Tag: eggs

• I can’t find Pania the Peahen .. now what could she be up to?

  Tui  the peahen is still on her nest (her eggs are due to hatch on July 2nd) and Pania the other peahen has slowly become more and more absent.  And now I have no idea where she is. There are a few more hiding places to search but Hmm… I think to myself. I wonder…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 20, 2013

  Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography

  animal photography, celi, chickens, eggs, images, peahen, The kitchen’s garden

• How to steam eggs – no need to boil at all.

  I have always had trouble peeling boiled eggs.  No matter what method I tried I could not do it. Every egg I peeled looked .. well .. pitted, mauled, savaged. I never had this problem when I was young but in my impatient adult years I developed some kind of egg peeling condition. But I…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  February 10, 2013

  Farming, Life, Recipes

  eggs, food, hereford pig, how to steam eggs, steaming eggs, winter honey

• The lovely tiredness that comes from good hard work

  I am not used to working so hard anymore, my body has gone into winter mode but this brief respite from the cold  must not be wasted. So I shoveled the proverbial almost all day yesterday. A new pile of compost was started. And the others were turned over.  And any areas that might have…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  January 10, 2013

  Farming, Life, Organic farming, Photography

  cleaning out the pens in the barn, eggs, mastoblast, peacocks tail feathers, thaw

• Shuffling the cards of cows.

  On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow.  Just a little.  Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well.  When I counted the hay bales the other day, and after doing the rather rudimentary maths  associated with this exercise, which frankly is as far…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 29, 2012

  Bees, Farming, Life, Photography

  bees, chickens, cows, eggs, feed, hay

• Little Party Nibbles: Mini Apple Sponge Cakes

  My sister is having a few parties in NZ this month. And as I am 8,961 miles away  (14,421 km) I am not sure I can make it.  So I am going to join in by sending her a couple of my favourite party nibble recipes.  Though I never called them parties, we had gatherings.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  December 5, 2011

  Baking, Recipes

  apple, apple sponge cakes, eggs, pastry, rooster, sponge