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The Swedish Pancakes Of My Childhood [Recipe]

February 15, 2015 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

The best recipes often come with a story behind them. This week, looking for a nice basic red sauce, I came across the much-lauded recipe by Marcella Hazan that’s incredibly simple — so simple it’s surprised countless food bloggers with its deliciousness and depth. Food bloggers being who they are, this prompted them to tell their…

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Filed Under: Family, Food & Drink, Livestock, Recipe Tagged With: chickens, comfort food, eggs, pancakes, recipes, Swedish pancakes

Our First Livestock Loss

October 12, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

It was bound to happen, of course. We prepared ourselves by buying eight chicks, when we only wanted and expected six full-grown hens. Either they would die in chick-hood, we thought, or one of them would turn out to be a cockerel — as sexing chickens at one day old is an inexact science. Or…

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Filed Under: Current Affairs, Food & Drink, Livestock, Nature Tagged With: backyard chicken, chickens, dead chicken, dog and chickens, livestock, loss

Ode To The Egg

September 27, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

I wandered out to the chicken coop yesterday afternoon to make a cursory inspection of the shelter and its environs, and, when I opened up the top, I wasn’t too surprised to see two eggs — one in each of the top two nest boxes. We had put the pretend eggs into the nest boxes…

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Filed Under: Food & Drink, Kitchen Gardening, Livestock, Nature Tagged With: backyard chickens, chickens, divine ingredients, eggs, farm-to-table

The Edge Of Autumn

September 13, 2014 by Pamela Parker Caird Leave a Comment

Yesterday, temps were in the 90s, but all afternoon, we heard the howling of the wind. It’s probably the way our house is situated, or maybe the metal roof, but when the wind comes through, it sounds super intense and can be a little frightening. Considering how hot it’s been lately, though, we welcomed the…

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Filed Under: Current Affairs, Food & Drink, Kitchen Gardening, Livestock, Nature Tagged With: blender, chickens, gardening, green smoothies, homestead, kitchen gardening, Sand Holler Farm

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