Every year, there’s a battle for Christmas cookies. It’s not the kind of battle you’re imagining where there’s a plate of cookies and everyone’s scrambling for the last one. No, it’s a battle of wills to get a certain kind of cookie made. Every Christmas I spent living under my parents’ roof, Mom would turn… Read More
I love making bread. I’ve been making homemade bread since I was a teenager. That’s a long time. We’ve got 3 pages of terrific yeast bread recipes on Farm Bell Recipes and yet I know there are those folks who are still afraid to jump in the bread making bowl. Kerrie had a great post,… Read More
Recently, I did a post for a super-complicated recipe for lavender sugar. Lavender sugar can be used in all sorts of stuff, but I love it in my tea. But still, something was missing. How about some lavender-sugar lemon tea cookies? They are WAY super-hard. Just like the lavender sugar. Totally hard. I actually made… Read More
Food is something I love to share. I love to talk about food. I love to make food and watch people eat what I have made. And I wholeheartedly believe that if we as a society paid more attention to our food, where it comes from and how it is made, then we would have… Read More
Do you LOVE websites like CITR and FBR, but often feel like you’re missing out because you don’t have enough time to search through pages and pages to find the newest posts? Do you wish you could see a list of all the new posts quickly, without even going to the website, so you can… Read More
I steam-juiced some very small peaches from a neighbor’s tree a few weeks ago. The juice was beautiful and I canned some as is and some as peach jelly. I had the peach pulp left and couldn’t bear to toss it – what to do, what to do? Then I remembered that I had a… 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