Farmwife’s “Crab” Cakes (aka Poor Man’s Crab Cakes)

So, I found myself cooking for a pescatarian today. Most of our easy lunch options include meat-based protein, which meant I needed to put forth a bit more effort than usual. And yet, lunch was ready in less than 30 minutes, felt gourmet, and was made entirely from ingredients I already had in my pantry!...

Farmwife Fire Cider!

Tonight, I set up four quarts of fire cider to mature / infuse for a month. Fire cider is a miraculous tonic / tincture that has been a folk medicine standard for hundreds of years. In the early 1980s, Rosemary Gladstar provided her students at the California School of Herbal Studies with a recipe for...

Womancraft: On Making Bread, and “Woo” Thoughts

This morning, as I took the sourdough dark rye dough out of the refrigerator to continue its long, slow rise after its nighttime slumber, I saw it in a different way. It is art, yes. An "artisan loaf" with fennel, anise seed, caraway, molasses and orange zest... It is nourishment, certainly. My Husband and daughters...

BBQ on a Budget

So yesterday, I found out through a friend that my beloved Husband had planned a barbecue for tonight. For around twenty people. At 5 PM. Not a potluck, us feeding them. After asking how he expected us to afford such a thing with no planning or notice (to which he responded, I just said "hot...

Dark Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread with Walnuts

After posting a picture of this to Instagram, I had some requests for the recipe, and so (no less than a week later), here it finally is. The girls absolutely LOVE banana bread, and they love to help smashing the bananas for it, so it was a win-win for them. While I'm not typically a...

Marinara Sauce (for canning)

Earlier this month, I took my first trip to Charlie's U-Pik in Wiggins, MS with friends. We spent the morning in the heat and humidity wading through mud in our rainboots picking farm fresh produce. The tomatoes, unfortunately, weren't ripe yet. So as I checked out, I grabbed a 25 lb. box of Roma tomatoes...

Paleo Fig Bars (no dairy, no grains, sugar-free)

So the Husband is on my $hit list. This morning, when I was feeding the girls, I walked over to the sink and saw my mini springform pan--empty--sitting, waiting to be washed. Last night, when I went to bed, it was in the fridge. Full of a perfect, beautiful, individual fig bar intended for a...

Mixed Pepper Jelly

  In the midst of my food preservation / preparation flurry, I've made some large batches of mini (quarter-pint) jars of certain things for our yearly holiday gifts. Come wintertime, all I'll have to do is make pretty labels, and give them to the Man to hand out Yay for reducing holiday stress! Following is...

Non-Traditional Green Chimichurri Sauce

  So after I turned 50 lbs. of tomatoes and half a bushel of peppers into salsa for canning, I found myself with an extra 1 1/2 cups of finely chopped cilantro. What to do? Make chimichurri of course. It must be noted, of course, that traditional chimichurri from Argentina and Uruguay doesn't actually use...

It’s been a long day…

So I haven't really written since I left for my business trip last Thursday. For good reason. From the moment I walked out the door at 5:30 AM on Thursday until the moment I got home at 11:30 PM on Sunday, I was running. 7 AM until 3 AM the next morning each day. And...