Featured Community Member: Amybyrd21

Written Monday, October 26th, 2009 by Anne Coleman

Half Hour Meals community member, Amybyrd21 lives on a real working farm and chronicles her life there, in food, photos and more, on her blog, The Wayland Springs Cook. Besides being a very active member here, she also home-schools her children, cooks up a storm in her farm kitchen and writes a second blog, Amy's Favorite Food Products. She's one busy gal, but she took a moment to share more about herself with us.

Your blog, The Wayland Springs Cook is not just about cooking. What types of posts would one expect to find at your blog? My blog The Wayland Springs Cook is about homesteading, living off the land, pigs,chickens, bees, and cooking on the farm. The posts are generally about everyday life and about raising bees and pigs.

What kind of things might we find on a walk through your back yard? We raise bees (2 hives to start), 17 pigs at the moment, 39 chickens, 2 ducks, and 2 dogs. In the summer we raise tomatoes, onions, cabbages, potatoes, beans, peas, broccoli, okra, lettuce, watermelons, cantaloupes,turnip greens,corn, and peppers of all kinds.

What is the inspiration behind your blog? It started to let people know things about homesteading and a way to share my recipes. Now I use it for recipes and educating the public about pigs, bees, farm issues and green living.

Having a family and blogging can be a difficult to balance. How does it work for you? I blog at night when my husband is here to take care of the kids. This is my quiet time and a time that I use to wind down at the end of the day.

You've contributed so many recipes here at HHM, do you have a favorite in the bunch?
Bavarian Cheesecake. It is my favorite because it has a light and fluffy texture and a thin cake on top and bottom.

Name a handful of ingredients that you couldn't live without. Tomatoes, cheese, real butter, potatoes, and onions.

Share with us a day in your kitchen - what is the daily food like in your home? On the weekends we start out with a big breakfast of fried potatoes, sausage, bacon, homemade biscuits, gravy and eggs. Then at lunch we have sandwiches or leftovers from the night before. Dinner is whatever happens I never plan at all unless we have company. It normally consists of meat, potatoes, dried beans and corn bread. During the week the kids like to make ethnic foods and experiment with foods in the kitchen.

How long have you been a member at Half Hour Meals? Close to the first days it was launched.

What's your favorite thing about the site? Getting to meet different people with the same interest as I have and learning form them.

Have you tried others' recipes from Half Hour Meals? Yes I have made Sausage and Potato Pasties and Pumpkin Custard. We are hoping to try at least one a week for something different in the house.

If others were to ask you about Half Hour Meals, how would you describe the site to them?
A foodie's paradise.

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