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Showing posts with label cat photos 2013. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cat photos 2013. Show all posts
Thursday, November 28
Thursday Dose of Cute: Happy Thanksgiving!
Wishing you beauty, balance, and grace this holiday season.
Monday, October 14
Wednesday, October 9
Sunday, September 15
Weekend Dose of Cute: Hard at Work
Flattening the baby kale. . .
And staying inside the lines.
More Jasper? Here.
More Mr. Midnight? Here.
© FarmgirlFare.com, where there's lots going on in the garden—and it's good to be a cat.
Friday, September 6
Friday Dose of Farm Dog Cute
Have some good clean fun this weekend.
More Bear? Here.
More Topaz? Here.
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Friday, August 23
Friday, August 16
Friday Dose of Jasper Cute
Have a relaxing weekend.
What a pleasant week. We've been working outside as much as possible, inspired and invigorated by this unseasonably cool weather. Fifty degree mornings in August? Unheard of. And wonderful.
This respite from the energy sapping heat and humidity has the wildlife out and about too. More below. . .
Thursday, July 4
Thursday Dose of All-American Cute
Happy Fourth of July!
Wishing you a wonderful day surrounded by good food and those you love.
More Jasper? Here.
More farm cats? Here.
More about growing those gorgeous Dragon Langerie beans? Here.
P.S. The wild turkeys are out strolling around the hayfield today, celebrating the fact that it isn't that other American holiday.
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Wednesday, June 19
Wednesday, June 5
Monday, June 3
Wednesday, May 29
Saturday, May 25
Tail End of the Week: Get Your Friday Farm Fix #27
Welcome to the Friday Farm Fix, a sporadic series where I share a random sampling of what's been happening around the farm during the past week (usually on Friday). Just joining us? You'll find all the previous Friday Farm Fix posts here and here.
Daisy, our seven-year-old Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dog, leads the flock down the driveway. (Marta was napping.)
The only thing about starting back up with the Friday Farm Fix is that it's making me realize just how fast the time flies by. It's already Friday again Saturday again?
Here's what's been happening around the farm this week. . .
The highlight was seen from the upstairs bedroom window: a mother doe nursing her itty bitty spotted fawn about 75 feet out in the hayfield. So sweet. You can just make out the baby in the photo below.
The humidity jumped up to 87% in the house and had us turning on the upstairs a/c and wondering how we were going to survive the next four months drenched in sweat, but thankfully we've been given a brief reprieve, with a few beautiful breezy days and sweet cool nights. Temporary bliss. We're gearing up to hopefully start cutting some hay next week if the weather cooperates; it can heat back up all it wants to then.
I spent as much time as I could in the kitchen garden, planting, plotting, mulching, watering, clearing out a few more raised beds, and picking lots of bolting Swiss chard (cold tolerant, heat tolerant, easy to grow!) for the chickens. I've also been marveling at how much farther ahead things were a year ago this week. Look at all that beautiful basil! (The Friday Farm Fixes from this time last year are here and here.)
We signed on for a month of rabbit sitting. So far so good.
We fed about 5,000 ravenous mosquitoes. I think this may be the worst they've ever been, but at least their appearance means we've had a more 'normal' (and much needed) wet spring.
I made yet another version of a yellow cake with easy lemon curd that I've been sporadically working on for the past couple of years. Joe loved it, but I don't think it's quite there yet. At this point I've decided it would probably be easier to simply bake a plain yellow cake and pour the lemon filling over each slice.
23 more photos and the rest of the weekly recap below (hover over each image for a description). . .
Tuesday, May 14
Wednesday, April 17
British Invasion: Homemade Cornish Pasties & Favorite English Cookery Books
The dangers of outdoor food photo shoots (Cornish pasty recipe here).
I'm not sure why, but for some reason my recipe for Jamie Oliver's Cornish Pasties with beef, onion, potatoes, and carrots that I shared with you last fall has been one of the most popular posts on Farmgirl Fare for at least the past six weeks. (You'll find the top ten posts of each week listed over in the left sidebar.) Maybe it's pasty season.
What I do know is that these classic British meat pies taste delicious and freeze beautifully. I made a double batch during the tail end (ha) of lambing season this year, and hopefully next year I'll remember to make some at the beginning of lambing season because they're the perfect thing to have on hand for quick and easy dinners or hot and hearty (and portable!) lunches.
I defrosted the frozen pasties at room temperature and then reheated them in my beloved little Oster convection toaster oven (which I often use several times a day), but you could probably go straight from freezer to oven. If you're in a hurry or at work, you can gently heat them in the microwave. They taste especially wonderful when served with brown mustard and cold beer.
Everybody loves these traditional Cornish pasties, including Mr. Midnight.
This pasty recipe is adapted from Jamie Oliver's Great Britain: 130 of My Favorite British Recipes, from Comfort Food to New Classics, which is a neat cookbook. I bookmarked several other recipes to try while spending a couple of hours leisurely reading through it.
I have a huge cookbook collection but rarely use most of them. So in keeping with my word for the year—SIMPLIFY—I've been slowly sorting through my cookbooks, most of which still haven't made the move from The Shack to the new house, and donating a bunch of them to the small local (35 miles away) library, much to the delight of the librarian. Jamie Oliver's Great Britain is staying here.
More British cookbooks (including three for under $1) that made the cut below. . .
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