Raising a healthy Jane (or just being a healthy grown-up Jane) comes from good food and proper nutrition. Grab your aprons, I’m on kitchen duty with food to spare and recipes to share! When time allows, here’s where you’ll find one of my how-to-convert-to-an-organic-diet recipes.
Winnie Nielsen says: Mmmmmm, heirloom tomatoes! Sitting here in the Portland Airport for 7a departure home. It has been a wonderful visit out west, and I am still pitching myself that I am officially FSOTY!! I need that credit added to my Passport. When I get home, I am going to get busy embroidering mine for a jacket! I am thinking your new Hoodies would be a great place for one. Can’t wait to get home and dive head first into getting into my role. Whoop!!! Matching Milk Cow Kitchen quilts!! Maybe sweet Rose Etta will give her “hoof” signature somewhere. I used to have the girls horses officially “sign” birthday cards to them . They loved it even if it meant the card was a bit rumpled on one side!
MaryJane says: Winnie is hoofing it home pronto:)
Winnie Nielsen says: Love zucchini anyway you fix it. Down here it seems like it can grow a foot overnight !! Locally , we have Zucchini Festival where they serve all sorts of ways the dependable veggie can be enjoyed. Plus the Queen of the Zucchini Festival reigns over the festivities in her gree sparkled regalia and crown. You gotta love it!!
Nancy Coughlin says: Have a couple in my crisper in the refrigerator and may just try the overnight pickles!!! Thanks for the great recipes.
Oh and the latest photo of the dearest calf of all. Just love that heart!
Kay (Old Cowgirl) Montoya says: What handsome boy. When he was born I saw the white heart on his forehead and thought how unusual that is, and such a large heart too. I wonder if anyone else noticed it? I think all cows have sweet faces but the breed Beaumont is especially sweet. Thanks for making my day.
Chantel Connell says: How can we sumit pictures for picture of the day?
MaryJane says: Hmmm, we take all the photos here at the farm. What did you have in mind?
I don’t know why, but this year I forgot about sun tea until about halfway through the summer. It makes no sense, since the simple joy of sun tea is on my top-10 summer favs list.
The wait for it to chill after it’s done adds to the sweet anticipation. It feels like such a well-earned cold beverage in the heat of it all.
So here’s your friendly reminder to set out your sun tea tomorrow morning. Just in case I’m not the only farmgirl forgetting this particular summer joy. Cheers!
Your sun tea is red , is that hibiscus in it? like in that good ole hippie dippie trippie standby Red Zinger Tea?
I make gallons of iced tea, usually just the regular black tea, but always Red Rose Tea, ( so I can get those free adorable free English Wade figurines in the boxes- been collecting for like 40 + years ) Right now they are the nautical series, I am looking for another seahorse and another conch too. Over the years they have had every kind of animal: jungle, circus, endangered, farm, petshop, etc. And last year it was the calendar series with a figurine standing for each month, the orange cat in a pumpkin in October being my favorite and the rarest. Try this tea as it is so much fun, like christmas every time you open a box. And the way I drink tea it goes fast and yep, time to get another box. I also forgot about sun tea, was just gonna make my iced tea this morning ,so here goes…. Here comes the sun……
Winnie Nielsen says: My fav sum tea is Celestial Seasonings Peach. We can make some sun tea a lot of months in Florida.
So lucky here in So. California. I make Sun Tea all year round. Love putting a couple sprigs of fresh mint in it while it brews.
We invited a few friends out to the farm this past weekend. We had SO much fun showing them around. We enjoyed all the usual attractions, but after eating a large amount of berries (blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries) from Nanny’s berry patches, a good round of creek jumping was a must.
Even Mom joined in on our fun, since she and her brothers did invent the sport.
Pretty fun being a farmgirl (and farmboy, in our friend Parker’s case).
Winnie Nielsen says: Love those smiles of delight!! Sounds like you all had a bunch of fun together.
Kay (Old Cowgirl) Montoya says: When I was little, in Eastern Oregon, we had a creek behind our house. A bit bigger than the one pictured here but we put a couple boards over it and was able to cross it. We also had a lot of fun running across it to get to my friends houses. It seemed at the time that it was a big river but seeing it now I believe it was only about 6 feet across. Of course when you are small lots of things look bigger. At one point I would gather Pollywags, and watched them grow into frogs. Growing up in the “city population about 6,000 people” which included all the ranches and farms around, I was still very much a farm girl. I used to have friends that had ranches so I could enjoy being a cowgirl, riding horses with my friends, learning to barrel race, finding out what real canned dill pickles tasted like, helping the cooks during haying season. At one time helping to birth a colt. I instinctly knew how to gently break a horse. No one taught me I just seemed to know at an early age that you did not jump on them and ride them to the ground.
Now I am 71 years old and can not get up on a horse any more. I miss it a lot but find I have other things to do with my coming years. One is to enjoy every post, magazine, and sister issue of Mary Janes magazine. I have enjoyed them ever since I first picked one up at a store. I even got my Daughter interested in it as well. I am still waiting to move which keeps getting pushed further away. I know it is just going to take time and am doing what I can to get ready. Love and best wishes, Kay (Old Cowgirl)
MaryJane says: What sweet memories! Thank you for sharing and for being you. It’s a treasure to know you. You have much wisdom to offer.
Winnie Nielsen says: Jewels of July and August. Oh, the yummy possibilities!!
Winnie Nielsen says: Mia, the little darlin’ ! Apricots are one of my favorite fruits too.
Karlyne says: Oh, yum, we’ve been eating apricots, too! And apricot is my absolute favorite pie…
Winnie Nielsen says: I love those big brown Jersey eyes!
Karlyne says: Milk Cow Kitchen arrived today. Tell the girls (especially RoseEtta and mom) we are very excited!
Winnie Nielsen says: I love little Prim dolls! How cute she looks all ready with her apron, looks like lacy bloomers, and burlap bows in her hair.
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Oh these western cherries! When I was visiting Kellie, her little sister made me a cherry pie from their friend’s cherry orchard. It was delicious and the sweetest ever gift to receive. We all enjoyed it for lunch together.
Who doesn’t love cherries. just so cheerful.