Mmmmm, rabbit We’ve got so much rabbit and so very little freezer space right now, with more rabbits on the way. We needed to do something with all this rabbit and let’s face it, I’m getting a little tired of just braising it. Rabbit’s a very lean meat and can be quite tough if it’s…
I always wanted to make these after watching that movie, but I never got around to it until I had them at a friend’s house last year. This is a good way to use up all those green tomatoes that are left over when it gets too cold to turn them red. There are several…
I probably chose the two most difficult fruits to find commercially to combine into one jelly. Rose hips are available, but they are generally dried, and difficult to remove the seeds from. But if you’re lucky enough to have a quince tree and rugosa roses this is a fantastic way to combine them into a…
This is my new favorite way of eating eggs. It’s rich and salty and flavorful. Can you ask for anything more? 1/4 tsp butter 2 Tbs Cream (I skim the fresh cream off of our goats’ milk)2 eggsSalt and PepperChives 1. Preheat oven to 375 deg F2. With the butter, grease a ramekin3. Put the…
For as long as I could remember I’ve hated tomatoes. Raw tomatoes to be exact. We harvest hundreds of pounds of tomatoes every year and I can’t stand them. I like salsa fresca but it has to be blended almost smooth for me to eat it. If it’s got chunks of tomatoes I avoid them….
If you have chickens you probably have a good supply of eggs. One of the many things you can make with them is homemade mayonnaise. When I was in high school there was this guy from France that was staying with us. He thought it was so strange that Americans bought mayo and kept it…
Our tomatillos unfortunately succumbed to powdery mildew so it was time for us to just harvest what we had and process them. We ended up with 30lbs of tomatillos. Usually for me processing involves dehusking them, washing the sticky film off of them the best I can and sticking them in the freezer. This time…
Preserves were the first thing I learned how to can. We got gobs and gobs of various fruits every year – from nectarines to strawberries to figs to persimmons and everything in between. They sit in our freezer taking up space. Then we decided that preserves would make awesome gifts for people. I haven’t bought…
I had received this wonderful book called Homemade Cheese: Recipes for 50 Cheese from Artisan Cheesemakers by Janet Hurst to review. I’ve been making some cheese with our goat’s milk but not very much because they don’t produce a lot. I wanted to get more practice but it was going to take us a while…
Sometimes you don’t know you’re looking for something until you find it. Sometimes you’re just minding your own (or everybody else’s) business mindlessly surfing through facebook when a friend of yours posts a recipe to another friend of yours saying “we need to make this” and you can’t not look, because hey, it’s food and…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
