I just wanted to share a few recipes that keep the father here, in a good mood.
Here is a recipe for Rhubarb Sherbet that utilizes a base that can be frozen during times of abundance and then made up as needed. This is a popular recipe at our house, on Father’s Day.
RHUBARB SHERBET from Cooking [...]
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For Father’s Day
Posted in early days, easily amused, farm life, frugal living, personal, scratch cooking, tagged early farm life, farm life, frugality, recipes, scratch cooking, unschooling on May 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Meat and potatoes
Posted in agriculture, early days, easily amused, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, lost skills, seed saving, sustainability, vegetable gardening, wildlife, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged agriculture, early farm life, family cow, farm life, frugality, grow your own food, over-winter vegetables, seed saving, self-sufficiency, vegetable gardening on May 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
That is what our garden is - just your basic old vegetable garden. Full of workhorses and not too many gourmet delicacies. It feeds us year-round though, but you won’t find low performers in our garden more than a year, or two at most.
Before the rain on Tuesday, we planted 50# of potatoes. I plant the [...]
Grass rules my life!
Posted in cattle, farm as desired, farm life, frugal living, sustainability, zero mile foodshed, tagged cattle, farm life, frugality, rotational grazing, Salatin-style farming, sustainability on May 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I wish all my pasture looked this good.
Grass, or the lack of it, rules my life. MiG (Management- intensive Grazing) is a complicated blend of art and science. I think about our pastures as much as I think about our gardens and orchards. After all it is food for someone, my cows, and they “feed” [...]
Warm stew on a cold day
Posted in canning, farm life, food preservation, recipes, vegetables, winter stores, zero mile foodshed, tagged canning, farm cooking, frugality, locavore meal, scratch cooking on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I started this blog, I thought I would be posting more recipes. Everything has a life of its own, including blogs. This stew is one of those start it, and walk away kind of recipes. Let it cool down and reheat and serve, it gets better each day. This is the recipe in the original form, my substitutions [...]
The original recycling…
Posted in Belly Acres (rant), canning, farm life, food preservation, tagged canning, frugality, homesteading on March 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
It used to be, that companies wanted your business. They would entice you to buy their products by giving you something to re-use, or give away a prize inside. Resources weren’t wasted and frugality was a way of life. Companies weren’t propped up by subsidies, so their bottom line was important. It was economical for [...]
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