Chocolate chip cookies are a nice treat to make on a sunny weekend. We like to use dark chocolate chips as a contrasting flavor to the sweet dough. The darker chocolate being a little more bitter, helps temper the overwhelming sweetness. You can use your favorite chocolate chips though, the…
This recipe took some tweaking but now works quite well for us. We enjoy miso, a fermented soybean product that’s often mixed with koji rice culture. We enjoy it so much we actually make our own; typically a red miso, which has a longer fermentation time resulting in more umami…
We have been busy the last couple weeks, we have had to bottle feed twin baby lambs. While it is our first time doing twins, we still wanted to put together resources to reference back in the future. Things are a lot easier to recall if they are already spelled…
With the arrival of autumn comes the hearty breads. Focaccia is a simple bread to make and requires few ingredients. So long as you have flour, yeast, salt, water, olive oil, and some herbs you can make a bread to accompany your lunch and dinner. The toppings on focaccia bread…
The past month has been quite busy on the personal front, leaving the website postings a bit on the wayside. Hopefully things will calm down as autumn begins. But someone should tell the weather, because it has been in the upper 90s and even breaking 100s at times this past…
Muffins are a tasty snack that is pretty easy to make at home. Though this is a triple berry muffin recipe you can decrease the diversity of berries to just one or two if that is your preference. The berries give a good range of flavor and aid in the…
The Blue Kuri squash in the garden grew to a decent size and came out very lovely this past summer. Compared to the Uchiki Kuri grown last year, it had a more mild, savoury taste. The Uchiki Kuri had a very powerful sweet taste that was evident after roasting. The…
July was quite an interesting month for us, and with the mild temperatures, made for great garden progress. The field benefited as well, with many grasses starting to go to seed, while some cooler-season plants continued to flower into the month. The rains have tempered off though, and a La…
Why have Native Pasture? The primary reasons we chose to have native pasture was because irrigating and managing an “improved pasture” was an expense we did not have the ability to take on. While we do have access to a well, irrigation of a field is an ongoing expense, especially…
For a sweet craving for us, brownies regularly make the list. We like to eat them plain, but others enjoy these with vanilla ice cream or even a vanilla frosting. We use muscovado sugar, a type of brown sugar, to give it a deeper, more complex flavor. If you don’t…