I wish you and your families a bright and joyful summer solstice today! Take a moment to frolic in the sun and to smell the flowers! I will be making some sunny cupcakes for the kids and we will go out into the garden, scarf cupcakes, meditate on the beauty of the day, be thankful...

We are making loads and loads of homemade raw goat milk cheese (chevre) around here. Because of this I have to find new and exciting ways to USE the goat cheese, hence today’s recipe. The bread comes out delightfully herby, cheesy, and moist. Super delicious. This bread keeps well in the refrigerator and goes fantastically...

Some weeks ago I was contacted by someone who was in charge of finding and inviting latina bloggers across the US and elsewhere to an event in Miami that introduced the new roll-out of the QueRicaVida.com site. This site is put out by General Mills and is their spanish speaking and hispanic oriented outreach to...

I thought I would share a video with you that shows a little of what happens here, when I am NOT food blogging. If you are a longer term reader, you know I “homestead” or have a little farm here on our property. We eat local (backyard) eggs from our own chickens and diary from...

Woo hoo, I have been sitting on this little secret a few weeks. I am attending the roll out event for the QueRicaVida.com site down in sunny Miami, Florida! This event is on May 20th from 6-9 pm at the Downtown Miami Hyatt Hotel Regency. If you live in the area, respond to this invite...

I have been utterly submerged in the process of milking our newly freshened dairy goat herd. We are milking 7 goats now, twice a day, whew. We use a machine that requires washing etc so there is still quite a lot of work to do. Since the kids are not all weaned yet, some of...

Sometimes a recipe inspires me to jump up, spend way more energy than I have, to make it immediately. This recipe today was that for me. I watched Mark Bittman’s video on making these non-kosher matzoh which seemed quite easy to make and they look fantastic. There are several things which make a matzoh kosher...

I am part Irish so I have always felt an affinity to St Patricks day. I like it as a mom because its a holiday in early cold spring when you really need it BUT its not all about candy!! I adapted a traditional recipe from this European Cuisines site, it is quite delicious. This...

You have likely heard about the hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) shenanigans afoot. A company that makes HVP – Basic Food Flavors – found that its product was contaminated with the pathogen Salmonella Tennessee (thats a specific flavor of salmonella easily ID’d by genetics and the SAME strain that was involved in a similarly ethically challenged...

[Follow this link for a recipe for Whole Wheat Cheddar Cheese Kefir Irish Soda Bread] St. Patrick’s day is almost here and I feel like I am getting whiplash with how fast this year is passing already! The stores put out St Patrick’s day decorations right after Christmas so by now, all that Chinese import...