A tagine is a Moroccan cooking dish that has a unique cone shaped lid that locks in moisture and flavor.  I have just started using this ceramic dish and have found that meats are much more tender and moist than cooking with traditional pots.  I have cooked several meals with this North African pot and [...]

I have done a fair amount of traveling in my life.  Just this year I have been to El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Belize, The Caymans, The Netherlands, and Germany.  During my travels, I am always impressed to see how households supplement their food and income by producing something for themselves.  It could be said that [...]

Pointing to the Japanese practice of eating raw eggs with little to no consequence, Lisa Katayama questions whether American safety warnings may be exaggerated.  “There’s a 1 in 20,000 chance that an egg might contain salmonella, according to the American Egg Board,” she writes, a risk she wonders whether people ought to be willing to [...]

A hobby farmer tells her tale of breeding Nigerian dwarf goats at CK farm happenings.
Our Nigerian does, Brie and Eliza, have also been in heat, but I consider it an adolescent heat.  They’re still under a year in age and are too small to have babies safely.
One lesson you learn more profoundly raising animals or [...]

and it sounds like she shares our  poultry problem .  But the article is primarily about Suzanne McMinn’s discovery of Nigerian Dwarf Goats and goats in general:
Then one day I received an e-mail from a reader of my blog.  She lived nearby and she had Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats.  Nigerian Dwarfs are miniature milkers that [...]

A warm aura emanated from the perfectly crisp crust. The inside was neither too light nor too dense.  Honed with honey, each thick slice sank into our stomachs like soft, broken earth into a riverbed.
Although it would soon be eroded out of existence, it would be remembered as the best bread Adam had ever [...]