From The Cow To The Table
It’s time to milk the family cow! How do you safely and quickly get all of white frothy goodness from the cow to the table? Here’s how we’ve been doing it for years.
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Raw Milk 101
There are a lot of two things around here: half gallon mason jars brimming with milk & house flies. Seriously, plague like proportions of flies. We usually get a ton in September that we’re still trying to kill on November, but this year it’s crazy. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the proximity…
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August’s Garden
{week one} {week two} {week three} {week four} The pumpkins are dying back and are increasingly turning a beautiful orange; the zucchinis are giving me a rest and have slowed down to a trickle- two or three monsters were found and we’re leaving to see how big they’ll get; the sweet potatoes are flowering- I…
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Kids In The Kitchen: Crumbly Apple Berry Cobbler
A beautiful fruity apple and blueberry Crumbly Cobbler served with the ever not-so-optional vanilla ice cream
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Pickled Eggs
For some reason, pickled eggs sound really disgusting to me. I like hard boiled eggs well enough, but when you throw in the whole pickling, it just has a negative connotation. However, it seems like a really great way to preserve excess eggs from the summer’s heavy laying months for use in the winter when…
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Milk Maidens
The “new thing” I learned this month was how to milk a cow. And care for the cow before and after milking; how to handle the milk; that raw milk is really delicious- and no, I’m not just saying that! I honestly expected to make some huge transition in order to force myself to get…
