They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
On days when Mommy and Daddy don't have to go to work, we usually don't have much of a plan. We just sort of go with it, doing whatever sounds good as it comes to us. This usually results in us working madly to catch up on odd jobs that have fallen behind. This sometimes… Continue reading Abbey Scones: A very patriotic post
One of Ellie's favorite Christmas presents last year was... "The Redwall Cookbook." https://www.amazon.com/Redwall-Cookbook-Brian-Jacques/dp/0399237917 She and Evie have both been into reading the Redwall Series ever since Daddy read them "Redwall" "Mossflower" and "Mattimeo" last year for bed time reading. She has now read thirteen of the 22 books in the series. (She wants everyone to… Continue reading Cheerful Churchmouse Cherry Crisp
Cooking with the kids is so much fun! (Most of the time). Winnie is pretty sure she is big enough to do everything. If you tell her she is too small she assures you with complete confidence "I know how to do it." What she lacks in size, she makes up for in attitude... except… Continue reading Another Food Post: Pie, Breakfast, Duck Breast
We hosted Lords Day, not too long back and decided to try making the bread from fresh ground flour. It takes about 15 minutes to grind enough flour for a large loaf of chala bread. Adam had it mostly done before I even got inside, but his comment was, “that’s good cardio! That’s a bunch… Continue reading Bread and Lamb Breast
Monday is the day we bake bread, most weeks. We try to get it done as early as possible in the morning, so that we can have fresh bread for lunch. Since Seppi still doesn't have very much school this year, and Winnie has no school at all (except for coloring "pretty pictures") they usually… Continue reading Monday, Bread Day.
Sorry about the long silence for the last two weeks. We went right from a National Guard weekend into a vacation, and both of those take some recovering from. So even though we were back at the farm on Monday, we didn't actually get any farming done other than the chores, because we had food… Continue reading We’re Back! And Fresh Ground Flour
While our sauerkraut may have royally failed, we have been having better success with rutabaga, beet and parsnips. We put them in canning jars with 3-4% brine, and set them first on the kitchen table, and then, when the sunlight was too bright there, on top of the piano. The beets were quite delicious, sweet… Continue reading More Lacto-fermentation experiments
Before the latest cold struck we were planning on hosting Lord's Day dinner last Saturday. So we went to our garden and harvested some winter veggies. Winter beets. We put these in back on 8/21, but they didn't really amount to much. They sprouted, but only three were bigger than my finger. We'll leave the… Continue reading Winter Roots
We had a little virus bug blow through the house on Friday. It wasn't even that bad, but it was enough to give Miss Ellie a fever, so Daddy had to take a few hours of sick time while Mommy took Evie to homeschool co-op. Ellie Belle was wrapped up in a blanket on the… Continue reading Sick Days
Little Farm in the Big City 