Out on the farm we have to rely on each other. A few weeks ago we had a tornado out here in Tonopah. We lost some awnings and a tree but all of us were ok. After the storm we started looking around at the damage and saw these two out for a stroll. Looked like they were reassuring each other. Nothing like good friends and neighbors at a time like that!
Posted: August 10th, 2010 under Chile Acres.
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Louise Baker recently contacted us about being a guest blogger at Chile Acres. She does Zen reviews. We are proud to share our little corner of the world with her. We are of course proud patrons of the Pomegranate Cafe! They feature many of our gluten free vegan items and our natural eggs from the farm and our goat cheese crumbles in their salads.
5 Great Websites for Vegans
Below is a list of 5 great websites for vegans. These websites have a wealth of information including recipes, menus, animal friendly products and dietary information. The websites below range from blogs, to restaurants and vegan grocery stores.
1. www.pomegranatecafe.com
The Pomegranate Cafe is located in Phoenix, Arizona. The cafe offers nourishing and revitalizing food and drinks that use only fresh organic ingredients. The Pomegranate Cafe is founded on the belief that taste and presentation are enhanced by using wholesome ingredients. The Pomegranate cafe is currently introducing more energizing, live foods to its menu. Dining at the Pomegranate Cafe will leave you feeling nourished and deeply satisfied.
2. www.Lovetoknowvegetarian.com
This is a vegetarian website that focuses on different types of vegetarians. The website has information on both vegetarian and vegan diets. On this website you will learn different ways to prepare tofu, important things to know about switching to a raw food diet, the advantages of a vegan diet and much more. There is also good nutritional information on this website, if you are considering becoming a vegetarian or vegan.
3. www.FoodFightGrocery.com
FoodFight!. is an online vegan grocery store. It offers vegetarian-based imitation meats products, candy and chips. You will also find items such as vitamins, beverages, books, baked goods and even some exotic items, such as vegan caviar! They also carry a variety of teas.
4. www.fatfreevegankitchen.com
The Fat Free Vegan Kitchen’s Blog offers information on a fat free vegan lifestyle. The main focus of the site is fat free vegan recipes for everything from omelets to vegan cake recipes, including vegan chocolate cake. The site won the 2009 Vegie awards. They have a truly wonderful assortment of fat free vegan recipes which will delight your palate. You will also find archives of previous blog posts featuring many more recipe ideas and links to other vegan blogs.
5. www.ethicalplanet.com
Ethical Planet.com offers products that are both animal friendly and earth friendly. On their website, you will find an assortment of vegan items ranging from makeup to vegan cooking books. They also carry vegan shoes, vegan pet accessories and even vegan jewelry.
These are 5 great websites for vegans or aspiring vegans to explore. Each website has different products, services and knowledge to offer to its customers. In today’s world, there are many dietary options available to us. A vegan diet is healthy because it is rich in vitamins and minerals from whole grains, fruits and vegetables. A vegan diet is both environmentally and animal friendly. If the food is prepared with locally-grown organic ingredients, it also supports our local economies and reduces the carbon footprint of the food we are eating.
Louise Baker ranks online degrees for Zen College Life. She most recently wrote about the best colleges online.
Posted: August 9th, 2010 under Fresh From the Goddess LLC.
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On Monday we went to visit Robbin Robinson and her Churro Sheep Flock in order to select a ram for our ewes. Robbin taught us about fiber details and confirmation faults and so much more! She is an amazing woman and shepherdess. We picked our new boy (the shy one peeking over his brother’s back) and enjoyed his bleating back down the hill from Leupp, AZ. When we arrived at home we were a little aprehensive about how his new roomate Manny might feel about him–but no worries. By that evening they were eating out of the same food trough like two old friends.
We have been joking about names for his offspring staying in the musical realm. “She–bop, Bah-bah-ran…”
Posted: July 21st, 2010 under Chile Acres.
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Friday June 11 we will debut at the Gluten Free Country Store in Gilbert.
This specialty store features gluten free foods only making it a safe haven for those that suffer from Celiac or allergies to wheat. Rowie will be there all day to hand out samples and answer questions about our many products. In addition to gluten free baked goods we offer gluten free-dairy free-egg free and items made with a variety of alternative flours and grains that are all certified gluten free ingredients.
Goat cheese and farm fresh eggs will be there too for all of our fans in the far east valley. The store is located at:
3345 S. Val Vista Drive
Gilbert Arizona
Hope to see you there:)
Posted: June 9th, 2010 under Fresh From the Goddess LLC.
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We have had some wonderful feedback over the years but we want to thank Mercedes this week for her compliments on our gluten free goodies. Mercedes said,”The best biscotti, muffins and brownies I ever had! Thank you for making something so good and affordable!” Thanks to you Mercedes for your kind words.
A new chef, April Marshall, used our plain chevre in a recipe for her graduation project. April said, “I wanted to thank you again for the wonderful cheese…everyone loved it!” Congratulations to April on her graduation!
Posted: June 9th, 2010 under Barn Goddess Goat Cheese Products, Fresh From the Goddess LLC.
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No, this isn’t exactly soup. Unless you like fuzzy soup and lanolin. This is stage one of processing the wool from the sheep. With the temp outside soaring around 110 degrees we decided to process a batch on our concrete porch and utilize the solar energy Arizona should be famous for. After several heatings and rinsings we should be ready to card this batch to try a new kind of felting for rugs. We hope to have some nice layered and appliqued felt rugs by the fall.
Posted: June 9th, 2010 under Chile Acres.
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The Metropolitan Youth Symphony had their last concert this week at the Ikeda Theater in Mesa. For a paltry sum of just $5 per person Jimmie and I had over 2 hours of sublime music. If we hadn’t seen how short and tiny the musicians from 3rd grade up were in stature we would never have believed that this was a youth symphony. Even the prelude to the concert of “fiddlers” playing western themed music was delightful. Mr. and Mrs. Arriola invited us to attend the concert in which their son Peter (who shares a birthday and love of the violin with Celia) played. We met the delightful family at the Farmer’s Market several years ago.
With so many school districts cutting music programs and the arts this is an oasis of culture for youngsters.
Kudos to the parents and Kudos to Peter and the other musicians for their hours of dedication and disciplined practice. We are proud of you Peter!!!!
If you didn’t know about this wonderful opportunity for kids and for your family to enjoy a splendid evening of music now you do! Visit www.azmys.orgto find out more. Also, if you shop at Amazon.com you can go through the mys site to do so and the organization recieves 10% referral fees for this worthy cause of supporting arts and our youth!
Posted: April 28th, 2010 under Chile Acres.
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Is it a bird, a plane, or is it super goat? How about just running and jumping for joy? I am trying to bottle this enthusiasm for future use. I think everyone needs to spend some time watching goats play in the pasture and take a big breath. Our friend John and his wife Caroline came out to do that a while back and here is what John caught on film.
Talulah was queen of the log that day. I must add that it was a brief reign since there were quite a few incumbents trying to dethrone her:)
Posted: April 27th, 2010 under Chile Acres.
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Our friend Karl had an Easter Brunch and bonnets were required. I figured that it would be no problem to create some sort of bonnet for each of us.
We slept in that Sunday morning–clear up to 6:00 a.m. No problem. Lots of time to feed the critters and still come up with fun bonnets for each of us…
Then we went out to the barn. The baby goats had decided that the grass is greener on the other side, or in this case the weeds are, and they were out in the desert. Several had realized that their moms had not followed them and were beginning to get a little anxious. It was loud and not exactly the kind of hallelujah chorus one has in mind for an Easter Sunday.
One of life’s little mysteries is: “How come an escaped animal can not go back in the way they came out?”
So now we are out of time and running late. I can’t find the hot glue gun sticks and I am feeling more harried than creative. I grabbed Jimmie’s old straw hat and took some nesting materials and some little eggs (when hens lay their first eggs they are tiny and cute) and some duct tape and turned him into the Chicken Man. Then a trip into the bathroom to fix my face and I realized that the fake vines that I put around the top of the bathroom wall could wrap around a straw bonnet that my sister-in-law had given me. I took a little lamb out of a flower arrangement from a few years back and shoved it into the ribbon on the brim. Figured that was “Easter-ish”.
So Easter Brunch was saved and all had a good time. The baby kids were where they belonged when we returned home:)
Posted: April 19th, 2010 under Chile Acres.
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Ingredients:
6 boiled potatoes
1 bunch chopped green onions
2 seeded and finely chopped chili peppers (Chile Acres Farms has some of the best heirloom types)
8 oz Barn Goddess Goat Feta or Fromage Blanc
Salt and Pepper to taste
4 cloves of finely chopped garlic
Procedure:
Slice potatoes 1/2 inch thick and gently toss in a bowl with all of the ingredients. Place in a greased casserole dish and bake at 350 degrees until bubbly and brown on top. Garnish with chopped chives. You can add bacon or ham chunks if you prefer. Just don’ t tell Priscilla our pig about it:)
Posted: April 15th, 2010 under Barn Goddess Goat Cheese Products, Chile Acres, Recipes.
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