The storm yesterday didn’t hit us as hard as we thought it might, but we still ended up with about 4″ of snow which turned crunchy and icy overnight. The day has been beautifully bright and I am taking my time with the meal preparations. We are going to celebrate this evening with our elderly [...]
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Thanksgiving 2011
Posted in Cooking, Holidays, Weather, tagged snow, Thanksgiving on 2011/11/24 | Leave a Comment »
Snowday redux
Posted in Cooking, Weather, tagged artisan bread in 5 minutes, Bear the Lab, bread, snow day on 2011/01/22 | Leave a Comment »
Another storm. Another snowday. More photos that don’t look any different from the last ones I posted. The sun is shining this morning and everything looks clean and white. Such a surprise! I can’t complain, however. We had a good day yesterday. It gave me one more day to recuperate from the stomach flu. John [...]
Eating locally
Posted in Cheese, Cooking, Farming, Food, Gardens, tagged locavore, Somerset grist mill on 2011/01/10 | 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Signs of the times
Posted in Cooking, Family, Holidays, Seasons, tagged Knitting, trees on 2010/12/19 | 4 Comments »
Brain on overload. Large conifer in the corner. Dining room table that can’t be seen again. Baking, or at least attempting to bake, and knitting. Basically, trying to do too many things at once. It’s been a lot of fun, though, as our grandson is at the age where he is really beginning to notice [...]
Autumn has arrived
Posted in Cooking, Family, Food, Seasons, tagged autumn, eggplant, lobster on 2010/10/02 | Leave a Comment »
I have been feeling so scattered and pressured this beginning of the schoolyear that I have neglected to post since Labor Day Weekend. Not for want of trying, but nothing has come together! Every year I feel older when the start of the school year comes around and I find it more difficult to re-attune [...]
Mr. Big moves on
Posted in Cooking, Farming, Sheep, tagged Border Leicester sheep, bread, cob oven, Mr. Big, rams on 2010/06/20 | 2 Comments »
As usual things have been crazy around the farm. School ended last week and I have been scrambling to get ahead here at the house. Too many things to do and not enough time! But, we finally found a great home for our ram, Mr. Big. He has gone to live on Bridge Farm in [...]
Snow day
Posted in Cooking, Farm, Food, Pigs, tagged ham, Large Black pigs, locavore, pork, soup, Tamworth pigs on 2009/12/10 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was our first snow day of the school year. It was a great call as once the snow started it really came down. And then of course it was followed by torrential, windswept rains. Totally yucky by the end of the day. I had finally picked up our smoked pork last Friday and we [...]
Butchers and a Local Thanksgiving harvest
Posted in Cooking, Farming, Gardens, Maine, Pigs, tagged butchers, lamb, locavore, meat, pork, Thanksgiving on 2009/11/22 | 3 Comments »
Wow, it’s Sunday and it’s still sunny and warm. I am reveling in being at home for the day and am recuperating from the back to back trips to butchers: Friday night a trip to the butcher in Albion to pick up the fresh pork cuts from our pigs, and a 200+ mile round-trip yesterday [...]
Chili Lambing
Posted in Cooking, Farm, Lambs, Sheep, tagged chili on 2009/03/02 | 2 Comments »
O.K., I am not going to complain about the snow anymore! The snow day today did do me a huge favor: I had the time to make a huge pot of chili. Just before lambing and kidding I always like to make a gigunda pot of stew, chili or soup to freeze in small portions [...]
