June 2009

Cajeta Apple Peanut Butter Balls

by admin on June 20, 2009

Always looking for something to satisfy my sweet tooth, this snack does just the trick. It has the sweetness from the caramel but is nicely balanced by the peanut butter. Very quick and easy to make and kids really like them. Ingredients 1/3 cup goat milk caramel (cajeta) 3/4 cup apple finely diced (preferably granny [...]

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Horseradish and Maple Chèvre

by admin on June 20, 2009

One day at the farmers market, while taking a break from selling our farm’s products, I wandered into a woman’s booth where she was concocting a new food creation. She had taken maple cream (a thick cooked down version of maple syrup) and freshly ground horseradish and mixed them together. The combination was surprisingly wonderful. [...]

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Winter Squash and Cajeta

by admin on June 20, 2009

I had been getting bored with the mountains of butternut squash overflowing our spare bedroom. The taste of squash was no longer a seasonal novelty but rather a bland stringy let down. Alas, I roasted yet another squash and looked in the fridge to see what I could use to spice things up. The caramel [...]

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Pesto Mashed Potatoes with Goat Cheese

by admin on June 20, 2009

Come March, we have just about finished our supply of cider from the fall and are still working on the stacks of pesto tubs in the freezer, the baskets of potatoes in the root cellar, the whole corn waiting to be ground, and the fresh flow of all goat milk products that are filling up [...]

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Cornmeal Crust and Goat Cheese Flatbread

by admin on June 20, 2009

This is one of my all time favorite recipes! We grow Calais Flint corn every summer and I’m always looking for creative ways to use cornmeal besides corn bread. This is an excellent winter meal from us because we use frozen pesto from the summer, local flour, our own cornmeal, sundried tomatoes that we dehydrated [...]

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Ingredients 1 lb of spiral or elbow pasta 5 tbsp unsalted butter 6 tbsp flour 2 tsp dry mustard 5 cups goat milk (can substitute with cow milk) 8 ounces cheddar cheese 8 ounces sundried tomato basil chevre Cook pasta until just tender. Drain. In a pan melt butter over medium heat until it foams. [...]

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TGIF

by admin on June 14, 2009

TGIF Yesterday, Friday, someone said to me “Thank goodness it’s Friday”. And then he did a doubletake and said “Whoops, that really doesn’t apply to you does it?” And he was right. In the farming world, Friday isn’t really the end of a work week. There isn’t actually an end to the work week. It’s [...]

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Babies!

by admin on June 7, 2009

Well, I’ve got the luxurious deal today — I got to sleep in! My sister, back from her other life in Mexico, is here to rescue us. That translates to her taking over one early morning of hanging cheese. We have been looking forward to June for a while. My sister and cousin both just [...]

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