I will warn you right off…this is not about expensive food treats. No, this tiny story is about my life one summer when my family lived in a sandy little beach house, where the curtains around the neighborhood blew away from the open windows in the twilight and allowed the ocean to creep in. This… Read More
We have an underground stone root cellar. It’s one thing I love about old farmhouses. I love old farmsteads! They have such character and so many details that are left out of the newly built homes and barns. Some cold cellars are built into a hillside, separate from the house, but that makes them difficult… Read More
It was the depression. We had a small farm with such good soil that we could grow anything planted. We had potatoes, corn, beets, turnips, broccoli, cauliflower, and lots of good things. We had an orchard with trees laden with apples, pears, plums, and cherries. We had a few cows that gave us milk to… Read More
I’m new to cheese making and wanted to experiment making cheese from my Nigerian Dwarf goat milk. Their milk is renowned for cheese making as well as drinking, and generally results in a high cheese yield. I have 5 milking girls so I had plenty of milk to begin my cheese making adventures. I find… 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
I’ve been experimenting with recipes recently from Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook. Sometimes I don’t have all the proper ingredients and I have to make substitutions. Sometimes this works out and sometimes it doesn’t, but I was happily surprised at how well these black bean burgers worked out. I was quite suspicious. I always have… 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
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