Firesign Farm

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Tart Cherry Cake

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This is an old (1950's?) recipe from one of Mom's friends. The cake is heavy and dense, almost like a fruitcake. The original recipe...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

My Thanksgiving Timetable

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My sister asked about this post, and when I couldn't find it I realized I'd written it for the Co-op blog I contributed to for five ...
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Steamed Corn Pudding

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I belong to a Facebook Group, called Dinner Tonight. Our sole purpose is posting pictures of food. Tonight's dinner included steamed cor...
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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Confetti Bean Soup

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My favorite market has a bulk foods section. Buying my dry beans and grains there saves me money, especially when compared to buying beans b...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Picture of Dorian Orange

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A Halloween homage to Oscar Wilde   "How sad it is!" murmured Dorian, with his eyes still fixed upon his own p...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

A Chipotle is Just a Smoke-Dried Jalapeño

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A chipotle (chi-POAT-lay) is a smoke-dried chile pepper. Many chiles can be turned into chipotles, with jalapeño the most recognizable here ...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Saving Lettuce Seed

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It was a breezy afternoon - just right for gathering lettuce seeds. Lettuce seeded in the Spring was harvested first as thinnings, then oute...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Birdseed Bag Sit-Upon

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My crocus and earliest daffodils are up and blooming. Fall-planted garlic and shallots are up and growing in the garden, and just received a...
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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Crocheted Vintage Diamond Potholders

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I like to have something to keep my hands busy in the evenings, especially in the winter. We heat with a woodstove in the living room, which...
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Friday, March 8, 2013

Ordering Onions

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Even though it's been snowing (lightly, I admit, and really welcome - pretty much all of our natural annual precipitation is from snow) ...
Monday, January 14, 2013

Converting Frames for Seasonal Display

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This past fall, we took a road trip to see my mom - crossing Nevada, Utah, and half of Colorado. On the way there, we toured Arches National...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Picnic Cake

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With one of our biggest summer holidays coming up, I thought I'd post a recipe for a great picnic cake. It's one of my mom's rec...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Last Zucchini

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I was doing some cellar maintenance earlier today. I noticed some mold on the stem end of the last zucchini - left to grow huge last summer,...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

It's A Snow Day

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It should be time to start thinking about getting outside, getting my hands in the dirt once again. The first daffodils are blooming, as is...
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After I read the Little House on the Prairie books, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be a pioneer - living off the land, in a cozy little home where my husband and I made everything in it. That dream never died. I did what I could, when I could. And then I met Aries – a fellow pioneer spirit. He started with a tiny house (all the plumbing on one wall of the kitchen – from the sink you’d walk through the shower stall to get to the toilet). He built a garage and added on a bedroom and bathroom. After we were married, we did all the work to turn it into a cozy home – wallpapering, sewing, building furniture, everything from laying floor tiles to texturing the ceiling. This isn't really a farm - it’s an urban homestead, on a little over an acre (half of that still just sand and sagebrush). But over the years we’ve raised horses, a goat, a pig, rabbits, ducks, geese, bees, chickens and guinea fowl (only the latter two here now). I dug up the horse corral with a pitchfork to put in a garden; we used our wedding present money to buy fruit trees. Through canning, dehydrating and cellaring, I rarely buy produce from the store. I'd say my childhood dream came true.
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