I’m currently in the process of making some homemade cream cheese and whey. While I’m gathering that MOST people would do this in order to get the cream cheese, I’m odd and am doing this process to get the whey. No, I don’t want to be Miss Muffet. I just want to be healthy.
I’ve been [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Cream Cheese and Whey
Posted in in the kitchen, tagged cream cheese, culture, health, kefir, milk, piima, whey on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Oh Pickle…
Posted in garden, homestead stuff, in the kitchen, tagged canning, farm, freezing, onions, rain on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
d onions. I pickled three half pint jars of my too small to cut up onions today. On Sunday I had cut our onion crop to freeze for later use. Boy. That was fun…..
It has been my least favorite harvesting job so far. I think that I peeled and cut onions for two hours straight. [...]
Last Night
Posted in family, misc. meanderings, tagged buca di beppo, family, frisky berry, gig on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night we had a lovely family night together. I had a gig at the Frisky Berry in Franklin. (http://www.myspace.com/friskyberrycoffeeco) It’s such a cozy atmosphere that I didn’t feel weird bringing my hubby and four children to my gig. Something that is hard is when I bring the whole FAM-club thinking that it will be [...]
Onions and Peppers
Posted in garden, in the kitchen, misc. meanderings, tagged garden, jam, onions, peppers on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. I’m so creative with these subject titles…..
I have a harvest of a lot of onions. Albeit they are small, but by golly they were one thing that actually GREW at all this year in my garden. So I will be chopping these up probably tomorrow along with several red bell peppers from the farmer’s [...]
Homemade Bread
Posted in family, in the kitchen, tagged bread, homemade on August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few years ago I got into the habit of making homemade organic whole wheat bread. It tasted good and was healthier than anything I could buy at the store….and cheaper. Well, that lasted about one year. About two years ago I was going through some issues that left me feeling pretty down-in-the-dumps. As a [...]
Busy Saturday
Posted in Uncategorized on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today we woke up and went to the Franklin Farmer’s Market. We bought our breakfast there and also our veggies and fruit for the next 2 weeks. Then we headed to Whole Foods for the rest of our groceries. On the way we stopped at a garage sale and found a few things that we liked. From there we [...]
More
Posted in misc. meanderings on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just more homeschool. More gardening. More cleaning. That’s pretty much it.
Walnuts
Posted in homestead stuff, tagged trees, walnuts on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After taking a walk the other day on our property, we found out that we have two more walnut trees just on the outskirts of our wooded property. We already knew that we had one walnut tree in our side yard, but the other two trees were a pleasant surprise. I’ve been avoiding the wooded area because [...]
Pumpkin
Posted in garden, in the kitchen, tagged canning, garden, pressure cooker, pumpkins on August 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our pumpkin has ripened fairly early. From all that I’ve “heard” they are supposed to be ready in the fall so that they can cure in the cooler weather. Well, as my luck would have it, some are ready NOW. So….
At this very moment I have 7 quarts of cubed pumpkin “steaming” away in my [...]
Homeschool
Posted in family, tagged books, family, homeschool on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our homeschool sessions start on Monday. All of the girls are excited about it– even ARDEN! We received the curriculum by mail yesterday. We only had to buy Lilly’s and Liam’s. We already have the K and 2nd grade curriculum for Aggie and Arden. We use Sonlight and most of the materials are re-usable. They [...]
