I don't know why it took me all these years to think of this trick for perfectly shaped cheeseballs! Line a bowl with Saran Wrap or parchment paper or a Ziplock baggie, spoon in the cheeseball after mixing, set a saucer on top, and flip the whole thing over. Remove the bowl, and you're left … Continue reading Cheeseball recipe & shaping tip
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That’s a lot of pork!
The pigs went to the butcher the weekend after Thanksgiving. Those girls were ENORMOUS! We picked up the meat today. Look at how many boxes of pork we got from these two pigs! These are pork chops. If I'd known they were going to be this big, I'd have only put two in a pack! … Continue reading That’s a lot of pork!
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Elfie & Elfis are back!
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Breaking out the binder, baby!
Woohoo!!! It's Christmas time!
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Hay day!
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Happy birthday, Teddy!
Teddy, you're 26 years old today. I don't know where the years have gone; it feels like they flew by. I'm pretty sure that yesterday you were running away to Gramma Izzie's house down the hill and smashing into Janeesa's dollhouse of Barbies with your Godzilla action figure and sitting on the counter, eating sugar … Continue reading Happy birthday, Teddy!
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Cookie tip – how to freeze dough
Is everyone else still eating a lot of comfort foods because of COVID-19, or is it just me? I feel like it might just only be me, and everyone else in the world is being super fit and exercising like crazy and eating salads and counting macros...and I'm over here still baking homemade breads and … Continue reading Cookie tip – how to freeze dough
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Blackberry cobbler recipe
We have two blackberry bushes in our front yard. We did have three, but Ted drove over one when we were loading pigs one time, and it snapped the canes off at the ground, never to return (too bad because that was a big blackberry bush!). This summer, one of those two bushes has taken … Continue reading Blackberry cobbler recipe
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Fox!
I was doing dishes Saturday afternoon, looking out the kitchen window, when I saw a flash of a red tail on the other side of the fence and thought a rooster got loose. Then a second later, it came out from behind the brush, and it was a fox! It went all around the two … Continue reading Fox!
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No idea what happened
Bad news: we came home from picking up feed to find a pig dead. We have no idea what happened. She has seemed absolutely fine - eating, drinking, playing with the other two, rooting around in the pasture, but she was the pig with the hernia though so we think that may have caused some … Continue reading No idea what happened
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