There is one good thing about a gross name, like colostrum, which invokes a creep alert or gag factor to most, even my bovine lovin’ friends. Beestings is another name for it, who knows why. It’s one of the reasons we eat “cat food” to gross out the uninitiated liver haters, but I think that … Continue reading
Sweet and Hot. Begin anything and everything with garlic. Salsa, Pesto, Aoli, the possibilities beginning with garlic are endless, and besides that it is easy to grow. When I see recipes that say “one or two cloves of garlic” I laugh. Even if you hated garlic, you should eat it because of all the health … Continue reading
Of all the riches surrounding the raw milk life, colostrum is icing on the cake. Our lovely dairy cow of last year, Gert, who died of milk fever, gave gallons of the thickest, neon yellow colostrum, but it was too strong to drink straight. This year when Annabelle calved I was determined to drink it … Continue reading
A case of ripe apricots can bring the heat of summer into a cold winter day and towards the end of the season you can get bargains on ripe fruit that the grower needs to move as soon as possible. First you wash and easily squeeze the pit out of the apricot into a large … Continue reading
