Home Improvement, Sustainability, and Organic Gardening in Progress
What do you do when your only child goes off to college? You buy an old farmstead in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, of course!
Rehabbing a farmhouse, gardening, and dabbling with sustainability is keeping us busy. Share our adventures through our writings and photos of the work in progress!
In keeping with our winter baking run, I am attempting to make sourdough bread. This is not new for us; Maggie has been successfully making sourdough bread for years. I have limited myself to using store-bought yeast, so I thought I would give sourdough a try. The first step has been to make a starter, which is just an equal mixture of flour and water. I am following a routine from America's Test Kitchen, which creates a small volume of starter that then gets scaled up when n
Winter brings a different style of cooking. We use frozen and preserved fruits and vegetables to make casseroles and pastas, replacing the lighter fare from the summer garden. Because it is cooler, it is also more pleasant to spend time in a warm kitchen. We have been baking a lot of breads and desserts, and today we made fresh pasta. It is a good way to use eggs, and the noodles are tasty. It is a little bit of a process. The first step is making the dough, which then chills
