Recipe: Warm, crisp and a little melty salad croutons

by Hannah on May 15, 2012

Lily found this recipe on Smitten Kitchen and we all agreed it was too good not to pass on. Check out this recipe for Warm, crisp and a little melty salad croutons.  Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

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An Old Fashioned Greenhouse Raisin’

May 14, 2012

Hey all you Fat Toad Farm blog readers! I’m Lily Baker, an intern here at the farm.  I’ve been here for about three months, and for the rest of my internship, about three more months, I’ll be blogging here every so often.  Nice to meet you all, and hope you enjoy! ________________________________________________________________ So, you know [...]

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The Creep

May 9, 2012

Now that the kids are bigger, they are old enough to eat a little grain.  The difficulty of providing grain to kids is, of course, that the adults would be perfectly happy to hog every last nugget.  We’ve built a  clever little system to admit the little ones and prevent the adults from entering the [...]

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Don’t forget your mum a week from today!

May 6, 2012

Precisely a week from today (Sunday, May 13, 2012) all of us should have paid/be paying/planning to pay homage to your dear mothers. Those lovely, brave ladies who brought us into the world, raised us up right, and then booted us (lovingly) out of the nest when it was time to buzz off. If you’re looking for [...]

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Pastel Imposible: Possibly the biggest thing since sugar and milk met a hot pan.

May 1, 2012

If the goats would just let me have enough free time to make this authentic Argentinian recipe for Pastel Imposible from Goodies for Gifts, I might die happy. Goodies for Gifts is one of our favorite sources for artisanal gourmet goodies with real people and real stories.

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Delicious Flavors for Wedding Favors

April 29, 2012

Wooo!  Wedding season is almost upon us!  I know this because the first of the five weddings on my summer calendar (that’s right, FIVE)  is coming up the week after next.  Yikes!   Can’t wait to show off my pasty white winter legs on the dance floor! Anyhoo, Fat Toad Farm has some fabulously adorable [...]

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A Spring Walk in the Woods Yields Buried Treasure

April 26, 2012

God bless fiddleheads.  My dad and I picked these yesterday (in a spot that will remain undisclosed), washed them, boiled them and added them to our dinner salad.  Hmmmmmmm, soooooo goooooooooood.                 Here are the rules of fiddleheading according to Farmer Steve (pictured below a’hunting with Molly): 1. [...]

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Representing the Southern States

April 25, 2012

Are Proud Mama Bama (made famous this spring by giving birth to quadruplets, and made infamous by doing it in the middle of the night) and her baby girl Georgia. Georgia was the last of the four babies to arrive and by far the biggest, which is odd, usually multiple babies get smaller in succession. [...]

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A Pea Tree Orchard

April 20, 2012

Check out our crazy new sweet pea orchard!   This is the brainchild of our brilliant and crafty neighbor John of Spruce Lane Farm.  The idea is basically to trellis our sweet pea plants, but by using cut brush instead of standard trellis materials. The peas, planted along either side of the brush rows, will [...]

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Lemon Chess Pie with Fat Toad Farm’s Very Own Crème Fraiche

April 17, 2012

After chores, caramel, chores, gardening, caramel, cheese-making, and chores yesterday, our fabulous and shockingly industrious interns – Lily, Elisa & Melissa – still had the time and energy to make Lemon Chess Pie last night with a ridiculous Fat Toad Farm original crème fraiche.   We all ate a slice (or two in some cases) [...]

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