Ever on the quest for new recipes, I was flipping through my cookbook Southern Living: 30 Years of Our Best Recipes and came up with the following meal: Balsamic marinated chicken with beer rice and sugared carrots. The balsamic chicken browned beautifully while cooking and had a really nice flavor of rosemary and balsamic. Nothing […]

Almost 2 1/2 weeks since my last post. I know; it’s just not acceptable! The first week I didn’t have much of an excuse. Stefan was on vacation but we only went to visit his parents for a few days – so I should have been able to keep you updated. Last week, I was […]

I know it was a month ago already (WHAT?!?!) but I’ve been busy. So please forgive the lateness of this post…oh, and thee are still two more parts to the christening weekend to come. Maybe I will get those done before June is over… As the parent of a young child, you often get to […]

I mentioned briefly that we had all our water tanks set up now. When we added a 1000 liter IBC tank to our courtyard, it replaced a 120 liter rain barrel. So we moved the small rain barrel over by the guest house where another rain barrel was already sitting. Then bought a little plastic […]

I was just out in the garden and picked 1.658 kilos of strawberries. That’s over 3.5 pounds of strawberries! And the good news is, there’s going to be a whole lot more over the next couple of weeks. What are we going to do with all these berries? Well, I’m planning to make pound cake […]