Prissy, as her friends know her, loves zuchinni!  She will actually stand up on the fence and beg for it!  One day she refused to eat her dinner until she got her zuchinni.  Our friend John brought her some too. 

Prissy is quite clean and bathes daily.  She likes to drink from the hose and she makes her own bed if you give her some straw.  Being a baby she puts everything into her mouth to experiment with it so we have to keep an eye on her.  She loves her roomate-barnmate–Lunar Ganymede, and gets upset when he is turned out with his mom and wanders too far away from her.  She is becoming quite a character and has changed Celia’s mind about pigs.

Posted: July 27th, 2008 under Bubbles the Goat and Friends, Chile Acres.
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Here is the answer!  Americanas or Aracanas lay those pretty blue eggs we have at the market on Saturdays.  Here are the girls enjoying the weeds pulled from the garden.  Since we don’t use any pesticides we have plenty of weeds during monsoon season for their “chicken salad delight”!

Posted: July 27th, 2008 under Chile Acres, eggs.
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“Bobo”, or Beauregard is growing up nicely and is about to move to his bachelor digs.  Once a buck goat reaches sexual maturity–which can be as early as 3-4months, you want to seperate them from the females unless you are planning to breed them.  Bucks get really stinky when they go into rut around the end of August and through the fall.  Bobo will hang out with our stallion Extreme Dream.

Fric and Frac are growing up and are very playful in the mornings and evenings when it is coolest.  Here is Frac…and here is Fric!

So now weaning has begun.  It is a time of screaming and stress for everybody.  We slowly seperate moms and babies and just keep a chainlink section between them so they can still see each other.  We used to try to move them to seperate parts of the farm but they became hoarse from yelling back and forth to each other.  Without weaning we can’t collect any milk though!

IS IT MY TURN YET?

Training the new girls to stand for milking can be quite wild.  Sometimes people at the market ask how I know that goat milk is good for your skin when they are looking at the goat milk soap.  I have had several milk baths while trying to train the girls to stand quietly for milking!

Posted: July 27th, 2008 under Barn Goddess Goat Cheese Products, Bubbles the Goat and Friends, Chile Acres.
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Cool, quick, and elegant for a summer salad or for a side dish to chicken or fish for dinner!

Ingredients:

1 cup of prepared and cooled couscous

1 chopped green onion bunch

1/2 cup raspberries

1/2 cup cranraisons

1 4 0z container of Barn Goddess Chipotle Marinated Goat Cheese (oil and all)

1/2 tsp dried mint or 1/8 cup of chopped fresh mint

Salt to taste

Procedure:

Mix everything into a large bowl.  Sprinkle with salt.  Chill for two or more hours.  Serve on a bed of crisp greens. 

Bubbles warns you not to leave your goats untended around crisp greens:)

Posted: July 27th, 2008 under Barn Goddess Goat Cheese Products, Recipes.
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A Hot Mouthful for an Appetizer or Snack!

Ingredients:

12 Jalepeno or Anaheim Chili Peppers slit open (only on one side so that you have a little shell left to stuff) with seeds removed

4 os of Garlic or Plain Barn Goddess Goat Cheese Fromage

1 beer

1/2 cup of flour

1 fresh and natural Chile Acre’s Egg

salt to taste

Oil to fry in

Procedure:

Stuff each chili pepper with goat cheese

Mix flour and egg together then add a little of the beer at a time until you have a batter the consistency of pancake batter

Heat oil for frying

Dip each stuffed chili in the batter and coat on all sides

Drop chili’s in the hot oil and fry until golden brown

Drain the chili’s on paper towels

Serve with goat yogurt, sourcream, or salsa

Bubbles says she likes the faces that some people make when they eat chili peppers and turn red and sweat–it makes her giggle!

Mix

Posted: July 22nd, 2008 under Barn Goddess Goat Cheese Products, Recipes.
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Cool, Quick, and Refreshing!

Ingredients:

Medjool Dates from Sonoran Date Palms (local and organic)–pitted

1/4 cup raw walnuts

4oz of Barn Goddess Plain Fromage Goat Cheese

Procedure:

Press a tablespoon of goat cheese into each date.

Press a walnut on top.

Enjoy!

Additional ideas:

Roll stuffed dates in poweder sugar, white or dark chocolate, or coconut.

Posted: July 8th, 2008 under Barn Goddess Goat Cheese Products, Recipes.
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Ingredients:

4oz of Barn Goddess Goat Cheese–Garlic or Fiesta are best

4 bell peppers seeded and caps off

brown rice simmered in tomato sauce until fully cooked

ground beef ( optional)

extra tomato sauce spiced as you like it

Procedure:

In a bowl mix meat, beans, rice and a little tomato sauce

Stuff each pepper and set upright in a pan for the oven or on top of the stove for slow simmer

Top with one ounce of goat cheese for each pepper

Fill bottom of pan to at least 1 inch level with tomato sauce

Place in oven or on stove top and bake/simmer until chilies are tender

Place under broiler to brown the top and cheese for a few minutes –5 is good

Make some extra becuase the neighbors will smell them cooking and will come knocking!

Posted: July 1st, 2008 under Barn Goddess Goat Cheese Products, Chile Acres, Recipes.
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During the summer Celia makes tons of soap during the heat of the day after working out with the animals until 11:00 am or so. One of our first products to make on the farm was Goat Milk Soap.  Our family has allergies to fragrances and dyes in many commercial projects so it started out as an experiment when we realized we had lots of goat milk and couldn’t drink it all!  Now, 16 years later, it is one of our most popular products and has been shipped all over the world.  Clients with skin conditions order whole lots and we put in herbs and spices, flowers and other medicinal herbal blends.  All scents are derived from essential oils so that reactions to the skin would only occur if the person is allergic to the actual plant used.

These bars have just emerged from the molds and will cure for 4 to 6 weeks before they will be labeled, gift wrapped and made ready for sale. Only then can they be endorsed by Bubbles!

Posted: July 1st, 2008 under Bubbles the Goat and Friends, Chile Acres, Uncategorized.
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