A little bit of this and that

I should have been working on this over the winter, but there just never seems to be time.  So in the last few days while our grandson was home with us (a stomach bug), I worked on some cheese equipment organization, some new flavors of cream cheese, and ended up making a bigger mess than [...]

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Eating locally

The day after New Year’s our friends at Bridge Farm invited us to a “locavore” potluck.  It was an amazing and fun afternoon.  We got to meet a lot of new people, all of whom are producing some wonderful products.  The challenge of the potluck was, as you can imagine, creating a dish with local [...]

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Goat cheeses

If it’s summer, it must be cheese time!  The goat milk is flowing and I am milking and making fresh chevre two or three times a week.  Anything that we don’t consume or share with friends goes into the freezer so that we can enjoy it all winter.  I also am having some fun with [...]

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Seasonal updates

It’s been awhile since I last posted and I feel like a slacker.  Starting the week before Thanksgiving we have had a crazy schedule which is partly to blame, and holidays always kind of knock me out of sync with my usual daily patterns.  I dried off our doe Elf, as she was having some [...]

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Lobster and Shrimp to the Rescue!

We have been scrimping on everything these days as, like everyone else, we are trying to make ends meet and make do with less. We try to think creatively, and recently we feel we really got onto something good!  When we take our chickens to the butcher we need to put them into crates of [...]

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Got Milk? Goat Milk :* )

For someone who has never (I mean never) been a milk drinker, I am incredibly happy about milk today. I have always been plagued with some lactose intolerance, but our goat milk doesn’t bother me at all. Not that I am drinking it, just making cheese with it! And after a hiatus of 2 1/2 [...]

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