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Pizza dough recipe

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My baking table, ready for daily baking of all sorts I've found it!!! This is the perfect pizza dough recipe!!! I've tried several over the years, and with all this time to practice due to COVID-19 and self-isolating, I've tweaked my recipe over and over until I finally hit on the perfect combination of ingredients! … Continue reading Pizza dough recipe

Kitchen tip

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Today's tip: wash out your spaghetti sauce jars and soak the labels off. Use the jars to store uncooked spaghetti! Each jar holds 1 lb of spaghetti! There are two reasons for this: 1) if you're buying more pasta than normal, then any mice nearby may find and chew right through the boxes (I swear … Continue reading Kitchen tip

Great-Grandma’s old table gets a new purpose

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Practicing self-isolation to flatten the curve of COVID-19 is working out well for our farm; we're getting all sorts of things finished on our weekends and some in the evenings after working from home all day!  While Ted worked all weekend on the new coop (here and here), I undertook a few small projects of … Continue reading Great-Grandma’s old table gets a new purpose

The flock moved to the new coop!

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What do we do when we are self-isolating at home due to COVID-19? We work on farm projects like crazy! Ted worked again all day on Sunday and finished the new coop and chicken yard for the flock. Our plan is to fence in a second huge chicken yard by fall so we can rotate … Continue reading The flock moved to the new coop!