It is so easy to make a healthy sweetened condensed milk substitute using less than a handful of real food ingredients. Slowly warm them in your slow cooker and use it for baking your favorite desserts! We’ve hashed out the pie vs. cake question here before. (You know, the really big matters in life.) And we’ve all take […] Read more…
| Cattle, dairy, In the Barnyard, Jersey cattle, Uncategorized
{I Heart Raw Milk} {Splish Splash} {Our Dolly, Holly} {Sweet Stella Vanilla} {Dandy Candy} {I Got A Little Sloppy, Don’t You Think? *Hangs Head in Shame*} {Candy’s Cream. Oh.My. Go’ness.} {The Most Yellow I’ve Personally Seen} {Bright, Beautiful Buttah} “My Side of the Milk Bucket.” Sounds like a good series title for ranting […] Read more…
I’m busy. You’re busy. We’re all busy. I’m not just normal busy this year either. I’m scared about how I’ll get it all done and still find time to enjoy having a new baby, the sun rises, the smells of the earth busy. Having over 7000 extra square feet of thistle garden will do that […] Read more…
Butter used to be a project that took our foremothers all day. How wonderful it is that we can now whip up a batch of homemade sweet cream butter without much fuss or trouble and can even do other kitchen tasks while the homemade butter practically makes itself! Using a tool most of us have in […] Read more…
| 2013 vegetable garden, Broiler Chickens, Cattle, Chickens, cost analysis, dairy, In the Barnyard, In the Garden, our homestead, Pigs
It may take a little extra time and effort to track and record what your homestead is producing, but at the end of the year, it is well worth the work when you see just exactly how much food you could grow on your land. I always have found it to be very rewarding in […] Read more…
| dairy, In the Barnyard, In the Kitchen, Jersey cattle, links, Pigs
Maybe it was because the week started out too hot with temperatures flirting with the 100 degree mark or maybe it was because the week ended up so chilly, barely making it into the 60’s and then threatening to drop down into the 30’s overnight, but I realized I barely pulled out my camera last […] Read more…
| 2012 vegetable garden, Broiler Chickens, Cattle, Chickens, cost analysis, dairy, food preservation, homestead management, In the Barnyard, In the Garden, In the Home, our homestead
Well it’s that time of year again. The time when I get a cold shock of reality and look back at all the records I kept, determining the profitability (or lack thereof) of all the time and money invested into raising our own food. As I look over the numbers and see where we’ve made […] Read more…
I have been searching off and on for the past two years, as our cow provides, for a high-yielding ricotta cheese recipe that will produce a flavorful result and wonderful texture. While ricotta is traditionally made from the whey leftover during mozzarella cheesemaking, it is done by adding an acid, such as apple cider vinegar […] Read more…
Between some of the issues I’ve been having with the mozzarella and the lengthy aging process before knowing whether your cheese- or even the recipe you’re trying is successful- I was nervous and hesitant to delve into hard cheese making.My husband pushed me off the cliff and forced me to find a recipe. I chose to […] Read more…
I’ve tried many, many different recipes for vanilla pudding over the years. Since we’ve acquired laying hens and a family milk cow, I’ve been trying to find recipes that use up the largest amount of those ingredients as possible because let’s face it, vanilla pudding is a whole lot quicker to prepare than an angel […] Read more…
| 2012 vegetable garden, dairy, just a photo, onions, pregnancy
1/22- No photos at all… we had a wonderfully full day, blessed with much fellowship. Quite out of character for most photographers, I never, ever take my camera with me and when I do, I’m far too embarrassed to actually use it. Part of me hopes that through this little project here, I’ll become more […] Read more…
Today I’m sharing a cheese recipe that I haven’t had nearly as much trouble with as I have the mozzarella lately.That’s not to say that I haven’t had any trouble with finding a recipe for cream cheese that works for me. When our cow dried up last year, I had been trying several different methods […] Read more…