I am so, so excited to share this! I have been working so hard to bring this to a physical form – it has felt like a real birth experience, where the laboring is harder than you realized, and you aren’t sure if you’ll make it! This is the book I have dreamed about and…
Tag: Real Food
Red Velvet Cake With Natural Color
I am so excited to at last share this recipe! It all began when Rose asked for Red Velvet mini-cupcakes for her birthday party last year. We checked out all the baking books we could find from the library (this took up most of the floor space in the yurt), spent some time on various…
Bread, From Seed
“Our bread doesn’t shine like that,” said Cordelia. “That is the pity of it,” said the peasant woman. “What makes yours shine?” asked Cordelia. “The sun in the wheat,” said the peasant woman. -The Shining Loaf by Isabel Wyatt In January this year I planted four kinds of hulless barley, the kind that is easiest…
Pumpkin and Broccoli Casserole
The dreamy blue-skied spring weather, so warm it is almost hot, has called forth the flowers of all kinds. There is a narrow definition of flower in our minds, the colorful, the beautiful, the many-petaled ones, but there are so many more, such as the scaly dimorphous cone flowers of the pines, or the catkins…
Wild Persimmon Tartlettes
The wild persimmons are ripe, hanging from the fall-tattered branches like small ornaments. Wild persimmons are, at best, a gamble. They are rather like how my brother’s girlfriend once described my mother’s cooking – either really good, or really bad. It all depends on the particular tree. Some trees bear fruit that will…
Straight-From-The-Garden Ketchup
The Matt’s Wild Cherry tomatoes held on longer than most of the other garden plants, but we have gleaned a last harvest from them now, too. They are small and very sweet and flavorful, and grow in dripping clusters. I grow them every year, whether I plant them or not – they are always coming…
Southern Fried Okra (and Luffa Gourd)
Okra is a favorite vegetable around here, so I always try to grow it every summer. It’s not difficult to grow, but I find it to be the ninja of gardening. Everyone says okra is easy to grow, and I would agree, but no one mentions what a pain it is to harvest! If I…
All-Raw Ice Cream Season
The every day summer rains have been hard on the garden, but the pastures are lush and green. The hay season is over, and the cows knew it as they watched us in a huddle around the empty hay ring as we set up moveable electric fencing for the week’s grazing. Loud mooings, some plaintive,…
Fried Chicken (and a little romance)
This is not a new recipe, but one I’ve made for a long time. I first came up with it after I began to eat meat again after several years of being strict vegetarian, and then vegan. My years of plant-based diet had started to cause some health problems for me, and I felt…
Frozen Vanilla Cream With Wild Blackberry Jam Swirls
The blackberries for this recipe were hard-won, and there was quite an adventure in procuring them. We used to have lots of blackberries around the pasture. Actually, the pastures were mostly blackberries (Ethan wanted to call it “Poky Pastures Farm”), but between applying dolomite and the rotational grazing, the grass sward has been…
Rainy Day Hot Chocolate
We got more than six inches of rain last week, much of it in a single day. I’ve never seen so much standing water around the farm for all day like that. We’ve gotten summer rain storms that make a creek of the dirt path to the milking area, but on Tuesday it just…
Wild Plum Harvest
This is the time when the wild plums are dripping from the branches. They are tart, glowing and fragrant. Some trees bear large fruits, some small. Some are red and some are yellow. It is interesting to taste each tree’s offering, getting a different mix of sweet, tart, and bitter plum flavor with each one. …
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 