Last Thursday I had gone to my friend's town to meet her to stitch for the day. We alternate - she comes here one week and I go there one week and we're a little over an hour apart. When I got home last week, it was about 4 p.m. and Vince wanted to run to Carthage, eat at the hospital and pick up something he needed from Lowe's. We didn't realize that was the day the hospital was having their ...
MH 1860 Progress
I think I already said that my plan when I started this was just to try Vickie Clayton's linen, stitch a bit, then go back to Love is the Key and finish it but once I got started with MH 1860, I decided . . why leave another WIP not finished so I stuck with it and when it's finished, I'll go back to Love is the Key and get it finished. Here's where I am now on MH 1860. Thee dark spot on ...
Bacon Grease
I grew up with my grandma and mom using bacon grease for pretty much everything except pie crust and then they used lard. My grandma had homemade butter, which as kids, we called "real butter". Mom used margarine in the tubs so real butter at my grandma's was such a treat. For seasoning beans or cooking onions or garlic, it was always bacon grease. I had always saved bacon grease and used it like ...
Jerusalem Artichoke
Yesterday Vince dug up two of the Jerusalem Artichokes (sun chokes). There's no telling how many area out there to be harvested. Maybe I'll keep track this year of how many we harvest. It's best to wait til after a hard frost or freeze before using these. We did have a 24 degree night a few weeks (maybe a month) ago but I had planned to wait til we get some cold weather to start harvesting ...
New to Me Sourdough Method
There are plenty (like everyone!) of folks who know more about sourdough bread making than I do but I've always wondered why you feed the starter, let it rise and then fall and then fall and that's when you use it. Normally, I will feed my starter the night before when I'm going to make bread the next day. I can see on the sides of the jar how far it rose and then, it fell. In my head, it ...
Green Tomato Curry Recipe (of sorts)
The green tomato curry recipe . . I watched a video of (That 1870's Homestead) and copied what she was doing, then I read a bunch of other recipes and tweaked the recipe a little. It isn't really a recipe - just my notes that may or may not make sense to any of you. This recipe makes A LOT! It's what I used for canning so I hope you can decipher my thoughts, cut the recipe down to a better size ...