Confession: I am a forager. I just realized this while rereading The Backyard Homestead. What fun! I now have a hip title for the otherwise hillbilly practice of scrounging iffy edibles from the wild. In my early years we went mushroom hunting—morel, fairy ring, meadow, puffball and shaggy mane. And berrying—blackberries, raspberries, and wild strawberries. […]
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Thank you so much for your responses! I am in email dialogue with a few of you. Computing… Computing… Compiling… Soon, some more thoughts on blogging. For tonight, Jesus is telling me to publish this, for one of you. ***** What does complete surrender look like? I always thought it meant an open book. An
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Today I made my first butter ever. I am absurdly proud of this little pat. I blended and rinsed and squeezed and rinsed. Well well. And it tastes not so bad as I thought, after the smell of the ripened cream prepared me for the worst. But it’s doughy white. Like Ma in Little House
Confession: The weather is 13 degrees Fahrenheit in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and according to weather.com it feels like 1°. But it’s March 5, and today I saw the robins. Here’s a sweet idea for welcoming spring. Your favorite cupcake recipe + green-tinted frosting + sugared marshmallow Peeps = kiddo happiness, big time. Pretty self-explanatory, really. If
I apologize for the delay. I have learned my lesson and from now on will substitute “more next time” in place of “more tomorrow.” Where was I? Ah yes. What if instead of arranging our goals around our weight, we arranged them around our habits? ***** There are several facts of the matter that I
Confession: I feel stupid about this and I’m truly not trying to string you along, but I just don’t feel like writing about food today. So hang on. Soon.
What do you think a godly woman should look like? Should she be a model of self-denial, at the perfect weight? Or comfortable with wearing the shape that time and life impose on her? ***** Perhaps both. Remember that scales are a recent phenomenon, and until the last century were not put into use as
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A question for you: What is it with women and food? I’ve been having fun conversations lately with people like me who love chocolate, and who in snowy weather want to sit around eating all the time. Oh me. What do you think a godly woman should look like? Should she be a model of
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Confession: Yesterday I walked out of a restaurant without paying. This is not a joke. And nobody else paid either. I just forgot. It was a little coffee shop where I went to get a drink with my mom and my daughter. Because our drinks weren’t all ready at the same time and because they
Hello, my pal! Welcome to Daffy Supper Land, where we eat with a shovel in one hand and a baby fork in the other. Have fun eating! –Aarick Zook Confession: When I was a teen, I spake as a teen, I understood as a teen, I thought as a teen: but when I became a
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