Yesterday I decided to make myself a pumpkin cake after spending the morning feeding the critters and making myself into a human chew toy. 😆 I had all the ingredients except walnuts, but those are optional anyway. I used a recipe I have for banana cake and just substituted pumpkin puree instead of mashed bananas …
Hopefully you caught part one of my adventures in (somewhat) homemade butter-making yesterday. For the record, we don't use much dairy here because my hyperactive immune system doesn't love it as much as we do, so we use fresh, homemade almond milk and light olive oil instead. But since I can have a little bit …
Continue reading Now We’re Cookin’! Super Easy (somewhat) Homemade Butter (Part Two)
I have this gorgeous antique butter churn which is around a hundred years old and which I absolutely love. I keep my potatoes in a burlap sack in it and use it for looks, but I'm pretty sure that someone, at some point, used it to actually churn actual homemade butter. I honestly can't imagine …
Continue reading Now We’re Cookin’! Super Easy (somewhat) Homemade Butter (Part One)
I have a lot of fresh pumpkin puree I made from our recent sugar pumpkin harvest so naturally I've been busy making different recipes that use pumpkin in them. My latest, these delicious pumpkin spice muffins, came out so good I had to share! I modified a recipe by Libby's which you can find here. …
Continue reading Now We’re Cookin’! Pumpkin Spice Muffins (with walnuts)
I had two choices when it came to what to do with those five apples we harvested. You know, the ones the thieving squirrels so graciously left us? 🤨 Yeah, those ones. We could have just eaten them whole, which would have been the healthier choice, but gosh darn it, we planted that tree with …
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