P.s.

I hope everyone had a good holiday season and winter break. Now it's back to the everyday grind of being a full time college student as well as hobby farmer!

Cold weather

Why is that whenever cold weather sets in problems seem to almost always occur in everyone's lives? From my car not working properly to my poor leghorn chicken getting a frost bitten comb. It's one thing after another. Man am I ready for spring to hurry up and come. On a more positive note I have several new chickens and am working on transporting a lovely new coop home :). Also my seeds are started and are already beginning to sprout. I have also placed an order with my local CLUC group for some chicks in march. It will be my first endeavor into raising chickens for meat purposes. I am nervous and excited all the same. Now it's time to curl up under the quilt and dream of the spring to come.

Night night ;)

Voting and the DMV. Ugh.

So have you ever stopped to wonder why the DMV runs the way it does? I mean I can't help but wonder if these people get off in some strange way torturing is in this manner. First off let's start with the numbering system. How do you go from 93 (my number) to 225 (my friends number)? I mean even a two year old could tell you that there's something wrong with that. But alas here I am sitting in a throng of people wondering when I will finally be given a new drivers license.

Oh and I voted today! Happy election day everyone! And you know I am democrat but I don't care if you vote republican. At least vote. It's your civil right and duty. Otherwise you are just allowing other people to speak for you. There that's all in going to say haha.

Election day

Today's the day, the day we choose our future president, or the day that our future ends. That sounds so like, dark haha.
I just woke up and already I can tell that it's going to be a super long day. I am super annoyed at everything, and I am exhausted. I apparently really need to start going to bed earlier.
On a positive note. After months of bitching and lecturing one of my beat friends on the importance of voting, she has finally decided to vote! Yay! I am so proud of her. Though I think that she isn't nearly as excited to vote as I was when I was old enough to vote for Obama the first time. But then I did tell her that she had to be up and ready to go by eight fifteen. We aren't really morning people.
Then from voting I have to go to school and then to go and get my new drivers license or not to go and get my new drivers license. Decisions decisions. Hmmm. Well maybe for once I should do the responsible thi g and get it. Plus they close by four! So that means that I just have to survive the next ten hours!

Ciao xo

America the beautiful.

So what is it that makes America beautiful? And no I'm not talking about America Ferrera but instead this wonderful country we all call home. Is it that we are a democratic state where the people elect our officials? *cough cough* vote Obama *cough cough*. Is it that we are a country of religious freedoms and a separation of church and state? What is it that makes America a great country? It's none of those.
Hello deep fat Friday! That's right. We are an amazing country because we have created a culture that thrives on the necessity of having readily available fast food, i.e. fried foods. It's astounding the number of people who eat fried foods on a daily basis, and it continues to disgust me how often I wind up eating something that has been fried and a vat of fat. Haha vat of fat. I made a rhyme.
Well to continue with our education at school we did a day (deep fat Friday) where we learned all about the process of deep-fat frying by frying farm raised catfish, homemade onion rings, and just about anything that you can imagine. We even did a whole box of twinkies. That's ten twinkies!!!! I am pretty sure that I took off about five years of my life with all the artery clogging fat that I ingested. Enjoy the pictures.

Ciao xo

Oh and if you are wondering I tried to create the look of some deep sea monster with my plated catfish and onion rings haha.

Trying to catch up

So time just seems to escape me completely. Maybe it's just part of my habit to start another project and then stop in the middle and forget. But. I just an iPhone and have downloaded the blogger app so be prepared for a buttload of posts. Ready? Go!

And a picture of my girls for you all.

Ciao xo

Culinary Techniques

So I thought that since my blog is all about my journey to being greener and more organic as well as my journey to becoming a chef, I would start to share with you all our daily recipes and techniques that we are learning in class. Today's recipe was for Beef Stroganoff. I don't have a copy of the recipe on me at the moment as I am now blogging from my new iPhone as I feel like I will actually be able to continue posting to you all while at work and on the constant go. The wonders of today's technology. So the recipe will come soon. But here are some pictures of the dish. Oh and it was Delicious with a capital d.

Ciao xo