Tag Archives: food
The Chickens are Introduced to New Foods
Why i love Japan
3 hours from here sits a little store that imports packaged foods from Japan. Now i have spent most of my life eating fruits and vegetables from half way around the world. If you want to gain my heart just show up with a jack fruit or a lotus root in hand and i will …
A Trip to the Asian Market
I had to drive 3 hours to get to the dentist. It was time to go to the big city. I decided that while i was there i would do something i hadn’t done in years, visit my old favorite asian market. Family members convinced me i ought to try the new markets they had …
Stress
This semester i let everything on the homestead go. I had no choice. The interior of the tiny house is covered in dirt. The clothes and sheets are as well. The spiders have webbed up everything. The paint i bought to redo the house trim that’s exposed to the elements and had the old paint …
Misfits Market
Well, at some point the food delivery service i was using became too expensive for me to afford. They offered no explanation as to why the prices had gone up and when i inquired, they had no comment as to the reason but suggested i check out their low income options, which upon investigation were …
A Miscellaneous Update
Though things are rather uncertain at the moment, Sili and Cashew are unaware and living their best life on the land. They are operating business as usual while i stress and fret over work and school and sometimes that’s very helpful. i cancelled our subscription to the fedex food delivery service. The price for foods …
Quarantine Kitchen continued
Quarantine Kitchen
i found a little onion growing where last year’s attempt at a garden had been. It was barely buried and had partially frozen so i dug it up. It was a little one but it tasted just like a regular onion.
Winter Quarantine Kitchen
The first image is a japanese sweet potato my mother brought me for the holidays. Japanese sweet potatoes are like sugar in your mouth and they are firmer and hold up better throughout the cooking process than the orange kind i am used to seeing in the stores. If you cook them for an hour …
Homesteading on 2 Acres - a Girl and her Dogs 