We always dreamed of having a cow that could really produce some milk.  All the cows we have milked previously ...

Real food, as I am discovering, can be quite time consuming.  I've been trying to get my home together and cleaned up in preparation for...

                                                                                                                 ...

Yesterday Bret and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary.  Since we are not in the habit of big celebrations, we opted for going out to ...

My recent order from vitacost.com Lent--and spring--are naturally good times for taking stock of things and cleaning house.  We tidy ga...

Yes, the big egg was a double yolk! ...we just went on with our rather relaxing week.  We had our favorite buttermilk pa...

Ostensibly this is a little post about the great deal I got on strawberries today.  Really nice ones, for about a dollar a quart.  That is n...

Doesn't freedom of choice include a most basic freedom to choose one's food? There are many people in this country who make very p...

I wish I could show you a good deal of progress in my knitting and some new project started, but I have been consumed with keeping up with t...

...over spilled milk, but may I whine a bit?  Bret made an effort to get two gallons of milk this morning by milking our second cow, Naomi, ...

One. I lost a day this week. I sat down at the computer this morning all ready to wrack my head to do a Small Successes post, and lo and b...

Mocha-Chip Pinwheels about 7 dozen 1 cup unsalted butter 1 1/4 cups sugar 1 large egg 2 3/4 cups unsifted all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon ba...

A dog-eared, stained composition book, a stack of recipes printed off from the internet, loads of stockpiled ingredients and the weapons wi...

Not now, not ever!

Love these cookies. My sister gave me the recipe some years back. The cutouts hold their shape beautifully. I usually drizzle them with m...