After harvesting a nice haul of produce from our gardens, we were all hungry and needing some lunch to refuel us for the afternoon’s projects. I couldn't resist sharing a picture of my little helper, a future gardener in the making!A friend recently gave us a dozen eggs from her chickens so I decided tomake us a tasty Garden Harvest Scramble. I get giddy with excitement when I … [Read more...]
Foodie Friday: Making Homemade Cream Cheese
I never realized how easy it is to make homemade cream cheese. Homemade cream cheese is so much more tasty than store bought, has less added "junk" and is cheaper to make than buying the pre-made kind.Now that I got the hang of making piima yogurt, which really is super easy, I am starting to experiment with it. It’s amazing to me all the ways I’ve been able to use it in my … [Read more...]
Foodie Friday: Piima Yogurt Tarter Sauce
Making homemade tarter sauce is so easy and is much healthier when using a yogurt base. Yesterday after posting about our new adventure in making piima yogurt, I was trying to figure out what to make for supper. I had a craving for fish and chips and figured that was the perfect opportunity to try our piima yogurt in a recipe. I've been making homemade tarter sauce the last few … [Read more...]
Making Piima Yogurt
Making Piima Yogurt is so easy and is saving our family so much money by not having to buy yogurt at the store! Several years ago in our favorite magazine, The Backwoodsman, there was a how to article on making yogurt. I was intrigued but the process seemed fairly intensive with the need to have a yogurt maker machine and at the time I was not consuming enough yogurt to make it … [Read more...]