So many recipes… so little time

I will admit that one of my hobbies is perusing the food blog world for new recipes to try. If you ever find yourself bored, just head on over to Tastespotting and allow yourself to drool over the gorgeous food blogging photography for a few minutes. Always perks me up :)
Everytime I come across a [...]

Sunday’s Thoughts

Here are a collection of my thoughts for the day:

I was excited to find this creamer today at Target. I have no idea if it will compare to Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte, but it’s worth a shot and so much cheaper! Should make my commute through farmland this week more delicious :)
I also picked [...]

Saturday Happenings

Good evening!
We’ve had a good Saturday so far. I was quite surprised to sleep until 9am this morning! The Knoxville Farmers Market opened at 9, but by the time we got ready, out the door and drove into knoxville (~30-40 minutes) it was a little after 11.
The market was actually very quiet today – [...]

Pumpkins and Prostitutes

As part of fun fall food, I have been trying out new pumpkin recipes. Last weekend, in Nashville, I treated myself to my first Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte. A great drink, certainly, but something I probably wouldn’t order all the time. Today, I stumbled upon a recipe to make your own Pumpkin Spice Latte at [...]

What to do with 42 locally grown tomatoes?

We found ourselves returning from the mountains of North Carolina with this large basket, brimming with locally grown cornfield beans and tomatoes. What to do with it all?

I decided to pull out the tomatoes and see how many it had. It looked like there weren’t too many, maybe 10?
 

Yeah, try 42!! Turns out the [...]

Happy Monday!

Good Monday Morning everyone!
Hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. I spent a good chunk of yesterday making mass quantities of homemade tomato sauce. During our visit to North Carolina, we were given a basket filled with cornfield beans and 42 tomatoes! Once I get my camera and laptop up and running I’ll have to [...]

Happy Weekend!

Yay for the weekend being here!
And we have a visitor coming to the farm for a brief visit, which is always enjoyable. Yes, that would be The Boy. I hope he’s able to find us without too much trouble in the dark!
My mother is taking the opportunity to bake another of her lemon chess [...]

My Delicious Almond Butter

Greetings!
Yesterday I finished off my container of homemade almond butter :( so I dragged out my CuisinArt from its box in the garage, and whipped up another batch. Thought I’d take some photos during the process to show you how easy it is :)
First, roast a bunch of almonds. Easy enough. Pour the nuts onto [...]

Please excuse the ranting…

This afternoon has not been very good so far…
After all my phone calls and emails, I finally heard back from the job that I so desperately wanted (and foolishly thought was perfect). A simple email to the effect of “thank you for the email. the position has been filled.” lovely. Thank you so much. I [...]

My celebrity kitchen

I was flipping through the TV stationt this afternoon (all of the 5 or so we get here without cable) and managed to find Julia Child, chopping heads of fish on PBS. So I sat and thoroughly enjoyed her bouillabaisse  episode of “The French Chef” from the early 1960s.
And what, you may ask, is so [...]