I know, I know…granola recipes on the internet are a dime a dozen (no, actually they are free), but this isn’t your run-of-the-mill granola recipe. This is soaked-to-remove-phytic-acid-naturally-sweetened-WAPF-style granola, and it is SO good, I can hardly keep it stocked in the house. Sometimes mornings can be rushed, and it is so nice to have…
Herb-Roasted Chicken
We have had lots of beautiful, fresh herbs in the garden lately, but of course you can make this recipe with dried herbs as well. It turned out beautifully browned with crispy skin and a fragrant, herby flavor. Herb-roasted Chicken 1 sprig of fresh thyme (or 1/2 teaspoon dried) 1 sprig fresh dill…
Large Pigs At Large; Piglets Behind Bars
Sooner or later, piglets all get to this stage – the stage where they bust through electric netting and go marauding on devilish and troublesome mischief adventures. In the midst of a busy gardening week, and on top of that a winter virus running through our milking herd and causing some anxiety (all the…
Wild-harvested Stuffed Grape Leaves
I’ve always wanted to try making my own brined, pickled grape leaves. Not only are the ones in the store shockingly expensive, they are not organic and have weird preservatives. I always loved stuffed grape leaves, but I haven’t made them in years. This spring the wild grape leaves in the forest looked so green…
Welcoming Summer
This week brings some very, very busy days in the garden. Our garden is almost a full acre, but parts of it are always left fallow. The size of the garden/fallow area is up to how busy or ambitious I am during planting-time. This year we have plans to cultivate most of the garden space. There’s…
OEUFS FARCIS: French Stuffed Eggs
It’s so fun dyeing eggs for Easter, that we always hard boil at least 3 dozens. Twelve eggs for each child seems to be a satisfactory number for dyeing, but then we are left with the question – what do we do with them once we are tired of egg salad? Yes, there’s egg salad…
A Garden Interview With Douglas And PJ Worth
This garden interview is with my friend PJ Worth and her dad Doulgas Worth. PJ has grown deep roots on the place where she has lived and gardened for her whole life. She and her father have about an acre of land in Micanopy, all intensively and beautifully landscaped with roses, herbs, fruit trees, and…
Easter and Lichen’s First Calf
Spring is such a lovely time, and Easter might just be my favorite holiday! This year has been so busy already, we missed out on a lot of our usual celebrations, like making an Easter tree. I felt downright unprepared for Easter just now, to be honest. We were so busy putting in an ambitious…
Slovenian Poppy seed Easter Bread
We will be doing our usual egg painting and dyeing this weekend, but I wanted to share this bread tradition from my family. This bread was a special treat from my childhood. If we were visiting my grandmother, it was always out in pretty swirly slices after mealtimes, and I would often grab some to…
Mulberry Pie
We have a huge mulberry tree growing in our front yard. My parents planted it when we first moved into the neighborhood, when I was 10, which makes it more than 20 years old. Every spring it is covered with flowers – which look like tiny green mulberries with white curls all over them. We…
A Bad Haircut
This post is actually about TWO bad haircuts. One of them I actually had a hand in myself – but I’m getting ahead of the story. It all starts with our Great Pyrenees puppy, Cloud Bear. There’s a spot of cool weather now, but just last week it was hot, really hot. There were some…
FRICASSEÉ DE POULET: Chicken Fricassee
This chicken recipe wasn’t too involved…if you don’t mind quartering a chicken, and taking several steps during the cooking. So yeah, it wasn’t the easiest recipe by any means….but it was really, really good. The flavors were just excellent, and you have a chicken frame to put into broth afterwards, so it’s a budget-stretcher as…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 