Accidental Homesteader

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  • Granola is a scam.

    Granola is a scam.

    I’m cheap. And I like granola and yogurt. It seems like you get the tiniest amount of granola in those… Read More

  • Guest Star and Cooking

    Guest Star and Cooking

    So last weekend, we tried to shock the well – we failed – but we still didn’t have water. We… Read More

  • Making Healthy Eating Easier

    Making Healthy Eating Easier

    So last week the grocery store had chicken breasts on sale. We can’t eat them all quickly enough to make… Read More

  • Keeping up.

    Last night we had chicken and veggies and a salad with carrots, romaine and cabbage. Today’s lunch was the last… Read More

  • Dinner 2

    Dinner two went without a hitch – beef stew. Used beef from the local meat market, Yoder Meats. We buy… Read More

  • Dinner 1/Brunch 1

    Trying to use my produce up so here we go. Dinner was a minor bust. They didn’t have mahi-mahi at… Read More

  • First Grocery Store After Recommitting

    All right, I already said that I’m recommitting to good habits. Two are cooking more and wasting less. To that… Read More

  • Slightly better…

    Yesterday was beautiful. I ended up walking around my property for a while, and made lovely lamb chops from Clark… Read More

  • Good News from the Egg Front

    So yesterday we found the secret cache of eggs that our chickens have been laying. Since we didn’t know how… Read More

  • Making a Chili Ristra in 10 Easy Steps 

    Making a Chili Ristra in 10 Easy Steps 

    On our epic trip back from Colorado, we came across a roadside farm stand with chilis, so *of course* we… Read More