May 13, 2011 - Meet the Cook: Rachel
Say hello to Rachel from Minnesota! Q. What are your favorite things to cook? Typically I like to cook savory recipes over desserts. But I’m pretty eclectic, and like to try new things. Instead of passport stamps, we try recipes from different countries to experience other cultures. Q. How/when did you learn to cook? At...
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May 12, 2011 - Easy Beef Tongue
Lets talk tongue. Oh yeah… Every once in a while I get a craving for a good beef tongue burrito. When I make those, I use a lot of cumin, cilantro, chili, etc. This time we’re making shredded tongue for sandwiches. In my opinion, tongue is the best cut of beef, you just have to...
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May 11, 2011 - Submitting & Finding a Recipe
Recipes! Recipes! Recipes! All sorts of recipes, from Appetizers & Snacks to Special Diets, from very basic to gourmet. It all started a year ago–now over 2100 recipes have been uploaded to Farm Bell Recipes and over 2200 members have joined our community. Farm Bell Recipes was a big step from our original Community Cookbook...
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May 9, 2011 - My First Potato Salad
We were invited to a friend’s house for Easter dinner. Of course being the Southern girl that I am, I asked what I could bring. After the obligatory “you don’t need to bring a thing” our host finally said some homemade potato salad would go well with the ham. Uh-oh. I like potato salad. I...
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May 8, 2011 - Semi-Late Earth Day Cookies
What crazy person put Earth Day the Friday before Easter? Who decided that? Because I TOTALLY can’t handle that much Technicolor baking, cooking, and decorating in one weekend. If I had tried to make cookies for Earth Day, on Earth Day, I would have been sweating colored sweat, like the Gatorade commercial. Instead, I made...
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May 7, 2011 - Spotlight on Herbs: Chives
As I start a series here on Farm Bell Recipes spotlighting herbs, one at a time, I decided to begin with chives as they are one of the first herbs to go nuts in the garden each spring. My chives popped up weeks ago and already tried to bloom. A neat idea suggested by several...
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May 6, 2011 - Meet the Cook: Brookdale
Say hello to brookdale from Maine! Q. What are your favorite things to cook? I like to get a big dinner and set up the table with my good dishes and shiny silverware and glasses on a real tablecloth. And invite my sister and grown-up kids to come and share. I like to make candy...
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May 5, 2011 - Un-Betty Crocker
I’m just going to come clean right now. I hate housework. There, I said it. ::cringes looking up for a lightning bolt:: I’m not meant to be that housewife–Betty Crocker with a cute apron and great hair and clean kids and no dishes in the sink. Not this chick. I’d rather be outside (so long...
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May 4, 2011 - Need Help Submitting a Post?
The Farm Bell Recipes blog is your community blog! It’s a place for fresh voices and new (and old) faces. A place where the community shares with the community. Looking back on our first year, it just makes me so proud to see how many members put themselves out there and shared with us their...
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May 3, 2011 - Himalayan Pink Salt
A few days ago, I was at the store with the husband and stumbled on a bag of Himalayan Pink Salt. I picked it up, looked at it, and thought, “Salt is salt. Why would anyone pay $4 a pound for salt? This isn’t the Middle Ages…” I was just about to put it back...
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May 1, 2011 - Dressing Up A Box Cake
This is one of those “dressed up box cake” recipes. I had no idea till recently all the different things to do to “dress up” a box mix. I know it’s kind of cheating, but it’s spring on the farm and I don’t have a lot of time right now between cows, chickens, laundry, homework,...
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April 30, 2011 - Meet the Cook: tsmith
Say hello to tsmith from Arizona! Q. What are your favorite things to cook? I love to cook and bake. My favorite things to cook are one dish meals for the easy clean up. Q. How/when did you learn to cook? I grew up watching my Mom and Grandma cook. My Grandparents would come stay...
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April 29, 2011 - National Oatmeal Cookie Day
You know cookies and milk are the best combination, right? Tomorrow is National Oatmeal Cookie Day. I keep track of these bizarre holidays through Hallmark. Hallmark probably didn’t come up with them (or they might have!), but they’re the ones who let me know exactly which holiday is which. I’ve always favored oatmeal cookies. Oatmeal...
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April 28, 2011 - Pig Cake
Pig cake. Sounds dirty. Sounds like my kind of cake! It is the new favorite at home as well as with ManSteak’s co-workers. How to make Pig Cake: Cake: 1 box of Yellow Cake Mix (I used the one on sale) 1 stick margarine (I let it sit at room temp all morning to soften)...
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April 27, 2011 - Bite-Sized Pickled Eggs
Pickled eggs…yum. A delicious treat, and when the menfolk are having a playdate poker game, it gives the garage the “bar food” ambiance their friends find so impressive. FYI! If you are going to feed your menfolk copious amounts of spicy pickled eggs, make sure they are immediately leaving the house for camping or will...
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April 26, 2011 - Homemade Ice Cream With No Machine!
Oh my, doesn’t that look good!?!? That’s what I had in my mind, but I didn’t have an ice cream machine. No machine? No problem. Introducing Junket rennet tablets. My Amish friend told me to get this to make cheese. This is not the rennet I use to make cheese, by the way. It is...
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April 25, 2011 - Easy Venison
Venison. To some, an exotic delicacy. To others…simply “ewww”. To those under my roof, it’s the other red meat. You know you want to try it! You can do it, it’s easy! How I make Easy Venison: I used 2 pounds of backstrap chops from the doe and buck that ManSteak and I harvested last...
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April 24, 2011 - Meet the Cook: Launi
Say hello to Launi from Utah! Food interests: Comfort food and country cooking. Nothing too fancy to feed the big boys and grandbabies. Hobbies: writing, sewing, reading, crocheting, cooking, baking and crafting Q. What are your favorite things to cook? I’d love to be able to say “lean, healthy meals,” or something equally as noble–but...
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April 23, 2011 - Farm-Fresh Dyed Easter Eggs
WOW, these turned out cool. I promise I didn’t mess with the color saturation when editing the photos. The only change I made was brightening the picture, since I took it late at night and the lighting stunk. YAY for EASTER EGGS! Making Easter eggs is one of my favorite family activities–especially now that I...
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April 22, 2011 - Our Absolute Favorite Easter Egg Dyes
Well, we’ve found our absolute favorite Easter egg dyes… of all time. No tablets, no food colors, no cups, no drips, no stained fingers or clothes, no spilling—I could go on and on. But seriously, the best part about this method is that everything you need is right in your kitchen and closet…or worst case—the...
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April 21, 2011 - Cookery 101: Salad Greens
“Roman emperors dined on dressed lettuce, and ordered served on plates of gold, radishes so thin that the gold gleamed through.” From Italy and early Greece, the custom of mixing greens with oils and herbs traveled to Spain and France where the people lovingly adopted it. When Catharine of Aragon went to England as the...
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April 20, 2011 - Make Your Own Raisins
For hundreds of years, dried fruits have been popular for their convenience of storage and concentrated flavor and sweetness. We seem to have gone full circle from fruits dried on rocks in the sun, to commercially dried fruits packaged in convenient little boxes and pouches, and back again to the interest in making our own...
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April 19, 2011 - Spicy Spring Cleaning
Look at how CLEAN this cupboard is! Don’t blink, because you may miss it, and it may never happen again. A while ago, Suzanne challenged us to spring clean the kitchen. One big sweep through the kitchen to clean the cupboards and drawers. …I tried, really I did. Now I aim for one cupboard or...
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April 18, 2011 - A Nice Mix of Sweet & Dill
I LOVE PICKLES !!! But not the sweets….at least not any sweets I’ve bought. I love dill. Kosher Dill. Kosher Dill with Garlic. Dill. I really want to like sweets, after all they’re sweet! Then Pete found this perfect mix of a sweet pickle and my beloved dill pickle and shared it with us on...
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April 17, 2011 - Rampin’ It Up
It’s ramp season in WV – Spring! Suzanne is cultivating ramps on the farm, but most of us have to count on ramp-digging ramp aficionados to sell us these wonderfully stinky wild leeks. It’s common to see hand-lettered signs with the simple word “RAMPS” propped on the windshield of a car or truck alongside two...
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April 16, 2011 - Meet the Cook: Rileysmom
Say hello to Donna from Rural Montana! Food interests: Pretty much everything with emphasis on chocolate!! Hobbies: Cooking, reading, being outdoors Q. What are your favorite things to cook? I think my first love is baking cookies and breads, bagels, and pitas. I enjoy making new recipes, with new techniques. I’ll try just about anything...
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April 15, 2011 - A Cousin’s Gift
Sometimes you just need to eat something rich and fattening. That’s all there is to it. Sometimes. Whatever your reason might be for craving some rich, sweet, delectable goody, I have the fix for that craving. And I’m giving it you. For free! This is a family recipe that is no tellin’ how old. My...
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April 14, 2011 - Dyeing for Eggs
Finally, spring is here and cultures and religions around the world celebrate by coloring eggs. Here’s a quick overview/how-to of coloring, or dyeing, eggs using natural dyes. First, lay in a supply of eggs. Sarah Mulholland Not interested in dyeing eggs? Overbooked with spring planting, holiday baking, innovative cheese making, or new-born lambs and goats?...
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