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: Such a fancy head dressing on your girl. The close-up is beautiful!
Lisa A says: Pretty girl! I need to get buff orpingtons again.
Bernard Chepkoria says: Nice pic
Winnie Nielsen says: Back from Oklahoma where it was in the 90s all weekend with a gusty hot prairie wind on top. No wonder they had a dustbowl out there in the 1930s!
Love that iconic photo of the basket of apples. It is Pinterest Perfect. Not to mention good eatin’!!
Cheryl bell says: This picture reminds me of a child hood memory, my daddy planted his first try at strawberry’s .they where on the side of the house. me and my sister would check on them everyday. Those we the strawberry’s we ever tasted.
Cheryl bell says: This picture reminds me of a child hood memory, my daddy planted his first try at strawberry’s .they where on the side of the house. me and my sister would check on them everyday. Those were the best strawberries we ever tasted.
Rebecca Taylor says: Oooh yum! It’s the perfect picture because we are having strawberry shortcake for dessert tonight. 🙂
Nancy Couden says: We just started our strawberries and have few berries that the birds seem to get before us. I keep watching the berries, but the birds must get them just before they are ripe. I go out the next day, and poof! They are gone. Oh well, there is not very many so enjoy birds! They do this to our blueberries and blackberries, too. Because we just started them. Next year–netting!
Winnie Nielsen says: Your Heritage Jersey cows are so pretty as well as great providers of delicious milk!
MaryJane says: That’s my Ester Lily who is now pregnant for the first time. SUCH a sweet cow!
Lisa Von Saunder says: hi MaryJane,
well I can’t post on paperdolls as there is no read more link.
I love your Ester Lily- very pretty cow
Cheryl bell says: She is so pretty and the scene looks so peaceful. she will be a first time mommy cow with a beautiful new calf☺
Janice Slater says: A lovely picture! It makes me feel calm just looking at it. Thanks for posting it!
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Lisa Von Saunder says: Any recipes for squash blossoms?
Winnie Nielsen says: I bet this does make a delicious stir fry sauce. The photo in the back looks like quite a feast of veggies and chicken.
Krista says: Sweet and sour sauce is delicious over chicken, so I bet the plum version would be even tastier. This would also be a good way to get more hidden fruits into my husbands food!
Cindi says: Plum sauce is called for in so many Asian recipes and a major frustration for me. Commercial plum sauces are not gluten free (soy sauce contains wheat). Once again the Farmgirl connection has come to my rescue ~ I just love ya all 🙂
Winnie Nielsen says: Are those apricots? Apricots are one of my very favorite of all the fruits. We don’t see them much here in Florida except when they come from the west coast. But they are often picked early and are sour and expensive.
Teddie Wright says: Beautiful!! Thank ypu
Irene says: Moms,Dads,kids, Mom&Dad inlaw who the people you could ever meet and myself loved fresh peaches even shopping for these succulent fruited was a nice ritual every year. My husband grew up behind a steel mill where he is employed at. We live in the country has the finest agriculture that you would find any where. These last days of summer are packed with shopping local farmers road side stands stands and taking there labors to the fairs not more than 15 minutes from our homes;Ohio is a grand place to live for one appetite. I only wish that the lunch programs would partner with the real food experts. I believe this year we had more rain than I can recall every person will be putting every peach,tomatoes,corn in the freezer or canning this month. When our kids were growing up we were 4Hers they did not even had time for a swim. Our county doesn’t let kids go back to school till the fair is over and I am proud of all the children; they have something they can say they accomplished every year.🍑🍑🍎🌽🍅🍓🍉🍇🍆🍀
Winnie Nielsen says: These GF graham crackers look fabulous! The other day we had an ice cream sandwich from a food truck and I was thinking they should offer a GF option because their homemade ice creams were to die for. I had their Key Lime flavor and with the regular graham cookie, they were top dog delicious!
Oh thank you so much Mary Jane for this receipts. I miss graham crackers so much. Now I can have S’mores with Farmgirl Sharon D. Homemade marshmallows. Yum!
Krista says: Ooo how delicious! Making ice cream sandwiches with the graham crackers sounds perfect! I think I would freeze for later and have soft graham cracker ice cream sandwiches. I also love eating graham crackers with icing as another treat.
Darlene Ricotta says: Those look like great graham crackers, I am going to share this with my gluten free friends.
Yummy!
Darlene
Chrissy says: Beautiful! It’s making my mouth pucker!
Winnie Nielsen says: Oh WOW, those cherries look positively picture perfect. I bet they make the best pies and jam ever!
MaryJane says: Those that are on the trees still are actually sweet enough to eat by the handful.
absolutely picture perfect like those old fashioned maraschino cherries ( that had red dye in them) . You are so lucky to have sweet cherries, we only have the sour cooking kind.
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I love this photo!
Love the picture.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas
Have you all gone to the barn on Christmas Eve at midnight to see if these cutie pies talk?
They do in fact, talk. All the time. It’s just that we have trouble with the words they use:) Guess what I started doing last night, Winnie? I’m taking citrus peels from the most wondrous health-giving citrus on Earth and I’m scraping the pith off and turning them into candied rind for Christmas. The rinds themselves are so good, those silly things kept popping themselves into my mouth. I am in heaven. Chocolate and citrus. Doesn’t get much better than that. And. And, AND, I’m going to use ChillOver marmalade as filling in some Aebleskivers for Christmas day.
Mmmm…can you share that recipe? Can it be as simple as dipping the rind into melted chocolate? And the calf is oh-so sweet…look at those lovely eyes and long eyelashes.
No, you have to sugar it first by simmering the rinds in sugar (or honey) water for an hour or so and then you let it drip and dry for a couple of days. We published a recipe once–I’ll try to find it for you!
Who says cows aren’t beautiful? A Merry Christmas and Happy and Blessed New Year to you and your family, MaryJane!
Which adorable calf is this cutie? too sweet for words!
This is Rosetta when she was younger.
Merry Christmas to all of you. Your cutie pie certainly looks decked out in the Santa hat. Love it!
So cute!
Love that cow face!