Monday, February 11, 2013

Day 36 of 365

Rain
  • Low: 46 F
  • High: 56 F
Rainfall total for 2 days: 0.85"

A kitchen day:
  • Continued simmering bone broth (will can tomorrow)
  • Rendered the last of the goat fat.
  • made butter (& buttermilk)
  • baked a spice cake with frozen persimmons, fresh eggs, kefir (recipe here)
  • ground corn meal

Harvested mangels for the goats

8 eggs! from 10 hens

Eating the food:
Breakfast
  • butter (on store bought farina)
  • coffee cream
Lunch
  • eggs scrambled with browned cracklins
  • butter
  • coffee cream
  • strawberry jam
  • homemade bread (but not homegrown)
Dinner
  • roasted turnips & sweet potatoes
  • meatball sandwiches (meatballs not ours but the spaghetti sauce was)
  • sauerruben
  • coffee cream
  • and of course the cake

2 comments:

  1. Had to look up mangels. I always learn something here.

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    1. The goats really like them. Mine didn't grow as big as advertised, but I plan to keep them in the garden. I've tried sugar beets too, but they didn't sprout.

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