This is a sampling of what comes out of the chicken coop at Tulipwood.
Very strange indeed.
On the left is a "pullet egg," in between are some version of medium and large eggs that you would find in the grocery store, and on the right is a "double yolk" egg.
Pullets are chickens that have just started…
I found my version of gold tucked away in an old drawer. It was a tiny black book. And when I read the cover, I had to know more.
So I investigated, and guess what I discovered... this was my great-great grandmother's recipe book!
Her name was Evelyn Day Bruner. She lived in Brooklyn but was born…
When you have eighteen chickens and thirteen Guinea hens in your life, there are a lot of eggs to contend with. It is definitely a nice problem to have. I went on a quest recently to find eggs in the store with yolks as bright as the ones my chickens produce, and I have yet…
Black-eyed peas are one of those things I only think about on December 31st when I superstitiously rush around looking for them. You see, it was ingrained in me from the time I was a small plump infant, that this is the thing you're supposed to eat on New Year's Day for good luck. I've…
I have a mold. I don't know where it came from. It just appeared one day. It's always in the way, it doesn't fit anywhere nicely. It was suggested at one point that we throw it out, but it wouldn't go. So today I finally used it, in honor of our Christmas party this evening.
I…
I am always so impressed with people who produce oceans of Christmas cookies of various kinds and dole them out in charming tins. The woman who took care of me growing up has about twenty or so kinds of cookes that she makes every year. She doesn't break a sweat. They are all very different…
There are few things more gratifying than cooking a meal entirely from things you have grown. This Thanksgiving we spent as much time outdoors collecting ingredients as we did indoors cooking them.
First, we cut these baby brussels sprouts from the garden. They were strange things this year. We waited and waited for them to get…
I want to share with you the strange things that are coming out of my garden.
This carrot for example, which looks like a chicken:
Or this scale-tipping carrot...a 1.125 pounder.
There was a 1.5 pounder even, but I ate it. I turned it into carrot soup.
I never think of carrot soup except in the moment that I'm eating…
Another milestone this week at Tulipwood! The gals are starting to lay eggs! Can you believe it? It feels like just a few months ago that I was posting pictures of these tiny little things, and they are now laying eggs? Well, at least one of them is.... and they are very tiny. Look at them compared to one of Lucy's…