We had a bee swarm around here at Tulipwood earlier this week. It all happened very quickly -- we were planting vegetables in the garden, toiling and sweating away because somehow we decided it would be a good idea to plant 25 varieties this year.Think it was a cold long winter?We are embracing the sun…
I could show you this fully finished step-by-step recipe a few months from now, [scroll down, I've added the finished steps!] but what good would that be if you had to wait many months for dandelions to come back around? So instead, I'm going to give you the recipe and show you the step-by-step up…
Disclaimer: This is one of my "Not for the Faint of Heart" posts. If you fall into that category, please come back another day when I'll be talking about pudding.******************Since it is turkey season, and since I found myself with two turkeys to haul off the field not too long ago, I thought I'd show…
It's crawfish season in Arkansas. Maybe it's crawfish season everywhere, I don't know, but I participated in the eating of 25 pounds of the little red lobsters and it was a fun affair. They were from "Grandma's Best" after all, and boiled in a whole lot of salt water.Actually, I like a crawfish boil for…
When Lewis and Clark set out on their Corps of Discovery they struggled to find fresh meat, especially during the coldest winter months. The meat they obtained came from hunting and fishing, through trade, or through the kindness of American Indians. The Corps ate everything from dog, to whale, to horse, and because fresh meat…
I used to think of it as the strange stuff I'd see in strange gas stations on my strange cross country road trips. It was usually in stick form, a long tubular stick, wrapped in a coating of plastic, with a peculiar name like... Slim Jim, not because it made you slim, but because it…
I have fond, peculiar memories of a glass jar sitting on the fireplace mantle, holding a liquid that constantly reinvented itself. It changed by the day, by the hour sometimes, from something strange to something more recognizable. This liquid, as it turns out, is intensely good for you, a drinkable yogurt full of good bacteria,…
I have a friend named Nate. The first time I heard about him, I was told he was brewing beer in his bathtub.I was intrigued.Nate also makes wine.Nate is also a scientist. This lead me to believe that wine making is over my head. But it turns out it's not really.I spent some time with…
This post should really be called, "How to Butcher a Pig in Flip Flops."You see, I was having breakfast. A Greek yogurt with strawberry jam to be exact. And it occurred to me that I needed to butcher the Javelina if I was going to have it for dinner.So I marched out to the barn…