We received a box of cranberries from a hunter… and I mean A BOX. I *like* cranberries, but you’d have to eat a lot of turkey to use all those cranberries! I decided to make craisins out of most of them. I pulled out my dehydrator and layered a bunch of cranberries on the shelves. …
Tag: cooking
Roasting Ears
One of the best summer treats there is… fresh corn! One of my favorite ways to cook it? Roasted in the coals of a campfire! Soak your corn in cool water, grab some tongs and some gloves… (beer is optional). Get some good coals going… the best way to do that? Build a log cabin…
Homemade Greek Yogurt
Yesterday’s entry was about making farmer cheese/mozzarella, but what I really started to make was Greek yogurt! I scanned many a recipe… I wanted one that used raw milk since that’s what I had, but many were made with storebought milk. Then I found this easy recipe! Again, I cut it in half, just because…
Comprende?
Spent 80% of today making applestuff… Two big 9×13 pans of apple crisp… Dried apples… Applesauce… I’m pretty tired of peeling apples… and most were even huge softball sized ones, so it went fast! I also supervised Daniel’s cutting up of his antelope for jerky… though I wasn’t much help… I was too scared of…
Sleep Well
Well, while my rhubarb cobbler is bubbling away, I’ll say a few words… Time is tight with the branding set for tomorrow. I flew to town this morning and bought groceries, returning after lunch and I’ve been cooking ever since! Of course, this year I’ve had lots of help, Brandon’s girlfriend M. has sliced, diced,…
It Worked
Before too many days pass, I wanted to share something amazing. It’s entirely different from my usual posts. It’s not about dogs. Or weather. Or Wyoming history. Or farming. Or AI-ing. Or horses. It’s about… everyone sitting down? COOKING. There! I said it! Every once in a while I amaze myself… For Daniel’s birthday, I…
Heaven Forbid!
Honestly. If I buy 48# of cucumbers again… please shoot me. After making applesauce with friends until 11 pm one night, I spent the next day making sweet pickle relish. Eleven pints. Can I really use eleven pints in a year? That’s lots of hot dogs and potato salad and tuna salad… I then ran…
Lost Three
When I said I made gallons of applesauce last night I was *not* exaggerating! The Pepsi’s for scale. They’re big pots. They’re full. Well, pretty much. 23 quarts and 7 pints for Johnny! Today I moved on to sweet pickle relish. I’ve run out of onions and green peppers, so I’ll probably have to switch…
Labor Day or Holiday?
Yup. Long day. No surprise. Actually, things went quite well, we’re just never too speedy about this… We did have to dig a lot of the neighbor’s cows out of our stuff… but other than that… We were good. I guess it just seems long to me because although we arrived home at 5 pm,…
Not Quite Making It
Today was the kind of day that summers should be made of… 72, sunny, and NO WIND! Absolutely perfect! I finished planting my garden… hoping that the frost of the 14th would be the last one until fall! I mowed my lawn and started on the lawn at the Mills place until I ran out…
Preparation
Preparations for branding tomorrow have hit their full stride. The shop is cleaned and ready for weary, hungry workers. The firewood is chopped ready for the branding fire. The pop is chilled and water jugs filled for thirsty cowboys. All vaccinations, paint sticks, sorting sticks, brands, needles, syringes, LA200, sulfa pills, lost eartag replacements, camera…