With baby goats and chickens comes fresh milk and eggs!
It is such a great feeling to be able to gather food with your own hands that you made happen; raising chickens for eggs and milking mama goat by hand does take some work but the rewards are worth it! We gather eggs daily, we get many and are not able to use them all so we share the wealth and pass them along to friends and family. Same with the milk - we use what we need to for cheese, yogurt and daily cereals and recipes like pancakes and soap and give a lot away as well.
There really is something about holding onto eggs and milk so fresh they are still warm and just wondering what magic you can make from them!

Basic ricotta cheese recipe for when you want to make lasagna or stuffed shells...makes about 2 pounds of cheese:

1 gallon fresh goat milk
Approximately 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar (use your own freshly made! See my other blog posts for how to!)
2-3 Tablespoons melted butter
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Heat your milk to 195*F
Slowly add the vinegar a little at a time stirring as the curds and whey separate (takes a few minutes)
Remove the curds with a slotted spoon to a cheesecloth lined strainer
Drain for a minute or two then add the melted butter and baking soda
Stir to combine, refrigerate up to one week

Love, love, love apple season!!!  We do grown our own, the crop this year did not yield as much as past years but we have enough to make some things!

After grabbing all the apples from the trees, mostly Mutsu but one or two Ida Reds, we gave the "undesirables" to Apache!  He loves them and was waiting, somewhat impatiently, for us to toss some over.

I ended up making some mulled apple jelly, adding cinnamon, allspice, and clove to the recipe!  It was my first time using Weck canning jars, I usually use Ball but these are so pretty!  Miss that "ping" though...if you know, you know!

I used most of the apples for a new batch of apple cider vinegar and am looking forward to it being done!  I love the smell, it is just so healthy!

What do you make with fall apples? Would love a recipe, post one if you got one!

Happy Fall!!!