The Jar Lunch: It’s like a bag lunch or a bento lunch, but the next big thing is lunch packed in a good ol’ mason jar. I have to microwave my lunch at work, so metal containers won’t work and heating...
As certainly as the sun rises, baby chicks grow out of their fluff in an instant. It seems like every time I turn around, they are sprouting new feathers. These photos are from their Day 11 photo sho...
How is it that project task lists multiply? We started with a two-step plan when our oven stopped working. Step one: get a gas line installed Step two: buy a new gas range And then we decided that be...
We have been working hard on our kitchen makeover, and got a little behind on the Salmon Faverolles chick photos. Hopefully you’ve been checking in on them on the Brooder Cam. They have just st...
If you managed to find the time to read yesterday’s epic post about our hatch, I mentioned at the end that we would be announcing the names of our new chicks. I also gave some hints: Like our o...
A number of people checked-in at different stages during the process of our Salmon Faverolles eggs hatching over the weekend. Thanks for watching! This experience turned out to be more incredible and...
Update: The chicks moved out of the incubator to the brooder and you can watch them here. Your regularly scheduled Jar Lunch is being pre-empted for live streaming of our hatching eggs! We woke up th...
Filed under: chickens Tagged: animals, backyard, chickens, chihuhua, dandelions, lavender orpingtons, pets, photography, urban farm
Yesterday our Brinsea Mini Advance incubator told us there are 3 days left and stopped turning the eggs. Yes, our incubator turns the eggs for us and counts down the 21 days during incubation. Our re...
We are smoothie junkies around here, so I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner that we could make mango lassis at home. It also didn’t occur to me that they are healthier tha...
It’s about time for an update on our flock integration! We have taken to calling our segregated flock “The Bigs” and “The Littles,” and it just stuck. While they aren...
Our oven died recently at a very inconvenient moment. We decided to seize the opportunity to convert to a gas range. Then we decided that we should re-do our kitchen floor before the new stove is ins...
If you grow rhubarb, this is a familiar, exciting sight this time of year. Last year, I put in a few new rhubarb plants. They were rather inexpensive and I thought I could fill in ye olde rhubarb pat...
I’ve mentioned the trouble we had acquiring chicks this year, so we cast a wide net for our options. We bought the lavender pullets, but we needed a couple more hens. Specifically we wanted Sal...
Today’s Jar Lunch will be up this afternoon, but meanwhile I have an important announcement: We have so much to tell you about this next week! If your question is, “Does this officially m...
There has been some serious recipe testing and tweaking happening this week, and then THE OVEN BROKE. We’re talking complete short circuit. Somehow I am going to get a gas range out of this, bu...
Poor little Katniss and Primrose. They’re beautiful, certainly, but sometimes that’s not enough. They seem to be inadequate at being chickens. They aren’t comfortable with basic chi...
We are back from Disneyland, and have the blisters to prove it. With one adult and a teenager plus a little determination, it turns out you can go on a lot of rides. Whoa. And I am happy to report th...
The theme of this every week. Filed under: family Tagged: color, life, photography
I will let you in on a little secret: everything we make isn’t food blog worthy. Okay, you probably already knew that. It can be hard to tell, since there are not a lot of failure photos. For e...
Thanks to everyone who entered our book giveaway! We consulted random.org to select the winner of a pre-order for the upcoming Food in Jars book coming out in May. The winner is comment number 90: th...
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