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Peach Pie O My
I love making pies when the fruit is in season an then freezing them and baking them off when it gets cold outside.. This one was made with fresh ontario peaches, in my homemade pie crust, but as you can … Continue reading
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ABC Soup Recipe
Now you all know that Campbell’s ABC soup, its the one in the can with a little yellow chicken broth, a bit of tiny pasta and if you look hard enough one tiny piece of chicken in it LOL Well … Continue reading
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Turkey Bone Broth Recipe
1 Cooked Turkey carcass and all the drippings from the pan 1 Lg Carrot- Cut into Chunks 1 Lg Onion-Cut into Chunks 1 Lg Celery- Cut into Chunks 3 cloves of garlic 1 Bay Leaf 1/4 cup of any of … Continue reading
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Homemade Pizza #1 Turkey Fiesta
Homemade Pizza Dough, of any flavor, today was 12 grain Homemade Salsa as the base 6 large mushrooms sliced 1/2 a large pepper-this one was yellow 1 1/2 chopped cooked white turkey meat 1 cup crumbled mozza Dill, Sprinkle of … Continue reading
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Elderberry Syrup Recipe
We are blessed to have wild Elderberries growing on the farm when we moved here, we have since given a helping hand to create another 15 plus bushes to grow at different spots on the farm. I made a number … Continue reading
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Celery Soup Recipe
Well, its been a morning of hop-a-long with my foot still quite sore with its lovely nail hole in it, but its healing Wanted a hot breakfast, and I decided a number of years ago that soup was a good … Continue reading
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Winter Eating Challenge
DH and I have taken on the challange of eating one meal per week of made totally of local food, the basic rule is all parts of the meal must be grown/produced from within a 150 miles of where you are … Continue reading
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Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit- An Illustrated Encyclopedia
This is my first book review, and its by Matthew Biggs, Jekka Mcvicar an Bob Flowerdew, published by Firefly. We call it the bible, and its big and heavy and stuffed full of good info, I was sitting here looking … Continue reading
Foot and Nails do not go together!
It was a crazy busy weekend working to get things done, and late afternoon, I missed the board that was in the barn gutter and stepped down and straight onto a nail, which went though my boot, sock and part … Continue reading
Baby Oxen in Training
So first, its good to say, that a baby calf is not really a ox til its at least four years old, and normally its a altered male.. but it does not have to be.. a Ox can be a … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 