Originally posted on How to Provide:
Farmhouse Cheddar By Ricki Carroll Ingredients: 2 gallons whole milk (You can use raw milk or store-bought) 1 packet direct set mesophilic starter or 4 ounces prepared mesophilic starter 1/2 teaspoon liquid rennet (or 1/2 rennet tablet) diluted in 1/4 cup cool, unchlorinated water 1 tablespoon cheese salt Cheese…
Originally posted on A farm for all seasons:
And with all those berries comes one of the best things I’ve ever made, jam. Last year I made this jam and only made about 6 small jelly jars worth and ran out quickly. This year I made as much as I could. If you have access…
Originally posted on Italian Home Kitchen Blog:
Ah, the pumpkin spice latte. It’s become a seasonal favorite, but it doesn’t come cheap, and you often have to wait in frustratingly long lines in order to secure your frothy, spicy treat. Fortunately, it’s not that hard to make a fantastic pumpkin spice latte at home, and…
As promised last week, I will share with you how I make my fresh goat cheese even if I am far from being a guru. I try to have fun and each time, I improve the recipe by adding different spices in the final stage. Here are the ingredients : 4l of milk ( no…
Cheese, cheese, what a pleasure to eat and often to smell. As we have goat’s milk (more then we need for our soap) , I decided to try making cheese!! I started a few weeks ago, making regular goat and ricotta cheese. (In a future post I will tell you about how these kinds of cheese…
Well the season is over now : we had our last harvest. We were able to pick our last late ground cherries before the first frost. I was also able to pick the last branches of mint and thyme. Now they are drying in the kitchen. And don’t forget you can find our herbs in our…
(Recipes Below) As people throughout the northern hemisphere slip into autumn, there are many festivals and celebrations that celebrate the harvest we have and are still reaping. We felt that Thanksgiving weekend was an appropriate moment to thank those who, in spite of their vast contribution to a bountiful harvest, are mostly unrecognized and largely…
It’s harvest season, and time to begin storing food away for winter like the squirrels!! Our tomato plants have almost finished producing which my husband and my children are taking very badly, … the tomato family !! We still have zucchini to harvest, although they are completely deformed, perfect for Halloween, but once peeled the taste…
Here is a glimpse of our garden this month! We can not say we have a dry summer this year. We have had thunderstorms with torrential rains at least 2 times a week and usually more! This is now a problem for work in the fields. Since we had nice weather for 4 days this…
Because Save Our Bees is July’s featured charity, we felt we could do at least one short post on the honeybees’ best known (and loved) product, honey! (To learn more about our feature and/or this charity please visit our post: Here’s To The Honeybee.) No single article could possibly do justice to this fascinating substance!…
