FarmerJ | January 11, 2010
Monday ~ French Toast Casserole; Sausage Patties Tuesday ~ Swedish Meatballs with Egg Noodles; Sweet Corn; Tossed Salad Wednesday ~ Pork Chops; Mashed Potatoes; Sugar Snap Peas Thursday ~ Okra and Tomato Stew Friday ~ Chicken Caesar Sandwiches; Homemade Freedom Fries; Corn Salad Saturday ~ Homemade Pizza and/or Calzones; Tossed Salad Sunday ~ Potato Gnocchi [...]
FarmerJ | January 11, 2010
We’ve completed the first week of the Eat From Your Pantry Challenge, and we’ve done a pretty good job of making meals from items we already had on hand. I did go to the grocery store last week ~ mainly to purchase the essentials…you know, flavored coffee creamer and toilet paper. But, I did pick [...]
FarmerJ | January 9, 2010
If you have only ten minutes to spare today, please spend it watching the video above. It is an interview with an amazing artist, Jon McNaughton, explaining his latest piece, One Nation Under God. I promise you ~ you have never seen anything quite like this…and I promise you, it will move you. Check out [...]
FarmerJ | January 8, 2010
It all started on New Year’s Day, when I began moving the remaining items and shelving units from my under-the-stairwell closet pantry location to a section in the Man Cave ~ the unfinished portion of the lower level of the Farmstead barn house. I had the shelving units situated along the wall, taking up one [...]
FarmerJ | January 5, 2010
Oh, how this would be helpful during the Eat From Your Pantry Challenge! I would thoroughly enjoy spending hours perusing the pages of this book ~ can you imagine all the neat tidbits of information contained behind that cover?! And, look at this one! Is that a jar of pickled eggs she’s holding before [...]
FarmerJ | January 4, 2010
Cheese and crackers! I did a terrible job at sticking to last week’s menu. In fact, looking back at it, the only thing I made was the Chicken and Dumplings yesterday. I mean, I have weeks when I deviate from the menu and will make cheeseburgers on Tuesday rather than Thursday, but my goodness ~ [...]
FarmerJ | January 3, 2010
When I started tracking my 2009 Monopoly Money Madness in January, I didn’t set out with any particular goal, other than to spend as much of my Monopoly money [save as much with coupons] as possible. For the first few months ~ basically until the ground thawed and the garden consumed my life ~ I [...]
FarmerJ | January 2, 2010
I’d kept telling Darling Husbie back in September, while we were busy picking squash, peas and popcorn, that winter was going to come early and it was going to be long ~ I could just feel it in the air…and I’d been watching those squirrels who were gathering much earlier than last year. We had [...]
FarmerJ | January 1, 2010
Happy New Year, family and friends! We hope you have enjoyed a wonderful Christmas holiday with those dear to you. May this new year be filled with His everlasting faithfulness, love, comfort, peace and tranquility. Today is the first day of not only a new year, but a new decade ~ an excellent opportunity to [...]
