mini burrata

A caterer friend of mine asked if I could make some miniature burrata cheese.  Burrata is fresh mozzarella cheese wrapped around a mixture of ricotta and heavy cream.  You usually see it in a larger format, but she was looking for little ones.  They came out really cute, kind of like a won ton or dumpling.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep

- quote from Robert Frost

I took a walk around the perimeter of my land for the first time this year.  Walking in the woods is the most peaceful and inspirational thing to do. 

I was pursued closely by the Kingsley Death Panther!  Actually this is Rudy, who followed me the whole way, which was the cutest thing ever.  I have walked in woods with dogs and goats, but never a house cat.

double your bunny

Licky & Blackie in the hen yard

she's my Rockstar

Disclaimer:  Margaret was NOT drinking this beverage.  A mechanic left it in their car and she was throwing it out.

big sky

A local boutique was having a spring cleaning sale, and I bought a very, very large piece of art:  a beautiful photograph of a stormy sky printed on vinyl.  I love skies like this, where there is sun in the foreground but dark behind

I took a photograph of the back of my house last year with similar light 

and a picture I cut out of National Geographic hat has been hanging on my bulletin board for years

the sweetest, gentlest creatures

Thank you, pretty cow, that made

Pleasant milk to soak my bread,

Every day and night,

Warm, and fresh, sweet and white

Do not chew the hemlock rank,

Growing by the weedy bank,

But the yellow cowslips eat,

They perhaps will make it sweet

Where the purple violets grow,

Where the bubbling water flows,

Where the grass is fresh and fine,

Pretty cow, go there to dine

- Ann Taylor

(1782-1866)

devilish

I love post-Easter deviled eggs, tinged with different colors