Saturday in the Kitchen

From what I heard, the morning kicked off with a pancake breakfast, which I wasn't able to attend and therefore document (sadness). However, rumor has it that it was fun and delicious.

Home culturing and fermenting was the name of the game this week. There's currently some ginger beer in the making that's highly anticipated. If all goes well, there'll be some soy-yogurt later in the week as well. I'm currently trying to make some injera (an Ethiopian bread) from scratch, which is a several-day long process that involves letting teff flour sour in water. Here's Case doing most of the teff-grinding work for me:



It turns out that teff is a total pain to grind up in a mortar and pestle. A grain mill is next on my farm house wish-list.

History in the Making

There's a lot of good times that happen out here on the Farm, so I thought it would be nice if we could chronicle our adventures in some way that could be easily shared -- thus, a blog is born. I hope this ends up being a collaborative project, where members (and friends) of the house can post Farm House-related photos, stories, and news for the enjoyment and tabs-keeping of all. Nothing cures a cold Minnesota winter like warm fuzzy memories, right?

For starters, my impression of a dinosaur eating dinosaur kale: