We made dinner for friends last night and almost everything on the menu was grown right here on Spy Dog Farm. We started with a gumbo made with okra out of our raised garden beds and Freedom Ranger chicken. For the entree, I grilled a butterflied leg of lamb from a recently slaughtered ram-ling. I […]
This cheese really shouldn’t be called “ricotta” because there’s no “ri” in it. A true ricotta is made by re-cooking the whey from an initial cheese making. Our “cotta”–the one we make from our Jersey cow’s milk–is only cooked once. But we love it anyway. We love it so much, in fact, that it’s now […]
My wife is harvesting a bumper crop of tomatillos in her first year of raised bed plantings here at Spy Dog Farm. They look like green tomatoes, and are part of the nightshade family, but Physalis philadelphica is actually related to the gooseberry and comes in a papery husk that looks like a Chinese lantern. […]
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