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I guess my brain went blink and forgot to blink back.
Does this ever happen to you. I decided to make a pound cake yesterday morning. It uses NINE eggs and my little cluckers are laying so well that even though I give away four dozen eggs a week and...
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Real Hens Eat Quiche.
Hey it just started to rain. Oh no, its gone. Well there was a wee bit of something. It was spitting. Though the sky spitting on me is not a sweet analogy. We have not had rain since the middle …...
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I am not keeping it
Well I came back from walking the dogs down the creek path early this morning and look what I found trying to haul its miserable limping cobweb covered self, up my verandah steps. Crying piteously....
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Egg Nog is not only for Christmas, and T learns about gas – for mw&g
When we were kids and living in that big beach house, there was a period when my mother became unwell. For quite some time actually. And during the times when she was in bed I would take over the...
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Little Party Nibbles: Mini Apple Sponge Cakes
My sister is having a few parties in NZ this month. And as I am 8,961 miles away (14,421 km) I am not sure I can make it. So I am going to join in by sending her a couple … Continue reading →
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Shuffling the cards of cows.
On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow. Just a little. Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well. When I counted the hay bales the other...
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The lovely tiredness that comes from good hard work
I am not used to working so hard anymore, my body has gone into winter mode but this brief respite from the cold must not be wasted. So I shoveled the proverbial almost all day yesterday. A new pile...
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How to steam eggs – no need to boil at all.
I have always had trouble peeling boiled eggs. No matter what method I tried I could not do it. Every egg I peeled looked .. well .. pitted, mauled, savaged. I never had this problem when I was young...
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I can’t find Pania the Peahen .. now what could she be up to?
Tui the peahen is still on her nest (her eggs are due to hatch on July 2nd) and Pania the other peahen has slowly become more and more absent. And now I have no idea where she is. There are …...
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Custard Squares – Thank-Fully
Our darling Ronnie, who has been with The Fellowship for years now, observed to me yesterday (In the comments lounge where all the best conversations of my day happen except the ones with Sheila of...
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Eggs
Look at Sheila waiting quietly for her dinner while Poppy stomps about shrieking through all the dishes, making it impossible for me to retrieve them. Usually I have all the bowls out of their area...
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SUN!!!
Yes! For the first time in Months, we had a sunny day all day. The whole day. And tomorrow is the shortest day. Oh JOY! Here is something I found on the internet. I don’t know what half that means....
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Red Hot Chili Eggs
No, we are not going to eat eggs with chili, that actually does not sound very nice at all. I fed the CHICKENS the red hot chilis and look! This is what happens when you feed the last of the chilis...
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Sulky pig
Lots of farmy pictures today. Tane was pleased I was home. One piece of sorry business. Tima was her usual chubby happy self though she had had another miscarriage sometime during the night I arrived...
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Letter from Alexis in USA
Hi everyone, I’m so excited to be a guest writer at thekitchensgarden & glad you have stopped in with us today. I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about why I starting homesteading &...
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I had a chicken catcher visit yesterday. A young man who spent a couple of hours sneaking up on the runaway chickens catching them and returning them to the chicken coop. So to date there is only one...
View ArticleAUNTY’S RICE SALAD
AUNTY’S BROWN RICE SALAD A great salad – the trick to this salad is adding the soy sauce and onions to the hot brown rice and letting them steam and soak and cool together. My sister first introduced...
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I was taking photographs of the Kitchens Garden Retreat yesterday. My little airbnb apartment. I have guests coming in today, so while it looked so pretty, I thought I would take some shots and update...
View ArticleEGGS GALORE
The chickens are supplying us with at least three dozen eggs a day sometimes more. One dozen a day goes to the pigs and the others are sold. Last week I sold fifteen dozen eggs. The pigs had a few...
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I READ once that every millionaire has more than one avenue of income. Not putting all her eggs in one basket so to speak. Making a little money from a farm is not too hard but making a PROFIT is near...
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