On cold mornings I like to get up and feed the baby around five, make coffee on the wood stove, and, when the little ones begin to stir, light candles to make breakfast by. Some mornings are met with this Soaked Rye and Oat Breakfast "Cake", a close cousin to baked oatmeal. You know there’s…
Mornings usually start with me boiling water for tea or coffee and then cooking breakfast. A few days a week I throw on a pot of beans that will be our lunch and return again as a side dish to supper. It’s all part of my plan to stretch the (ever-rising) meat budget. School is…
Bread is such a divisive thing these days. What once was considered the staff of life is now either a wonder food or a wicked indulgence. I’ve been on both sides of that fence and I’m happy to be back smack dab in the middle where bellies need to be filled, bodies need to…
In our kitchen these days you’ll find… a wooden bowl full of eggs – some ours, some our neighbor’s, all fresh and yummy. some quick lacto-ferments. These days I am not fermenting for food storage so much as to have a quick high-enzyme addition to our meals on hand. These southwestern fermented carrot sticks were…
