What do you do when the chickens start to lay again after their molt, and suddenly you are faced with a surfeit of eggs? I have ferreted out the perfect recipe because it is for lazy cooks. All ingredients were on hand thanks to my foresight in freezing a bunch of berries. The beauty of […]

I’ve been searching for a useful and inexpensive egg washer machine for years.  I am a busy berry and vegetable micro-farmer, and maintain a small flock of chickens to provide extra income and compost for my crops.  At peak efficiency, my hens lay 95 eggs daily, so every few days I’m washing about 400 eggs, […]

These days, you don’t hear so much about moms making kids eat liver.  Moms probably figure that they can hand the kids a Vitamin A pill, and that takes care of the whining. But Husband found some pork liver in our freezer, and determined to make use of all of the pig parts, he found […]

This recipe comes from the book The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon, who spends the entire book explaining, in detail, how to cook and serve a single large leg of lamb.  You wouldn’t think that could be so interesting. His chapter on how to cut up an onion is truly inspirational. This […]

Hardneck garlic is known for trying to set seed in late June, so it throws up a curly seedhead called a ‘scape.’ Farmers snap these off so that the energy goes into the bulb, but those scapes can be used in cooking for lightly garlic-ed dishes such as stirfry, butters, or pesto. But my favourite […]

Every time I take this salad to a cookout or a picnic, I get rave reviews. Kale, apple and bacon salad recipe Serves 4 Ingredients: 2 red apples, cut into long slices 2 teaspoons lemon juice 8 ounces kale, washed and torn into bite-sized pieces 6 slices bacon, crumbled 1/3 cup toasted walnuts 1/4 cup […]

Eat nettles?!? Are you kidding? Low in calories, a blanched cup has 36% of Vitamin A and 43% of calcium daily requirements. And, cooked, they taste (and feel) great!  Wow! But nettles are tricky.  You can’t touch them to wash or process them.  Nettle’s sting is designed to keep you away from their nutritious goodness. […]