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!
February continues our winter baking efforts. We just finished eating another loaf of sourdough bread and a batch of raspberry scones, which Maggie made from frozen garden raspberries. Maggie and I both love magazines and have over a dozen bookmarked on our Libby library app. One recent additional was Bake from Scratch magazine. I noticed the magazine appeared to kick off a 'cookie of the month' series with the first issue of the year. Because magazines now seem to be issued
This weekend was my first attempt at making a loaf of sourdough bread, using my newly created starter. I do not have a photo of the result, as anyone who has produced a failed loaf of bread would recognize it. It was flat on the outside and gummy on the inside. We still ate it, but I was dogged by the failure. I did learn a few things, such as how to use a dutch oven and how to get a thick, dark crust. Determined to succeed, I decided to try again midweek. Making sourdough br
