Category: Life

• Thinking ahead – way ahead

  Before I make a cheese cake I need to make cream cheese. Before I make cream cheese I need to make buttermilk. There are two ways to make buttermilk: allow the milk itself to culture. Which I will show you. But I am in a hurry now. Did you see the cheesecake recipe in the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 22, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  making cheese, milking a cow, monterey jack, planning menus, ricotta, thinking ahead

• Farmers Cheese

  I have a Cheese Book. Maybe you do too. Mine is in its fourth year.  In my Cheese Book I write the process for every wheel of cheese I make.  The year. The date. The weather.  What the cow is eating. The funny things that happen along the way that will influence the cheese.  Who…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 21, 2012

  Life, Low-Carb, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  cheese book, farmers cheese, fresh cheese, making cheese

• The Heat is On for Mama’s Butter Cake

  The high nineties is hot. Add the dry wind and it is very hot. All the animals have different coping mechanisms. The Matriarchs dog has decided that he would rather ride than walk.  So he sits like a mini king in his chariot. And the Tall Teenager pedals him all over the county on their…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 20, 2012

  Farm Animals, Life, Photography, Recipes, Sustainable farming

  butter cake, cows, pigs in the heat, sheep, the heat

• Daisy’s Cup Runneth Over

  My skinny girlie arms are SO tired. We collected 100 bales  of good alfalfa hay from my friend the straw man and then one by one we hauled them up into the mezzanine floor of the barn to wait for winter. The Teenager unloaded them from the trailer….and carried them through to  Our John who…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 18, 2012

  Life, Sustainable farming

  dealing with mistakes, hay, how much cows eat a day, owning your own mistake, pigs

• I smell like a cow

  Well to be precise by the end of the day yesterday I smelt like milk. Hopefully in a good way.  It was an odor that hung about me and made all the animals snuffle when I was close. So I figured I would go the whole hog last night and  make myself a special Friday…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 16, 2012

  Life, Photography, Sustainable farming

  cows milk, hereford piglets, milk cocktail, pigs eating, raw milk