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Cupcake Decoration Class March 21
CUPCAKES!!! Do you love CUPCAKES? Who doesn’t love CUPCAKES? Please join us to learn basics of the fun and rewarding art of creative and delicious decoration. Saturday, March 21, 2015 from 10 am to noon Lauren Baber and Momo Sipe…
Split Pea Soup – Winter’s Comfort Food
My Split Pea Soup was inspired by Andersen’s Restaurant, Solvang, California, c. 1952 When I was a little girl in the early 1950s it took almost 18 hours to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco on Highway 101. My…
My first book! The Gen-Xers, Millennials & Hipster Guide: . . . . . Sharing a Kitchen with Housemates
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Our Fabulous Homemade Chicken Plucker
Next weekend is hen culling day; we have some older spent hens and some hens who don’t lay enough to justify dealing with their aggressive barnyard attitude. So on Sunday the flock will go from 29 to 15. This time…
4th of July Homemade Hot Dog Buns
I really like a good hot dog! Way back when I lived in Los Angeles I had all the routes to Pinks Hot Dogs on La Brea Boulevard memorized. My favorite was a kosher dog loaded with chili, sauerkraut,…
Butchering chickens at home using a steel cone
Today Kip and I butchered the first ten of this season’s 120 chickens. At 4 weeks and 4 days these Harvest Whites from S & G Hatchery in Alabama have been fast gainers – the dressed birds weigh on average…