Kitchen counter notes

Recipes for slow afternoons, garden scraps, and jars that need filling.

Simple, useful ideas for the kitchen table, the garden, and the long way home.

Drink

Garden Mint Sun Tea

Black tea, mint, lemon peel, and a wide-mouth jar left in the window until the color looks like honey.

Jar

Flower Stem Jar Mix

Shasta daisy, zinnia, coneflower, and whatever survived the afternoon wind. Keep it loose, not arranged.

Pantry

Lavender Sugar

A small jar of sugar rubbed with dried lavender buds for tea rims, shortbread, or gifting.

Garden

Seed Starting Morning

Labels, trays, a pencil, a mister, and one notebook page for what was planted and what actually came up.