Baking up a storm
Thirteen months ago, I cooked my first
Thanksgiving dinner. I was daunted by the task, so I made
extensive lists with start times for each dish.
It's funny how far I've come since then. Tomorrow, I'm having
Mom, Maggie, and Joey over for Christmas lunch, and though I've made
lists they're far less extensive. This morning, I whipped up a
cranberry raisin pie, two little pumpkin pies, peach turnovers, and
cranberry sauce (all sugar free for Joey.)
I dried out some bread crumbs for stuffing and am slowly thawing out
the free range turkey breast in some water in the sink. In the
fridge, I'm thawing green beans, corn, summer squash, apple cider, and
chicken broth (for the stuffing), all homemade.
Of course, the hardest part is yet to come --- making the trailer and
yard presentable for visitors!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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