My ministry of cooking, canning, growing, and sharing!



My ministry of cooking, canning, growing, and sharing!

Three years ago we bought a small farm with ten acres. The property had a mucky creek on the South side that was covered in raspberry brambles and poison ivy. The back six acres were so overgrown that I couldn't make it half way through the first pasture. There was mud, 10 foot tall weeds, about ten million ground hogs, and a house with "fabulous" 80's wall paper on EVERY surface. I looked at this property and my mind was spinning with possibilities of what I could grow, raise, and even forage off this little plot of land. My husbands mind, who was standing in nearly the exact same spot, was spinning with the thought of how much work he had ahead of him.

From my Farm to my Kitchen is a way for me to share my stories, recipes, failures, and successes. It is a way for me to tell you how sharing with others has opened the flood gates for abundant blessings, new friendships, and great lessons.

We have fought to "take back" parts of our property that had been swallowed by willows and scrub trees. My husband has suffered the wrath of the evil wood emperor, Sir Poison Ivy and our five children have worked tirelessly to help with chores like, "go get Mommy some basil" or I KNOW there's a Morel out there, GO FIND IT!

Please enjoy this glorious adventure with our family. Learn the lessons that I stumbled over, take the great recipes that I share and leave the miserable ones. I am hoping to write each day but you never know if the kitchen or the laundry monster will get me!!

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Vanilla Maple Cream

My daughters and I are addicted to coffee.  Not that strong, manly, black coffee.  We are addicted to that sweet, creamy, really high calorie, covered in Cool Whip kind of coffee.  We simply love the fake french vanilla coffee creamer and I buy it in bulk.  

Is this odd?  Only when you have a dairy cow out back and try really hard not to eat any processed food, AND, eat mostly organic.  So I decided to try my hand at making a sweet vanilla cream from our home products.

I have to say that it's pretty good so here's the recipe~

1 Pint of cream
1/4 cup of Maple syrup
1Tbs of vanilla.

Delicious!!!

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