Posted on January 29th, 2015 by mountain girl | Comments Off on carrot ginger curry soup
Here’s a creamy vegan carrot soup I threw together for lunch. I used what I had on hand, and it turned out really yummy. It would be great topped with a squeeze of lime, but I had a lemon and it worked out fine. I also happen to like mine topped with chopped tomatoes. 🙂 […]
Posted on January 21st, 2015 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
We took a trip to the feed store and got our hay, straw, feed, and all things goaty. We pulled it all up the mountain in a trailer and set up a feed storage area in the basement. David has been working like crazy to finish the shed (with rubber flooring) and build a pen. […]
Posted on January 15th, 2015 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
I have two lovely new things to show you today. 🙂 The first is a worktable for my basement studio. I needed one to replace the shaky easel that Cash has almost upended more than once. We haven’t bought many things at IKEA, but we found this great solid wood tabletop that you can pair with […]
Posted on January 6th, 2015 by mountain girl | 10 Comments »
Since I was a kid reading Abe Lincoln biographies, I’ve always had an itch to whittle something. Last month I finally gave it a try…can I get a woo-hoo! I used basswood, and after some research, decided on a set of Flexcut tools. I found it was really worthwhile to spend the extra money and […]
Posted on January 1st, 2015 by mountain girl | 10 Comments »
Zia insisted we needed to “bake a HUGE cake” today. So we did–but not exactly a huge one. We had just about enough flour, sugar, eggs, and confectioner’s sugar for half a cake, so we made a one-layer vanilla cake. It was plenty–with leftovers to freeze until Caleb comes home. (Not that you’re saving any […]