Monthly Archives: April 2011

Take-A-Peak Chicken Coop Tour

Posted on April 30, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Hello!  Hello!  Please Come, One And All!  You are invited to the Second Annual Take-A-Peak Chicken Coop Tour, of which we are a part!  (good grammar, huh?) Today was the first day, sorry I didn’t notify you before now, but … Continue reading →

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Dream List Update

Posted on April 23, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Remember back in January?  Remember when I showed you my Dream List?  Well, I’ve done some of them and some are in progress, so I thought I’d give you an update: Plant at least 6 fruit trees:  DONE!  2 apple, 1 cherry, … Continue reading →

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Yesterday, In My Life As An Urban Farmgirl.

Posted on April 15, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

1.  Nightmare of goats in the kitchen eating the freshly roasted pumpkin seeds.  I got up at 6:30ish am. 2.  Got the kids ready for school. 3.  Milked.  Collected eggs.  Bottle fed the baby girl goat.  4.  Threw down some … Continue reading →

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IT’S RAINING!!!!!!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Farmer’s, gardeners and The Coalition of Activists Against Dry Weather are doing a rain dance tonight.  A thank-you-for-finally-raining dance.  A Thank-God-The-Heavens-Finally-Opened-Up-And-Are-Pouring dance tonight.  A hallelujah.  A celebration.  We are having glowing premonitions of what our bone dry dirt yards and … Continue reading →

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Caprese Salad

Posted on April 12, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

One of my favorite things about The Goat Cheese Making Class is the people I meet….And, I meet a lot of foodies, chefs and closet cooks.  Many of them talk about Caprese Salad.  Once I found out what it was, … Continue reading →

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Tim’s Meat

Posted on April 7, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

If only you could taste these pictures.  But the pictures don’t do any justice to the meat.  They show you a slab of raw meat, then a cut into piece of cooked meat.  Great.  Big deal.  Well, let me tell … Continue reading →

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Strawberries and Whipped Cream

Posted on April 5, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

The only challenge about this is that to make whipped cream from goat’s milk cream, you need patience.  And I mean it. I don’t have a separator and since goat’s milk is naturally homogenized, it gets only about 1/8 to … Continue reading →

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The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe Ever

Posted on April 4, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

My six-year-old turned seven.  He requested this delicious, chocolatey, fudgey cake with the most to-die-for chocolate frosting.  I have had to limit the times per year that I make this cake, however, because the tire around my normally smallish waist … Continue reading →

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Art and Rachel

Posted on April 2, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Ohhhhh.  The big day.  The day Art and Rachel GOT The Beast.  The 30-something foot long 5th wheel trailer with 3 slide outs they’d been wanting.  Complete with the brand new truck to pull it.  They live up a really … Continue reading →

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String Cheese Snake

Posted on April 1, 2011 by The Goat Cheese Lady

How to get your kids to eat cheese: –  The Goat Cheese Lady

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