Just before Hannah was born, I fell into some baking, specifically rye flour baking. It’s no secret that we like rye flour baked goods what since I spent a couple of years, off and on, developing the recipes in 100% Rye with everything from soaked and sourdough breads to some of my favorite honey-sweetened brownies…
It was suppertime and I had my usual conversation with 4.5 year old Ruthie. “What’s for dinner?” I asked, mostly rhetorically but still looking for a little inspiration. “Can I make dinner?” she asked, not so much interested in making decisions as making a watermelon pie. “Hmm… how about you help Mama make dinner?” I…
One thing you find out quick when building a homestead is that you don’t just snap your fingers and suddenly have an influx of homegrown food. It takes time… often, or at least in our case, a lot of time. And because some years there are garden bounty and some years not so much, we…
We eat beans in one form or another on most days of the week. Black beans, lentils, pinto beans, red beans, garbanzo beans; you name it. I find them to be a great friend to the large family table on a budget. They are inexpensive but they can get boring or even hard to eat…
