Moving. Kind of.

I’m moving the bulk of my cooking posts to our new farm blog. Since cooking is such an integral part of the homesteading experience, I want to include my cooking posts with all our other homesteading information. This blog will remain open for any fancy projects that may not fit in with homesteading.

I tried the five-minute chocolate mug cake for the first time today. It was really yummy and made a large mug full of cake. I followed the recipe verbatim except I was concerned with the lack of leavening. I added about 1/2 tsp. of baking powder with the dry ingredients.

Hot Peppers

I chopped some jalapeños last night for some mango pineapple salsa I was making (recipe will be posted later today) and I just can’t seem to get the sting out of my skin. I’ve squeezed limes, washed my hands several times and even taken two showers since making the salsa and they still sting. Any [...]

Making Fondant

Every month, my mother’s family has a family reunion. This month, it’s the day before Easter so my mother and I planned to make a carrot cake and decorate it with an Easter theme.
Her job in all of this was to make the cake. We found a recipe in one of my cake decorating books, [...]

Hello world!

Hi, my name is Chandler (at least online) and I am a 30-year old married woman from Clayton, NC (soon to be Stella, NC, hopefully) with a passion for cooking and watching cooking shows. I am notorious in my family for seeing something on TV and then having to try it myself. I also go [...]