Violet Syrup and Ginger Beer (works in progress)

Remember all my foraging and brewing adventures? Well… I currently have about a pound and a half of buckwheat sprouting for my next GF beer experiment. Fun! But it doesn’t look like anything special yet, so let’s focus on the other works in progress 🙂 About a week ago, I started a ginger bug. You may…

Foraging Fun!

I have always said that I want as much of my yard to make food as possible. I garden a little more every year, and there are wild blackberries in my woods, but I’ve decided to take it a step further and put the wildflower to good use 🙂 My current home brewing kick has…

Adventures in Homebrewing… the backstory

Back in December 2008, my boyfriend at the time gave me a homebrew kit for Christmas. It was awesome. I recruited all my friends to start saving bottles, and once we were on track to having 50 I made an oatmeal stout, which was delicious. They kept saving bottles for me (it was grad school… you know…

Millet with Massaged Kale and Roasted Chickpeas

I know, I know… I haven’t posted in a while. My time at home has been mostly spent cleaning, super boring adult stuff like doing taxes, and fun things like watching the chickens learn what their wings are for and playing with the rest of the pets. Oh, and I found a roommate! The spring…

I’m now a chicken momma!

I’ll keep this brief, but just wanted to announce to the world that I brought four sweet little chicks home yesterday! First up is Hedy, a Black Australorp. As soon as I picked her up at the feed store, she curled up in my scarf and tried to take a nap. I instantly fell in…