Your answers are terrific!
Oh yes - your answers are so rich. Have learned so much. Cheers to you! Well deserved.
Your contributions to Foodpickle are well worth recognition! And since when is a Mainer daunted by 'a touch of frost'? After all, when there's frost, can Indian Summer be far behind?
congrats! enjoy the new tools on the 'que!
Congratulations!! Enjoy the BBQ set!
Thank you all. I'll have to hustle with the barbecue---it's Maine, after all. It seems like the snow tires just came off. I just picked the first tomatoes today, and there'll be corn by the weekend, to go with lobster, of course. (Both best when eaten outside, where you can drip.) By early September, we'll be keeping a sharp eye on the full moon, which often coincides with a touch of frost.
I live in Montana. I right there with you. I didn't take the studs off my mountain bike until May. They'll go back on by mid-October. If not before. Happy grilling!
Congratulations! Now I really need to send you some fig preserves! :)
Ahem. And just how do we get on this distribution list?
Warm congratulations. I very much enjoy the thoughtful care expressed in your answers to foodpickles. And I especially loved your "lusty butternut!"
That's a lovely BBQ set! Nicely done, mainecook61.
Congrats, mainecook61. Still a lot of barbecue weather ahead of us. Have a ball with your new utensils. ;)
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