We received our first taste of winter over the weekend with a fast moving snow storm that left us with just under a foot of snow. As far as snow storms go, the timing on this one was about perfect. The snow really didn’t start accumulating until after everyone was home Friday evening and wrapped […]

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Peanut has been on a bit of an anti-red-sauce rampage lately. Spaghetti? Not with red marinara. Pizza? Not with red pizza sauce. Enchiladas? Not with red enchilada sauce. See the pattern? She’s three, it’ll pass. In the mean time, it’s given us a reason to look for some new recipes in place of some our […]

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Completely from scratch – yes. Simple – yes. Tasty – yes. Fun with the kids – yes. Got me out of a pinch – yes. Will I ever do it again – probably not.

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Those of you that follow us know that we like our potatoes. Heck… it wouldn’t make much sense to call the boy Potato Boy if he preferred leafy greens. Ironically, with that said, we haven’t bought a potato in over 2 years – thanks to a big garden. It’d be great if we had perfect […]

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I ran across a “trick” for cleaning strawberries a while back. I didn’t think much of it because I prefer a knife… that is until Lulu wanted to help clean strawberries one day this summer and I figured we might as well try it out. It’s rather simple… and great if you have little hands […]

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Have I mentioned we’re in the egg business now? Well, not in the formal eggs-by-the-truck-full-from-a-barn-full-of-caged-chickens egg business, but rather the we-have-the-room-let’s-get-a-few-more-hens-and-sell-some-fresh-eggs egg business. What started out as five chickens as a project for the kiddos grew quickly with the addition of a new group of chicks this spring. The timing couldn’t have been better, the […]

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How do you know you are getting serious about making salsa? In the blazing August heat you’re willing to stand over a grill full of… no, not brats or burgers or any other meat… but tomatoes. Since we’ve moved here, we’ve always ended the summer by picking tomatoes by the bucket… literally. Some times by […]

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Two weeks ago the DW found the first of the pullet eggs. Over the next week, we’d find an egg every other morning… slightly larger than the day before. A pretty good guess – there was one hen doing all the work. Still, the kiddos were able to collect enough eggs for the Sunday morning […]

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One of the unintended consequences of the new furnace is that the basement is warmer and drier during the winter months due to some slight changes in the duct work. From a home improvement view point, this is great. From a potato storage stand point, it took a marginal spot for potato storage and turned […]

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Squash is always kind of a gamble for me. Last year we planted a lot of seeds and ended up with only a few squash. This year, we planted three seeds and ended up with close to twenty fully mature butternut squash before the first frost. The catch is that I’m the only one in […]

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