Really, it is more mixing your own mixed chicken feed from a both commercial and home grown sources. http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Making-Poultry-Feeds-1.html Weston Price friendly, anti-soy (yay); I grow a lot of what is needed in our yard. I am working on Bio-intensive gardening schemes; planting about 60% of the arable land in nitrogen fixers and/or compost crop [...]
I am planning a project to renovate my kitchen and spend virtually NO money, just paint, cleaning supplies and some kitchen reorganizing. Our house is 159 years old but the kitchen had a crummy update in the 80’s, rendering it useless to food storage and traditional cooking. All the goodies like veg and flour bins [...]
Made pumpkin cookies today to celebrate a load of moving completed (kid moving back to the homestead) and to celebrate the new peeps in my life- Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter, room temperature 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed 2 large eggs 1 cup mashed or canned pumpkin 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 1/2 cups flour [...]
Shhh…It’s in the oven I am totally gonna eat some tonight! So, I was standing around, yelling at the Olde Man about chocolate and dessert and eaten peaches and the abomination of belly-worship while eyeballing the leftover Challah and inspiration struck! I wanted mooore bread pudding, my current favorite obsession, but something more…spicy. I checked [...]
I had a pretty productive weekend, and took advantage of the extra day and my returning energy to get a bunch of stuff done. So, this weekend, my childe and I: watched three movies made low carb “tortilla”chips from Cleochatra’s recipe at the Lighter Side of Low Carb made 1 gallon of pickles using the [...]
I usually love to celebrate the first harvests coming from our yard as it gives me great hope and comfort to be able to provide some of the food our family eats. This year has not been a comfort, and I can feel my ancestors shivering in sympathy over the harvest so far. A bad [...]
I tell ya I loooove coffee. I am not a complete insufferable coffee snob, like some bloggers out there who feel the compulsion to buy $2000 machines and order green beans on the net and roast them in their oven (or $1000 roasting machine) until first or second crack, but I do like fairly fresh [...]
What a busy weekend! I have been canning stuff I picked up in the valley. Y’see, I decided I couldn’t wait for stuff to ripen around here (we got a late start to planting due to TWO plant disasters) so I decided to go down below to pick up large quantities of cannables. I also [...]
Mystery Casserole! Tonight’s MC is a quiche: I have a TON of eggs to use up. The ducks should start laying soon which means even more egg-based dishes coming soon! Pair it with a salad and some nice white wine, and ya got yerself a winner! (Still no wine for me, sniff. Soon, my precious. [...]
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