10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
ISAIAH 55:10-11
2c warm water + 4T whey + 2c regular organic oats (192g). Stir & cover overnight on countertop.
Tomorrow we’ll bring 2c water & 1t sea salt to a boil, stir in oat mixture, reduce heat to simmer w/ lid on saucepan for 3 minutes.
Then we stir in a big glob of raw butter, 1/2c (112g) evaporated cane juice, 1.5t sorghum, & a sprinkle of cinnamon. Also yummy w/ some of our cream poured over top of each bowl! 🙂
Isn’t this adorable? We forgot all about this, until today, lol! When our cats can’t get into a bucket to lap up remaining calf milk, they soak their paw in the milk & lick it off… When we saw Blake doing it today, we all started laughing and said, “THE PAW STRAW!” all at the same time! 🙂 Oh, these barn cats are just soooo entertaining…
We’ve been watching these cocoons on Grandma & Grandpa’s bushes all through the winter. Here’s a pic of them in January:
And here are some pics from today – little baby praying mantises… God never ceases to amaze me through the beauty of His Creation! 🙂
We do our best to try and follow the Weston A. Price Foundation’s diet recommendations. One of those is taking 1/2t of fermented cod liver oil every day. We take a lower dose because we eat lots of our raw butter! 🙂 If you are ever interested in joining us on a group order through Green Pasture, just let us know. We get a volume discount, and our next order probably isn’t far away…
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We do our best to follow their diet… totally a work-in-progress, but we are definitely making progress!
Made some cream cheese so we could make our favorite frosting… 🙂
We place a coffee filter in a strainer & pour our plain yogurt in it. Just let it sit all day or overnight & the whey will have all separated out. We have lots of uses for the whey: soaked oatmeal and lacto-fermented saurkraut or kimchee are just a few of our favorites. 🙂
Last Wednesday we split up the cows that we put together in Gondor the day before. We moved the summer-beef & heifers-to-breed up to Gray Heaven & left the dairy girls in Gondor. In the 1st pic, you can see the yearlings (last year’s calves) watching on the left in The Shire. Little did they know, they’d be joining them shortly, lol! 🙂 The 2nd pic shows the first group enjoying the grass in Gray Heaven.
Next we moved the yearlings to join the others in Gray Heaven. The less groups we have, the easier it is for Mike to move temporary fence for rotationally grazing each group…BUT, too many in a group can be a challenge, too. So, 2 groups it is. 🙂
The third pic is the yearlings on their way, & in the last one they are entering through the gate of Heaven. 🙂
Mmmmm – sounds fantastic! Thanks, Jill! 🙂
http://pathsofwrighteousness.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/real-food-no-sugar-vanilla-ice-cream/
I’m not a big fan of “making” lasagna… I just don’t make it enough to be consistent with it – it’s either too soupy or too dry. But, I DO like making stuffed shells – especially when we have fresh ricotta & mozzarella cheese made (or last year’s frozen cheese needing to be used up). 🙂
Why is it that each time we go to make big batches of stuffed shells to freeze, there are NONE to be found in our local grocery stores?? I know – it probably means we should just make homemade noodles, but I don’t have the time to tackle that today, sooooo – welcome, lasagna rolls! We made our regular filling for stuffed shells, spread it on the partially cooked lasagna noodles, & rolled ’em up! Fun & easy – tasted pretty good, too. 🙂
Side note: one lasagna roll uses lots more filling than we’d put in a shell. We have lots leftover that we freeze – perfect for 2 growing boys who are ALWAYS hungry, lol! 🙂
Here’s our recipe for the filling:
4 eggs, beaten
4 oz. romano or parmesan cheese
4T dried parsley
2t sea salt
1t pepper
2 lbs. shredded mozzarella cheese
2 lbs. ricotta cheese (or cottage cheese)
Perhaps a future post will have pics of when we make our homemade ricotta, mozzarella, & cottage cheeses this year… 🙂
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