With more than 20 people at our house for Easter, we’re guaranteed a lot of laughs – and a lot of leftovers. It can be difficult to gauge how much everyone will eat – Uncle Fred and JR might not be in the mood for ham, and there may be fewer lamb-eaters among us than… Continue Reading
Tiny Farmhouse Friday: National Pig Day
For real. It’s a thing. Today is National Pig Day. Saturday at our local feed and grain store is a busy day, horse owners loading their pick-up beds with bales of Canadian hay, our chicken-owning neighbors buying feed for the week, and pig owners like us buying grain and confessing to the store owner our… Continue Reading
Beating the February Blahs: Good News to Share
February is a blah time of year, particularly here in the Northeast, so I thought I’d share a few bright spots from the month with you. Before the holidays, I participated in Hodgson Mill‘s Have a Grain Holiday recipe contest, submitting a recipe for Whole Wheat Pumpkin-Pear cake with Ginger-Cream Cheese frosting (yep. thems alotta… Continue Reading
Cannellini in Fiasco: White Beans Cooked in a Ball Jar
It was an accident, really, that cannellini in fiasco even entered my life. During the frantic pace of the holidays, between baking apple cakes and wrapping jam jars in pretty paper, I saw a chef on our local cable news station demonstrating his technique for these beans, cooked in a giant Ball jar. Chef’s closing… Continue Reading
Lunch to Go: Israeli Cous Cous Salad with Cinnamon-Roasted Sweet Potatoes
For the last month and a half, one version or another of this salad has been my workaday companion. Sometimes it’s made with butternut squash, sometimes apples stand in for pears, occasionally, there are walnuts rather than hazelnuts. But this version is my favorite. And so, I am embarking on Week Seven of this Israeli… Continue Reading