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
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Welcome to Tiny Farmhouse!
When I first met JR, way back in the early 1990s, he was raising Black Angus cattle. He was a little ahead of the curve in his cattle-rearing (like 20 years or so), as they were grass-fed. And this was a good thing, because they were tasty, but also a bad thing, because technique for cooking grass-fed… Continue Reading
Congratulations – All-Clad, IceMilk Aprons, and PGG Cookbook Giveaway Winner
A big, huge, ginormous congratulations to Christina in Oregon who (very enthusiastically – in fact, I think we were equally giddy about it) won the All-Clad braiser, the IceMilk Apron, and the signed copy of the Poor Girl Gourmet cookbook. As luck would have it, Christina had already purchased a copy of the cookbook, so… Continue Reading
Happy Campers Eat Savory Ricotta Pancakes with Slow-Roasted Tomato Sauce
That’s a somewhat misleading title. Perhaps I should have called this “Storm Stories: Moderately Disgruntled Campers Eat in the Dark for Five Nights”, but I’ll bet that The Weather Channel wouldn’t find that amusing or worthy of a half-hour long show. Camping really has never been my thing. Happy camping even less so. I was… Continue Reading
Paringa Individual Vineyard Sparkling Shiraz 2004
I must apologize to you and to the wine. This wine deserves a much more flattering photograph, but, alas, JR and I drank every last drop and so I ask that you will just imagine if you will, the large bowl of a fancy red-wine glass, filled about a quarter of the way with a… Continue Reading