Nothing compares to the joy one feels in serving a salad fresh from the garden. Sun-ripened heirloom tomatoes, crisp ruffled lettuce leaves, freshly sliced cucumbers, and crunchy bell peppers with a rainbow of bright colors… just a little bowl of heaven. Instant human: just add a garden.
Of course, we are still a few weeks...
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Spanish moss is truly terrific stuff once it is aged. In the South, Spanish moss filled the most expensive settees and mattresses (the ones that hosted the wealthiest back ends). Spanish moss also found its way into mud clay as a binder and was used to build houses. Why? Because it lasts forever.
A legend...
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We could all stand to learn something from the pre-industrial era. Perhaps the idea of stepping back in time doesn’t hold any lasting appeal to you or it holds lot’s of appeal (as in my case), but the simple living aspects of life in the 1850’s are a lesson in conservation that we should...
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Ode to thee fluffy pancakes with slow-melting butter and that light yet dense texture which compliments any topping from fruit to powdered sugar. Sourdough pancakes, you take my breath away.
Once you make sourdough pancakes, you’ll never look back because these skillet pastries are the highway to the danger zone. That’s just all there is...
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Nothing says welcome home like an old fashioned hamburger with homemade sweet potato chips. Salty/sweet flavor combinations thrill my senses and, boy, are they ever easy to make.
All you need are two sweet potatoes, some sea salt (or regular table salt — up to you), and a few cups of oil.
Chop.
Chop again. See how...
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I could write a symphony for these sweet babies. Would you look at that cheese? How about those gorgeous (and STILL crunchy) bell peppers? Did it hurt when you fell from heaven, darling stuffed peppers?
No boring old rice and tomato sauce here. No sir. These are not your momma’s stuffed green peppers —...
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If you are in search of the perfect add-in to your backyard flock, then look no further than the Ameraucana. These delightful chickens were bred to lay blue/green eggs and not suffer the many issues associated with breeding Araucanas.
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I’m guessing that most people don’t think of turkeys when the words “impulse buy” are spoken. Backyard chickens are the gateway poultry of small-scale farming. It starts with just a few chicks and then you find yourself with ducks, guineas, turkeys, and peacocks. Then you are officially an addict. Every feed store’s roadside sign declaring...
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Warm cast iron skillets beneath steadily rising dough must make top five on the list of welcoming sights a kitchen can offer. So, in an effort to make my kitchen chic and globally appealing — I’ve come up with every excuse in the book to keep baking bread all year long. Scandalous, I know.
In...
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We needed dairy goats. We scanned the ads for goats all over Georgia and I contacted tons of wonderful goat-herding folks but I just couldn’t connect with them. Many of them spoke of their goats as they would a drunk uncle at a family reunion: useless, annoying, and blissfully unaware of boundaries....
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