Every school year I “steal” my girls away for a special meal of their choice. It’s a time when I get to spend one on one time with my girls. One on one time doesn’t happen very often when you have sixteen daughters so we look forward to this time. I either cook or buy…
Recipes
Chilequilas y Huevos Divorciados
I love Mexican food, if you haven’t guess already. I try to avoid the deep fried things most of the time because restaurants use regular vegetable oil or non organic lard. The fat of an animal contains a high concentration of all the hormones, antibiotics and toxins that they are feed and injected with. So…
Sopa de Tortilla Verde (Green Tortilla Soup)
I had planed to share another recipe from the “Little House” books but my sourdough starter disappeared today, so sourdough biscuits did not get made. Oh, the joys of communal living. Hopefully, it didn’t get thrown in the garbage by someone who didn’t know what the smelly stuff was. Instead, today’s recipe is especially for…
Fresh Squeezed Lemonade {Cooking Through Little House}
A glossy white cloth covered the table. On it was a beautiful sugar white cake and tall glasses… “Is your lemonade sweet enough?” Mrs. Olsen asked. So Laura knew that it was lemonade in the glasses. She had never tasted anything like it. (On the Banks of Plum Creek) Welcome to my fourth post of…
Soaked Pancakes {Cooking Through Little House}
Mary and Laura…could smell bacon and coffee and hear pancakes sizzling, and they scrambled out of bed. They washed their hands and faces in the tin washbasin on the wagon-step. Ma combed every snarl out of their hair, while Pa brought fresh water from the creek. Then they sat on the clean grass and ate…