As I write this I’m eating homemade butter on homemade wheat & buckwheat bread. (What is buckwheat? If you can tell me without Googling it or looking in Wikipedia, you win! I have no idea what buckwheat is. Jessica ground some to put in muffins the other day and there was still some buckwheat flour …

But you really should have sent some of your snow our way. If everybody goes outside right now (you’re all home from work and school anyway, right?), takes a deep breath, and blows as hard as they can, it should push the storms all the way to, say, Ohio. We’ll have to make do with …

I hate to keep braying about this, but I don’t hate it so much that I won’t keep doing it. This is (Ta-daaa!) our first all-homemade meal. At least that I can recall. Milk: neighbor’s cow. (I won’t be getting a milk cow anytime soon.) Waffles: homemade from wheat we ground, oats from our storage, …

Doug sings Sm My friend Drew has been trying to compress this video enough to post on the blog. He finally got it, thought I look a little compressed as well (it feels somewhat squashed). I hope you like it; feel free to pass it along, but include the disclaimer below. What is going on …

We are a condiment family. A great portion of our fridge is filled with ketchup, BBQ sauce, oriental sauces, salad dressing, jam, mustard, mayo, …. We like to fancify our meals, so we use dips and sauces frequently. Here are three condiments you can make on your own, and they will be three less you …

In spite of the events of tomorrow [Absalom's execution], I am not going to give you the recipe for chicken noodle soup. I am sad the rooster has to go, so I’m trying not to dwell on his imminent demise. So, how about breakfast.At our house we only have an hour in the morning to …

Since we won’t be posting anything on Christmas day, here is the lastdessert recipe. I love chocolate anything…chocolate alone, chocolate andpeanut butter, chocolate and raspberry, chocolate and orange….My friend,Pixie, gave me this recipe a few years ago (chocolate and caramel), and Ihave found similar ones since then. It is great because it uses thingsyou probably …

Ok, I decided. Granola bars can wait until January. Today is something chocolatey. I have this kind friend who makes really yummy treats to share with me, one of which is this great dessert with peanut butter and chocolate, a winning combination in my mind! Since I am trying not to buy much in the …

Well, I was all set to give you the recipe for granola bars today, but since I am about to spend much of the day baking for the local Christmas Craft Bazaar which takes place tomorrow, I decided to give you something sweet instead. I don’t know how you feel about Lemon Bars, but I …

Do you ever get tired of making breakfast? I sure do. I have 35 minutes every weekday to get something made for 9 people so I can send half of them out the door with a full stomach. Breakfast can’t be very fancy in that amount of time, and I have a couple of picky …