Here’s the thing about summer. It’s busy. Crazy, stupid busy. There’s no such thing as summer vacation around here. We have the mowing and the garden and the berries and the mowing and the building and the working and the mowing and the garden and the canning and the jams and the garden and the… Read More
This cooking community has been a dream of my heart for many months now. I want to thank every single one of you who has been here this week. (If you’re reading this and still haven’t yet, please sign up (it’s free!) and join us!) I am thrilled by how many of you have been… Read More
Zucchini. Cake. Delicious. We are vegetable lovers around here, which is a good thing because without them I would starve. But this isn’t just a veggie, it’s a veggie cake. This recipe is also the one that I use for carrot cake, or a carrot/zucchini combination. I wrote it down on a recipe card about… Read More
In a rush? Yeah, me too. Nothing like learning tonight’s get together is a POTLUCK. Or in this case, this morning’s 7 a.m. breakfast. DARN YOU, POORLY-WORDED INVITATION! Good thing BamBam (and I) are 4 a.m. risers. See him helping here? At least he is not hanging on to my leg and crying. Ham and… Read More
“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… Read More
We have twelve little goats at Blue Silo Farm that are hoping for a little something extra at Christmas–maybe a special cookie. I found this recipe at Hobby Farms and it sounds like something they would really like to eat. For their Christmas list, in the addition to the cookies, the goats wanted electric blankets… Read More
any MSG free recipes and substitutes for bouillon used to make my own, as the homemade recipes all contain flavored granules or bouillon which contain MSG
My MIL made the only thing I actually liked using the old fashioned citron fruit mix – a very soft cookie. Not a bar, just a regular cookie. Not particularly spicy, and more sponge cake like than a normal cookie. For some reason, the citron tasted good in this particular cookie. Other than in this... Read More
When I was a kid, my aunt used to can crab apples that I loved. Never thought to ask her for the recipe when she was alive, but a friend has a crab apple tree so loaded with crab apples, that some of the branches are touching the ground. When she told me that I... Read More