September 4, 2011 - A Cup of Joe
We’re Partying on the Farm today! Unlike the last couple days, today is just demonstrations…and I’m demonstrating how to roast coffee beans in a cast-iron skillet. Home roasted coffee beans tomorrow! But I’m sure I will be sleeping in on my last day at Stringtown Farm before my journey back to Michigan. H ome roasted...
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September 3, 2011 - Tiella!
If you’re not at the Retreat, this is what you’re missing for supper tonight (along with Herb Bread)–we had Firehouse Pork Chops last night! Made to feed the masses, everything is in quantity here, but you can easily make it at home any size you’d like. Tiella, pronounced tee-ay-lah, is a well-known Italian dish combining...
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September 2, 2011 - Making Lard
A few weeks ago, I got this pig fat from our butcher. I know. Isn’t it beautiful?! The pig fat was free. Here is a sometimes little known fact. You can get lard for free, as long as you’re willing to make it. You don’t even need a pig! Which, WOW, makes it so much...
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September 1, 2011 - Easy Danish-style Breakfast Bread
Fresh coffee and a Danish–is there really any better way to start the day? I rarely have time to prepare authentic Danish pastry with all the repeats of rolling and buttering and folding and chilling. So instead, I often cheat with a faux Danish formula that relies on an easy-to-make bread dough and simple fillings....
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August 31, 2011 - August 2011 Contributor Giveaway
Farm Bell Recipes blog contributors are eligible (and automatically entered!) in a giveaway each month in which one contributor will be drawn (by random.org, using the days of the month that posts run) to receive a prize. Each month’s prize (and previous month’s winner) will be listed here, in a blog post on the Farm...
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August 30, 2011 - Feeding the Masses
Cooking can be intimidating for some and cooking for a crowd can seem impossible to many. It’s NOT so hard if you know some simple tips–I actually quite ENJOY it! We will be feeding the masses in just a few days! Here are some of the things that I have learned by doing. I hope...
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August 29, 2011 - Party Food!
I’m heading to West Virginia tomorrow! I’m fording the river to Suzanne’s and The Retreat and The Party. I get to wake up to farm sounds. Drink cow’s milk. Eat homemade butter…and homemade cheese…and things fried in lard. My body type is not made for 30 g of fat a day. I’m going on a...
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August 28, 2011 - Okra, Hold the Slime
I love fried okra. It’s about the only way I like it. I’m not fond of it in gumbo or other cooked dishes that allow its slime to develop. But the older I get, the more I dislike the taste of the tried-and-true southern way of cooking okra that I grew up with. The heavy...
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August 27, 2011 - Meet the Cook: Faith
Say hello to Faith from Little Rock, Arkansas! Food interests: I love food. Period. I bake a lot, because it’s easy to share baked goods. As the seasons change the new recipes I try change too. It’s easy for me to get stuck in a recipe rut, so using produce that’s in season helps to...
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August 26, 2011 - Maybe My Favorite Mix
This is a recipe I found around the internet when I was looking to copycat the Kentucky Kernel Flour which is what KFC basically uses for their coating. I wanted it low/no salt, so I switched out the salts for more powders and used tomato powder instead of the Lipton Soup Mix with a little...
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August 25, 2011 - Apricots, Blueberries, and Basil
In my journey to clean out the freezer to make room for this year’s pickings I came across a container of apricots patiently waiting to be made into jam. Along with the apricots, I had a package of beautiful fresh blueberries in the refrigerator. I began to wonder how successful it would be to mix...
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August 24, 2011 - From Mother’s Recipe Box: Banana Oatmeal Cookies
This is another installment in sharing with you the beloved recipes of my grandmother who died in 1986. Recently discovering her recipes has given new meaning to my cooking and baking as I re-discover the food she made for us. The recipe I share today wasn’t found in her hand-writing. I’m not sure from where...
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August 23, 2011 - Homemade Noodles, Egg-Free
When I think “Homemade Noodles”, I think egg-noodles–every noodle recipe I’d ever come across had eggs in them. Even the recipes included with the pasta machine all have eggs in them! But if you look at the ingredient listing on a box of store bought pasta–semolina, durum flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate (iron), thiamine monoitrate, riboflavin,...
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August 22, 2011 - Frozen, Fruity, Fresh Blueberry Sherbet
Frozen. Fruity. Fresh. I just want you all to know that this recipe is so simple, so foolproof, and so delish that if you don’t make it…well…you’ll be a bad parent, or kitties will cry, or something like that. How to make Fresh Blueberry Sherbet: 3 cups fresh blueberries 2 cups granulated sugar 1 cup...
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August 21, 2011 - No More Corn on the Cob Please!
I love LOVE LOVE corn-on-the-cob. With lots of butter, fresh cracked black pepper, and a little salt (well, a lot of salt), I can make a meal. Juice running down my elbows, slurping the cobs, it’s a little summertime heaven on earth. But. I get tired of corn on the cob. Sometimes I get the...
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August 20, 2011 - The Steam Juicer and Meat
I absolutely LOVE my steam juicer! It’s not just for fruits and vegetables–you can make stock with it, too. AND some beautifully shredded meat! This is a much easier way of getting the meat from the fat and bones of those pesky beef ribs that are always the last of meat to be used! I...
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August 19, 2011 - Meet the Cook: Ross
Say hello to Ross from Bel Air, MD! Food interests: Family cooking and canning. Hobbies: Woodcraft, gardening, baking, sailing, learning. Q. What are your favorite things to cook? Any kind of meat, roasted, broiled, fried, sautéed, or boiled. Q. How/when did you learn to cook? I can’t remember learning to cook. We all started when...
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August 18, 2011 - Kindle in the Kitchen
I don’t own a Kindle, but I read Kindle books using the free Kindle software for PCs on my laptop. Though I prefer real books, and visit the library most every week, I sometimes get a hankering for something to read when the library is closed, or when I want to read something I can’t...
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August 17, 2011 - Choke Cherries, Anyone?
These are wild choke cherries, also called “pin cherries” by some. They are very bitter, but as with most of the small wild fruits, such as crab apples, they have a lot more flavour than their domesticated cousins do. The secret is to use the clear juice alone and NONE of the pulp, and more...
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August 16, 2011 - True “Homemade” Honey
I am a keeper of honey bees–a Beekeeper. Currently, I have two Top Bar Hives and one Warre hive. A Top Bar Hive is just one method of beekeeping. Basically its a long box where bees draw comb from bars that sit on top of the hive. Top- Bar- Hive. Top Bar Hive Warre Hive...
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August 15, 2011 - A Very Light Rye
Recently, a reader requested a Grandmother Bread version with rye. I make rye bread occasionally–I love rye. Rye doesn’t, on its own, have a high gluten power, so I prefer to mix it with other flours, usually all-purpose, or sometimes a combination of all-purpose and whole wheat. Rye bread has a great flavor. It was...
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August 14, 2011 - Semi-Disposable Disposables
Do you cringe every time you use plastic wrap, foil, or parchment baking paper knowing after one use it will go in the trash? Have you tried the more durable counterparts only to find those substitutes don’t work as well as the disposable they replaced, or that they are hard to find and/or expensive? I have...
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August 13, 2011 - Tomatoes, Juiced and Canned
We drink a lot of tomato juice. But with the sodium issues here, last year I tried my hand at making my own. It’s tomato juice season again. And everything else tomato! With the right equipment, this has proven to be super easy! The hardest part is cutting the tomatoes. If you can get your...
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August 12, 2011 - Zucchini Version of a Potato Latke
You’ve probably heard the joke: What does it mean when you see a woman buying zucchini at the supermarket? She doesn’t have any friends! For those of you who plant your own zucchini, you know the truth of that statement. Sometimes it’s hard to use them up and give them away fast enough. I personally...
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August 11, 2011 - Recipe for Keeping Your Cool
I recently posted this status update to Facebook: “Don’t offer to hold yard-sales for family. Or, at least wait until Fall. Or, offer burn ointment to shoppers. Or, discount your prices on all melty stuffs. Or, up your prices and proclaim them Modern Garage Art!” Why? Because of this: Saying it was hot is an...
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August 10, 2011 - Additives: Sweeteners
First up in my Additive research is Sweeteners. These are food additives (other than a mono- or disaccharide sugar) that add sweetness with or without extra calories, or make a food more palatable. They can be found in beverages, baked goods, confections, table-top sugar, substitutes, and many processed foods. You’ll find Sweetener Additives on your...
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August 9, 2011 - More Blueberries!
If you hadn’t noticed, my last post was about blueberry cookies. Today…its blueberry cupcakes! Next time will it be blueberry ice cream? crepes? fudge? You’ll have to wait and see! So I cheated a bit and used this recipe that I saw on “CupCake Wars” a few weeks ago. It was the winning recipe, so...
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August 8, 2011 - Preserving Your Rosemary Harvest
Living in North Carolina, I never had to worry about preserving rosemary. It easily overwintered, and in many yards became excessively large to the annoyance of non-cooks. But here in the mountains rosemary can not survive the cold without intervention. One year it even died in my in-laws’ greenhouses. So I began researching ways to...
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