Making Bone Broth – Traditional Stock

Recipes, Seasonal Living

  When the cold weather creeps in it is time for me to make broth.  The warmth and nourishment seem to fit well with my quest toward natural and seasonal living.  I used my last quart of beef broth last week for the sensational, crowd pleasing Shepherds Pie (recipe...

Juicy Pub-Style Burgers

Beef Recipes, Grass Fed Beef

In my younger days I could have been considered to be quite an adventurous soul and when the opportunity presented itself to travel to England with Don Williams I knew, of course, that I would have to learn to drive on the wrong side of the road, in the wrong side of...

Good to the Grain

Book Reviews, Recipes

This week I pulled out Kim Boyce’s lovely cookbook, Good to the Grain and together with a wonderful post from one of my favorite blogs,   Cannelle et Vanille and Aran’s post about her now famous Summer Berry and Yogurt pie I was reminded of...

Eggs – Scrambled – MFK Fisher Style

Book Reviews, Recipes

  Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher is to cooking what Elizabeth Zimmerman is to knitting, and Gene Logsdon is to farming.  Another brilliant, contrary writer! With Bold Knife and Fork is an interesting read.  Her entire introduction reads thus; This book is about how I...

Greek Style Yogurt

Cultured Foods, dairy recipes, Homesteading, Raw Milk, Recipes

Thick, creamy yogurt is all the rage and with good cause. Ever since my travels to Germany where I found myself, trudging zombie-like over hills, through hamlets, over church yards with 125 steps (each way) for my daily dose of quark I have been addicted to the stuff....

Beard on Bread

Book Reviews, Recipes

James Beard is, to me, the Gene Logsdon of cooking, freakishly knowledgeable in their fields, a bit cranky and quite no-nonsense.  I guess that when it comes to farming and cooking I don’t really have time to read someone’s opinion, I want the facts and just facts. ...