Recently, BlogHer and Häagen-Dazs® asked me and a few other bloggers to create original recipes (not just desserts) using their ice cream as an ingredient. How can one possibly say no to that? I said yes and then, to the delight of my children, I went out and bought quite a few containers of Häagen-Dazs....

As you likely know, we try to grow and enjoy wholesome food at home, making us frugal foodies. We raise and milk our own dairy goats. We raise our own laying chickens for eggs. We are getting a family Jersey cow this fall. We will have cow and goat milk next spring. I blog about...

Last year, in our garden (see our organic and permaculture homesteading gardening blog here – Humble Garden), we had a catastrophic tomato failure when I lost all 60 home sprouted heirloom tomatoes to the early blight. I had a bonfire and then tried to forget but failed miserably as I mourned their loss all year....

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...

So by now, even MY garden (Humble Garden) is starting to produce, after months of rain of biblical proportions. My pickling cucumbers are growing, green beans and lemon cukes are whats for supper, and zucchinis are starting to really outpace our intake! Anyone who gardens will eventually need to preserve or put up some of...

(Lactobacillus god – Sandorkraut) . A couple of weeks ago, while twittering, I heard about this conference at Boston University called “The Future of Food: Transatlantic Perspectives” which will happen this coming weekend (May 8-9, 2009). Its sort of shocking how close I came to totally missing out on this conference. I have pasted at...

Took this video out in our goat shed in our backyard the other day....

This soup is extra good because I am using really local food, namely, Dandy the really bad rooster (as seen below). He could NOT play nice in the chicken yard, being brutal to the girls and also to us if we strayed too...

Raising your own chickens in your own backyard means having VERY fresh eggs and, should you so choose, fresh meat on occasion. If you have roosters (which are not necessary unless you want to eat fertile eggs, love roosters, or want baby chickens) you will also be assured some drama. Barley, that big orange chicken...

I am utterly wiped. I just killed & butchered 6 chickens (5 meat chickens and one very bad sumatra rooster who had attacked my kids one too many times). Two are now on to boil, to make stock and chicken sandwiches for supper. The other 4 will also be boiled to make heaping amounts of...