WHAT!!!.. 11 years! WOW!

Wow! 11 YEARS AGO, I wrote my first post..  

Creamy Rice Salad

1 cup of uncooked Red Rice (which if you have never had is as close as I have found to wild rice in taste without the very heavy cost to go with, its a good chewy and nutty Rice) Cooked per instructions. Then put in the fridge to get cold
1/4 green pepper diced
10 mushrooms diced
1/8 Large Purple Onion Diced
1 Stock Celery Diced
1 Large Leaf of Purple Cabbage Diced
1 clove of Garlic-Diced

The veggies were fried up till just starting to soften, then spread out and cooled in the fridge till cold.

Dressing
2 Heaping TBS of my homemade mayo
1 Heaping TBS of my homemade Greek Style Yogurt
1 TBS White Wine Vinergar
1 Tsp Raw Honey
1 Tsp of my Dried Basil (the spice one)
1/2 tsp of Dried Ginger, Black Pepper, Salt

Mix together the Rice, Veggies and Dressing, Add 1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds and 8 half whole raw walnuts chopped.

I took a pie pumpkin, Cut it so that the bottom will be 3/4, with top 1/3, cleaned out the insides (don’t forget to keep the pumpkin seeds for later use) and wrapped it up in foil and baked it till just done.

Split apart, drain any extra water inside it and allow to become cold.. Take Salad and fill the inside bowl, then top to be able to serve, just lift the lid and vola..

This salad can be eaten as side for sure but as it was to be a starter, I brought a fresh baked loaf of my sweet, soft and tangy buttermilk bread that I made yesterday. So I will cut up the fresh bread to be served with the topping of the Salad..

There it is and in many ways it perfect.. it is my own photo, I still try and take almost all the photos used on my blog, (its now common for most blogs to use “stock” photos as its so much less work and they are all sized up and ready to go) I was finding my way on how I would write out my recipes and I still do the same to date..  I had already started using farmgal and home made bases, I would later get to the point that I would also put up two recipes, the farmgal farm one and one based more on things gotten from the store.

I still write in personal way, I have always been part journal, part homestead, part garden part photography.. I like to intermix the posts.. I can not see that changing in the future.. 

Thank you to all my readers over the years, the ones that have come and stayed, the ones that have come an gone, the single one time viewer.. Every single one of you helped make this blog!

To my regulars.. you are wonderful! 

Onward we go