Homemade saltines

The girls and I not long ago finish a batch of saltine crackers they are amazing!!!

I will post the recipe soon!!

Dinner tonight

Dinner tonight was a wonderful batch of sherperd pie and homemade buttermilk biscuits. I have to say it was a huge hit.

Good Wednesday all

I pray that each of y'all had a safe night and that your homes did not have any damage. For us we have got a lot of rain but by the grace of god no damage.

Today I will be making cookies, goats cheese and who knows what else. The laundry is washed and hung on the drying rack. The floors are clean the house in is order.

Well time to get busy have a blessed safe day all.

http://www.thefrugalgirl.com/2012/11/how-to-make-homemade-marshmallows/

ok i so want to try this also. homemade marshmallows oh that sounds so good..

http://busy-mommy.com/2012/01/homemade-valentines-day-mints.html

i cant wait to try these.

Busy Monday

Good afternoon all! I pray that each of you have had a blessed day!

For us the day has been a busy one. Barn chores to do first thing. Then inside to eat homemade buttermilk pancakes and maple syrup. Then off to work my oldest son goes and drops the girls off at their job at a barn. Once they texted Liz and myself went and picked them up and off to post office to send a letter. Back home to finish the days work. The house is in order floors cleaned, bathroom taken care of, windows on inside clean, and all laundry done and hanging!!!

On the menu tonight is bean burgers served on homemade sour dough bread, Mac and cheese. I made a pound cake with peppermint icing for dessert.

Hanging In the kitchen is a nice pound of yogurt cheese!! I love to see these simple things just laying around my house.

For my family we are trying to lower if not wipe out the use of convince foods. We have tried to make a return to more natural real food. I have to say I love the fact that my grocery list is getting smaller and smaller. Basic items is all we need. I also love looking into my kitchen and seeing jars of cookies, crackers and things like this for the kids to snack on. Then when I open the frig I don't see packages of Kraft no there is containers of homemade cheese from our goats!!! We know what we are eating!!! Makes a mom feel good!!!

Well enough of that I had better go for now. Have a blessed afternoon all!!!

The week ahead

What is on your plans for the week ahead? What are your canning and baking plans?

For our home this week will start out with cleaning the book closet up to make a sewing area for me and the girls. There is a quilt to work on and strips to cut and sew to make a new rug. For baking there is Amish bread to make, cookies to bake, sour dough bread that will need my work. And then we have butter to make. Yogurt cheese to work up and goat milk cheese to make.

For the little farm there is goats to tend to and to milk. Chickens to feed. A duck to care for who doesn't seem to know he is a duck. Then the three pigs that think they own the property.

I will post a blog tomorrow on our menu plans for the week along with the baking plans.

Well have a blessed night All!!

Sour dough bread

Just pulled the sour dough bread out of the oven! Have to say it sure smells good!!

Blessings on Sunday

Well our day started as any other day there is breakfast to cook as barn chores are being done. Then it is off to the work of the day.

Breakfast was friendship toast and grits with cheese. Lunch was leftover pizza and oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. And dinner tonight will be black eye peas, corn on cob, meat loaf and fresh bread.

Here are a few pictures of around the little farm and the cookies that we're baked today. Pictures of sour dough bread will be posted later today!! I hope y'all enjoy them all!!

There is pictures of our goats and a few of the pigs sorry no picture of the chickens , duck or the other pigs but will try to post them tomorrow.

Homemade pizza

I have to say this beats and fast food!! Homemade crust, sauce, and to boot yes homemade cheese on top!!! Oh yeah go mom!!! Can you tell I am proud of myself!!!

Pictures of my home

I am honestly so blessed here is a few pictures of my little home!! It is not fancy buy it's home!!!

Saturday

Good morning all. I pray that each of you are having a blessed morning. The sun is shining and the air has a nice crisp cool feeling without being freezing cold here in north alabama.

There is laundry on the line blowing in the wind and the house is all clean for the morning. All animals have been fed and are content. Yeah i would say this is a good start to the day. The boys are off early today to their fire class. They sure do seem to love this class and i am glad.

The day is going to be slow here as i need to rest some. I have been going full speed lately.

Dinner tonight will be homemade pizza with homemade cheese on top.. oh yeah mom is so proud to be able to make her own dough and sauce and then top it with not store bough nope not store bought at all just homemade from top to bottom. I will post a picture of it when we are finished making the pizza.

I do plan on baking some cookies today and a homemade cheese cake out of homemade graham crackers and again the homemade cream cheese i made the other day..

Well all time to get busy with the days work. Have a blessed morning and i will post pic soon.. love to each..

Friday adventures

Today bills were paid then back home to take care of the work of the day.

Butter to chun, farmers cheese to make, buttermilk bread to bake and dinner to cook!!!

I am so proud of the work I have done today!!!

Here is a pick of the farmers cheese hanging and the butter all finished and in a small bowl I am using as a mold. Bread is now rising and will soon go in oven!!

The days work

Today we got crackers made and goat cheese made. Also have yogurt cheese in the press. I am so happy with the days work!!! Becky made chocolate dip pretzels!! Life is good!!

Wednesday work

Well today has been a busy day. After spending some time in town it was home to get clothes off the line and start working on Amish friendship bread and sour dough bread. Ended up with two sour dough and ten loaves of Amish bread!! I put some in the freezer!! Yeah!!
Tomorrow we will work on saltines, garaham crackers and vanilla wafers. Also make the kids some cola for then to have this weekend.
Then there the normal work on the farm goats to milk, chickens to deal with and pigs to feed. I have to admit I love my life!!!!
For the personal care in the house I will work on making some homemade vasoline and cold cream. I will share recipes and pictures tomorrow. And then the last thing will be powdered laundry soap. If I can get to the store I will finish getting the spices to make some homemade ketchup! But we will have to see if not it will be done on Saturday for sure!!!
Well I pray that you all have a blessed night!!
I leave you all with a picture of my Amish bread!!! Night all!!!

wonderful ideas

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Relish/How-To-Make-Sour-Cream-And-Cream-Cheese-Recipes.aspx

here is a site that has some great recipes for sour cream and cream cheese.. i hope it helps someone... i know it is me!!

Tuesday

I pray that each of you have had a blessed day.

Today we have cooked two loaves of banana bread. Dinner was potato soup and bread. Dessert was Lemon chess pie. Simple meals but oh so good.....

Tomorrow we will work on making Graham crackers and maybe some saltines. Then there is sour dough bread to bake and amish friendship bread to bake.

I will post recipes and pictures for each.

The boys started their firefighter class last night and they seem to honestly love it. Becky got back form her trip and has a head cold.. oh boy..

The days here have been cold but on the bright side the sun has been shining and that has been so nice....

I pray that each of you have a blessed night and a peaceful night...

Monday

Well today I was able to get bread baked and English muffins made. Was able to do this even in the midst of hurting like crazy. I took a nice fall off my door steps today while holding into my pit bull mix dog. Let's just say I didnt bounce...... I am now a nice color of black and blue on my right side.

Thur crazy day!!

Well today we have had ice now snow and and and!! Can anyone say lord how in the world does it go from 70 to rain to this in a week!!!
Just finished two loaves of buttermilk bread smells good! I have a turkey in the oven will make a good meal and some great sandwiches!!!

Sour dough

Just pulled out of oven it smells so good!!!

Sour dough bread recipe and starter

I thought i would share my recipe for sour dough. We love this recipe and it smells so good..
Sour dough starter
In a large jar put
1 cup warm water
1 cup of all purpose flour
1 tbsp yeast
1 tsp sugar
stir until well mixed cover with loose towel. allow to rest for three days stir each day once. i just allow mine to sit on the cabinet to do its resting..

sour dough bread
1 cup sour dough starter
1 1/2 cup warm water
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil or butter melted
3 cups wheat flour
3 cups white all purpose flour
i mix this as i would any other bread dough. once mixed allow to rest til double in size a hour or so.. place on floured area and knead divide in half and roll into loaf place in a greased bread pan cover with towel and allow to rest again about a hour or so to rise bake at 350 for 40 minutes... cool and enjoy... if you can i know for us the smell just wont allow us to wait... :)

Wednesday

Good afternoon all. I pray that everyone is dry, warm and safe.

Around here it has been raining and raining some more... I have to admit i am over the rain i so need some sun... But god knows what he is doing and i have to trust him.

Todays plans were change due to the weather. Our dear friends leighann, mark and their family was to come for a visit but well that will have to wait for another day. I have to admit i so miss my friends.

The house has been cleaned and laundry washed. Now i am waiting for my sour dough bread to rise and get it baked up. It smells so good.. I will post pics soon when it comes out of the oven.

Friday becky leaves for her trip to tenn with the youth group at church. James and steven start their fire fighters class tomorrow night. It seems like the house is moving moving moving...

well time to work on the next project of the day.. i pray each of you have a blessed day

Fresh baked bread

Two loaves of bread baked and cooling. Dinner cooking of peas and carrots, mashed potatoes, hamburger gravy along with homemade wheat bread. Cookies for dessert. Yeah it has been a good productive day.

Kitchen rug done

Well got it finished and I think it looks nice under the sink! Not bad for a free rug made out of tee shirts my kids would have thrown away!!

New rug I'm making

Working on a new rug!!

sunday morning blessings

Good sunday morning all. I pray that your morning has been a blessed one.

So far our day has been a busy one. The boys got the shed moved onto our property yesturday and today they have been removing bad wood and replaceing it with good. they are about finished with that in the middle of rain storms. Still to do is make a new door for the shed and then to get all of jackies stock of rats, ferret and birds moved into the new home.

As far as inside the homefront today i have been working on Biscuits for breakfast nothing like them!! lunch will be simple hotdogs chips and some mac and cheese. Dinner again simple today due to all the work going on here. We will have rice, peas and carrots, bread, and some kind of meat. The house has been swept and mop and the bathroom cleaned. Laundry is washed and hung on drying rack and on  hangers to dry. Scraps were gathered and taken out to the pigs and chickens. They are sure happy!!!

That is what is happening here on our little homestead. I will try to post pictures of before and after pictures of the shed sometime tomorrow.  Have a blessed day all!!

Just took out of oven

Saturday events

Good afternoon all. I pray that this post finds each of you doing well.

Today has been a day full of events. Steven is at his fire fighter drivers class his test will be tomorrow after church. Please pray that he passes the class so that he can start driving the trucks for our vol fire dept. James and  his friends are working on getting a small shed here in one piece so that we can move jackies rats and other critters inside so that she can have her own place for her rat buisness. The girls are here with mom working around the house.

As far as mom well i  have had to run into town to pay a bill. Pick up a picture for a neighbor. Then off to drop james off to meet with the boys. Then back home to fix lunch and start my bread. Thank the lord now is in the pans rising four loaves of half wheat white bread.  Dinner tonight will be deer meat hamburgers on homemade bread. Breakfast this morning was wonderful muffins. lunch was a bowl of soup with a leftover muffin.

This coming week we will be blessed with  having friends come over to visit. I am so looking forward to that. Then there is a doctor apt for me. I just love having test and blood work done... just so much fun.... not... lol....

I have been working on getting my bread baking down to every other day so that we have fresh bread daily. So far so good..

Well time to get back busy i will update with pictures of the shed and how she gets it all fixed up if they are able to get it here.. Oh and yes my daughter raises rats for pets. She loves her small business and the critters make great pets.

Have a blessed day all

Feeling so blessed!! God provides so much for his children!! this is a shopping trip from today for less than 26.00 god blessed us with some great sales. i normally dont buy boxed muffin mixes or bread mixes but for 50cents each i couldnt pass them by. thank you god for your abundent care of us!!!

Pictures coming!!!!

Good night all

Well the day has came to a close. The boys are at the fire station for their weekly meeting. The girls are watching DVD with a friend and mom is wiped out and ready for bed.

Tomorrow will be a busy day as there is bills to pay, chores here to do. Sewing to work on. I am praying I will get to work on my tee shirt rug.

I was able to bake up four loaves of bread today so won't have to do any until Saturday. But I do need to make some English muffins. God willing I will be working on some yogurt tomorrow afternoon also.

So far that is what our day will look like?? But on a good note most of it will be spent at home!!!! Praise god!!

Good afternoon all! I pray that each of you  have had a blessed Christmas and the new year has been a huge blessing to you all!!
 
It has been a while since I have wrote and i am sorry for that! Life has had a way of really passing me by and my time seems to be more and more taken up.

There has been much work going on here at the little homestead, we have done as much canning this past year as possible. Well over 1200 jars of food has been put up this year. Not as much as i would like but hey it is a start right. We have been blessed with one milking goat and also two other goats that will in time be able to be milked. We have expanded with a small billy goat but he is more a pet than a goat. The farm is also blessed with chickens, duck and three mini pigs that will also be raised to use for breeders. And now we are waiting to expand our farm with three wonderful breeder rabbits.

The coming months will be working on expanding our garden area for more food, expanding the other garden area for more herbs for medical use and kitchen use. Working on boxing in our porch to make a area  for the kids to have there tv and games. And we will be working on getting more animals to expand the farm.

The children are doing good. Elizabeth just got back from ohio where she spent time with some dear friends of our. She had a blassed. Jackie and Becky are still working at the barn and taking care of animals. Steven and james are still working at the store and they are now part of the volinteer fire dept. They love it and i am thrilled at the fact that they are giving back to our local area. they will seen start their training to drive the trucks then they will have training for medical calls. I am so proud of each one of my children.

Christmas for us was a simple one. We made most of our christmas gifts and tried to make it a simple one and i have to admit it loved the fact that it was so simple.

As far as mom goes well i am just doing what i feel god is leading me to do. Stay home as much as possible and take care of my home and family. I just got over the flu and well to say the least i dont want that again. But other than that god is in control of everything.

That gives you a little bit about the going on around here. I will do my best to update pictures and add more about the farm and the daily events of our little place.

Remember in all things great and small god is in control!!! Have a blessed day all<3 font="font">