When it comes to simple home dairy, it can be easy to think of each recipe as a separate entity that stands alone. But really, most recipes are slight variations of others, and it’s the small details that might lead you to one cheese or another. If you know how to make yogurt, you’re not…
until the sun comes back
If I were here to give you a tip (tip being the choice over recipe, which is the other thing that makes me useful here), it would be this: Now is the time to light candles. Every day. This past week where I am, we fell back in time, and the world got dark. I…
carrot cake with maple glaze
There is a moment when the cake has cooled, the dishes are done (or at least soaking) and the time has come to breathe the cake out of the pan. Breathe being the only useful verb I can find for this process, which is the scary moment of bundt cakes (silly as it feels to say bundt, it…
the terrifying bundt (and a giveaway)
There is a moment when the cake has cooled, the dishes are done (or at least soaking) and the time has come to breathe the cake out of the pan. Breathe being the only useful verb I can find for this process, which is the scary moment of bundt cakes (silly as it feels to say bundt, it…
peak
Just this past week, that thing happened that I forget about every year, when the sky is less blue and instead becomes a deep, deep almost-black gray. It makes the trees glow. This is also when people start burning wood in their wood stoves, and so the color combination smells like woodsmoke. This makes me…
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