We've been getting 8-10 eggs daily lately from our sweet girls. We've been sharing them with friends and family, but I wanted to try out a method of preserving the eggs that I've read about, but never tried before - water glassing.
29 September 2024
22 September 2024
Purple Reign
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter treated me to some ube honey yogurt from pinkberry. It was delicious and a welcome treat on a hot tailgate day, but I thought I can make this! So I did.
04 July 2024
Frog Fruition
Today I got a "do over" in the yardening arena. I've been wanting to plant some ground cover around my chicken run but I didn't have success with the creeping thyme that I planted at the end of May. I thought that Frog Fruit would be a really good option because it seems very hardy in other people's yard so...
Frog fruit is a fast growing, low maintenance, and long blooming herbaceous plant that attracts bees, wasps, and butterflies.
Last fall I was gifted a welcome mat sized cutting of Phyla nodiflora and I put it in my front flower bed to overwinter. It didn't survive its new digs, but I thought I might have another go at it again this year. This morning I received more Frog Fruit cuttings from my friend's amazing pollinator garden. I took pictures of what it could look like when (if) it grows up in my yard.
04 June 2024
Q: What's Growing On...
A-Existing: Fredonia grapes, hops, figs, lemongrass (overwintered in my front bed and was relocated to the chicken run border), lilacs, peonies, roses, hydrangeas (successfully propagated), butterfly weed
A-new to the garden: My Chaos Garden is a bust as far as I can tell. I dusted the area with the seeds given to me and I got bupkis. Part of the problem is that we dug around in the same area to set up a post (reusing segments of an old flag pole) for a shade sail for the pond and the seeds may have been buried a little too deep in the end. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have 2 peanut plants surviving currently from the 9 or so peanuts that I sowed! The squirrels feasted on most of what I put in the ground.
15 May 2024
Burrito Prep
I have been trying to prepare myself for the increased demand for food at home, and wanting something healthy(er than Taco Bell) for quick meals and I happened upon a video for preparing high protein cheesy chicken and rice burritos in the crockpot. I am DOWN for that! I didn't have every single ingredient on hand so I had to make substitutions, but the family LOVED them. We ate them for dinner AND have a few in the freezer ready to pop into the microwave when hunger hits. I WILL be making more of these soon.
The recipe makes 18 burritos with 32g protein and 12g fat.