Category Archives: FARM KITCHEN

~Pizza Cookoff~

  > If any of you are lucky enough to have a grandparent living with you, you can probably appreciate all the fun that comes along with having that extra hand. Mom, Nonna, is here until December 29, and I … Continue reading

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~Kids Can Butcher Roosters~

Not sure who coined the phrase “Yard Bird”, I think it was Fred’s brother Jimmy, but that is what we refer to the chickens around here that free range.  Not the fats we grow for meat mind you……..those are tender.  … Continue reading

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~Butchering a Berkshire Hog ~

 On the afternoon of the 4th we killed, skinned, removed the innards and quartered a sow.  We hung the meat in the “cooler” which for us this time of year was cooled with a small air conditioner. The cooler is more … Continue reading

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Butter Making, Fresh From Our Own Cows

With a couple of cows giving more milk than we need right now we have been making butter every couple of days and a four gallon pot of mozzarella cheese every day.  We use  the skimmed milk for the mozzarella, shred, … Continue reading

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Chocolate Honey Dip

  Hershey Chocolate Honey Dip This is a fast and delicious recipe I make when the kids are craving something sweet and I don’t want them to have too much sugar! 🙂  Be creative, here’s a few things we use it for … Continue reading

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Vanilla Ice Cream

This is a quick ice cream recipe (made without cooking) the kids often use when they’re in a hurry to have a tasty treat! 2    eggs 1 cup honey 2-3/4 cups whole milk 1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract 1 cup cream In … Continue reading

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Honey Corn Bread

Here is a delicious recipe that our family uses as our morning cereal.  Serve it hot or cold with honey and milk.  It holds the kids appetite longer than the commercial cereals in town which are full of all kinds … Continue reading

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Honey, nature’s best sweetener.

Only now are we getting back to what our mothers knew all along: that honey is a good natural sweetener, chock full of vitamins, minerals  and healthy enzymes.  In our modern times of over consuming over-refined foods, full of who … Continue reading

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