I hope everyone who celebrates it had a great Thanksgiving! Our little family gathered and spent all day together, cooking and laughing and giving thanks for the bounty we shared. I did most of the cooking while the hubs kept busy doing DIY. Rather than a traditional turkey this year I roasted up three fat …
As you may or may not know, I do a lot of cooking from scratch. Not so much because I love to cook but out of necessity due to my wonky immune system. While I am doing much better these days and having less food reactions thanks to the miracles of modern mast cell stabilizing …
Continue reading Adventures in Cooking: A Recipe For Disaster?
Last night after we got back home from our day out in the snow, we were tired in a good way but chilled to the bone and needed some hot coffee and good home cooking to warm us up! So I whipped up some more of my rosemary garlic artisan bread while the hubs set …
Continue reading Now We’re Cookin’: Breaded Quail & Steamed Broccoli
I don't know about you, but fall weather makes me want to bake so yesterday I decided to make some artisan bread. I wanted some loaves I could wrap and freeze and since they are smaller and flatter than my normal loaves of homemade bread, I thought these would be a perfect way to use …
Continue reading Now We’re Cookin’: Rosemary Garlic Artisan Bread
On a happier (and tastier!) note, last night we fried up some of the Muscovy duck we butchered recently and I was reminded, yet again, of why we raise them. For one, Muscovies are very, very quiet. With all the other noise coming from our little homestead here it's nice to not have a loud …
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