We are doing our best to flatten the curve by staying home and by truly limiting our grocery store trips to just once or twice a month. Sometimes we run out of stuff, and I'm doing all I can to figure out how to make all of these items from scratch with what I have … Continue reading Homemade dishwasher soap – dirt cheap recipe!
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Biscuit quest – try #1
Once when I was a kid,, I heard an old lady at a church supper say, "There are two kinds of cooks at church suppers: the ones who bring biscuits out of a can, and the ones who bring biscuits made from scratch." LOL I want to be the type that makes the biscuits from … Continue reading Biscuit quest – try #1
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Tuna patties recipe
I made these today for lunch, and they are fast, easy, cheap, and DELICIOUS! Ted just loves these. Ingredients 2 small cans tuna, drained 2 eggs @ 3/4 cup breadcrumbs 1/2 onion 1 Tbl mustard 1 tsp lemon pepper Salt & pepper to taste Mix it all together well and form it into patties (about … Continue reading Tuna patties recipe
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Gramma Billie’s Big Fat Easy Yeast Rolls
Ted's Mom gave me this recipe. He absolutely loves this bread. YUM!!!
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A little peek…
...at the chicks!
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EASTER CHICKS!!!
Ted holding the first chick to hatch for us in 2020 I haven't hatched eggs out since the spring before Gramma Izzie got sick and died (two years ago on April 25th). It was something I did every year that she just dearly loved. Often, I'd have to give state testing to students on hatch … Continue reading EASTER CHICKS!!!
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Tomatoes!!!
Last weekend early on Saturday morning, I cleaned out an upper kitchen cabinet to see what was in it, use up food close to its expiration, and basically find something to kill a couple of hours. I saved two plastic egg cartons, and on Sunday, Jake and I added a little dirt to them and … Continue reading Tomatoes!!!
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Pizza dough recipe
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
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Kitchen tip
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
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Great-Grandma’s old table gets a new purpose
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
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