Apple Jack Creek

Living on a small holding in rural Alberta, raising kids and animals, growing stuff, creating things with fibre, and living with PTSD. See more at www.applejackcreek.com.

26 January 2010

The Food Mill: a truly awesome kitchen gadget

For Christmas, my parents gifted me with a new food mill . This is a truly awesome kitchen gadget! Applesauce: Cook up a bunch of apples...

Independence Days: January 2010

It’s about time we did another Independence Days update, I think. Having just obtained my very own copy of Sharon Astyk’s book of the same ...

31 December 2009

Peace and Quiet for the New Year

I love peace and quiet. I suppose that too much of it would get boring, but I can’t actually think of any set of circumstances in my life ...

18 December 2009

Bounty from the food cooperative

Today I picked up my first produce order from the local food purchasing cooperative . For only $8 we received: 5 onions 3 giant pot...

28 November 2009

A wonderful thing happened to me today!

For my birthday, my awesome husband gave me a $20 gift certificate for the local yarn store. Today I finally had a chance to go in there and...

23 November 2009

Spaghetti Squash Soup

Spaghetti squash is an odd sort of vegetable. This sturdy, almost-impossible-to-cut-open yellow squash cooks up to reveal stringy insides th...

15 November 2009

Pea Soup for Supper

Whole green peas (dehydrated from the garden), about a cup Yellow split peas, about 3/4 of a cup Dehydrated red peppers, a small handfu...

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