Anyone else out there a Last Minute Lucy when it comes to holiday shopping? Can I get a show of hands? Or at least an “amen”? One year long ago, I think it was 1998 (that’s long ago, right?), I had all of my shopping done right after Thanksgiving, and, boy, was that a great… Continue Reading
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Deep Fried Stuffed Squash Blossoms
Or zucchini blossoms, to be precise. You may recall my obsession with squash bugs – the one where I envision myself, dressed as Death, wielding not a spectre, but my bare thumb- and fore-fingernails – effective tools as any in this crusade. Yes, my vigilantism has paid off, for we have enjoyed many stuffed zucchini… 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
2011 Restaurant Resolutions: Part I
During New Year’s week, while catching up on Twitter post-holiday rush, a tweet from Jackie, aka The Diva that Ate New York, caught my eye: “Can my New Year resolutions just be list of restaurants I resolve to eat in the next year?” Man, talk about a way to make New Year’s resolutions fun and… Continue Reading
Chicken Hypnosis
A little over a week ago, at JR’s behest, I began researching humane ways to kill chickens. When JR was a wee person, he worked at a neighborhood farm, and had slaughtered chickens using the old “axe-and-tree-stump” method, but, in addition to being plain old messy and dangerous, it’s not terribly humane, and so we… Continue Reading