The Roost Ranch

Just another moment of clarity… 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤣😂 Enjoy your ☕️☕️☕️ folks and have an awesome day!!!

Quick question for you guys that have been to the airport lately, we are headed to Cabo for Jason’s Birthday🎉
This new face scanning thing- do you comply or not? Just curious. I chose not to- Jason was fine with it. What about you?

Yesterday I made pine cone jam, fermented pine soda, homemade Pine-Sol, and popcorn ice cream (topped with crackerjacks and Carmel) Productive day! 

Today is Nolan’s Birthday!🎉 23 years of loving this awesome young man.
He just graduated and is working at Camp Barnabas for one more summer before he starts his job. So he is not here with us🥲 I am sad to not be with him on his birthday, but we will celebrate him when he gets back!

Two new black Angus calves born in the last month- so cute!
One of the babies is “Chip” born from my mom’s cow Mrs. Potts.

Today I used some of the zucchini from my garden, wild blackberries from our property, and blueberries we picked this weekend. This is what I made and they were all delicious! 

Between having to get permits for all the coops plus fencing permits for the attached runs plus a farm use affidavit in AG-1 plus permits for other types of builds it’s getting ridiculous. We own our land yet have to pay for permits to build chicken coops 🥴

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DID YOU KNOW?

🐝There are live enzymes in honey.

🐝When in contact with a metal spoon, these enzymes die.

🐝The best way to eat honey is with wooden or plastic spoon.

🐝Honey contains a substance that helps your brain work better.

🐝Honey is one of the rare foods on earth that alone can sustain human life.

🐝One teaspoon of honey is enough to sustain human life for 24 hours.

🐝Propolis that bees produce, is one of the most powerful natural antibiotics

🐝Honey has no expiration date.

🐝The bodies of the great emperors of the world were buried in golden coffins and then covered with honey to prevent putrefaction.

🐝The term "honeymoon" comes from the fact that newlyweds consumed honey for fertility after the wedding.

🐝A bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1000 flowers and produces less than a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

🐝One of the first coins had a bee symbol on it.

Deep gratitude to the humble BEE!🐝

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Another unique Irish culinary invention, mentioned in an earlier post, is buttered eggs, a unique and tasty way to preserve eggs.

Invented in time immemorial, probably due to the proliferation of butter on the island, the Irish developed this method to preserve eggs. It became so popular that the exportation of buttered eggs to England numbered in the tens of thousands of dozens every year during the English colonial times. Rubbed over freshly laid eggs, the butter melts, forming a thin protective layer.

Because the shell is porous, it absorbs the butter to form a more protective seal. Curious, I took one home. Soft-boiled, it tasted fresh from the hen, the yolk the color of sunshine, the white carrying with it a whiff of cream. Today, buttered eggs are a delicacy, largely vanished from Irish farmyards and pantries. You can’t butter eggs by machine, as it’s an intimate practice involving the hand. Every one needs to be done by hand. Farmers’ wives used to say it was a task most difficult to execute in winter when the butter was harder and their hands were colder. So perhaps, in addition to the egg and the butter, what I taste is the memory of an Irish woman whose palm coaxed butter lovingly all the way around a fragile shell, hoping to preserve it for as long as she could.

That might seem counterintuitive. Why waste butter on the outside of an egg? But clever Irish farmers had hit on buttering eggs as a way to preserve them during winters when hens produce less. Taking freshly laid, still-warm eggs, farm families rolled them in their buttery palms. The butter helped solidify the hot, brittle shells, sealing off the yolky contents from the outside air.

Buttered eggs take on a shiny gleam. And, as an added bonus, the taste of butter permeates the egg, making it even richer when cracked open and cooked. Eggs preserved this way keep for up to six months in a cool place, and I have had them last even longer. It’s not surprising that buttered eggs were a Cork specialty, seeing as it’s also home to the Cork Butter Museum, a tribute to the region’s status as a butter-producing powerhouse.

They can be found at markets in Ireland, and I make them regularly as a homestead specialty. If you keep chickens or know someone local who does, then you can too!

The Newest addition to The Roost Ranch! “Chip” is our new Miniature Lowline Angus. So precious! Mrs. Potts finally had her baby 🎉

Chip finally came just days before my knee replacement thank God!

Mrs. Potts is actually my Mom’s cow. We have been waiting for almost 2 years for her to have a calf!
Laura Legg Baxter

Biden should be very careful about mocking the Bible! He will stand before his creator sooner rather than later (at his age) and it won’t be pretty! 

So proud of Avery! She had an amazing art show at Baylor. We knew she was talented, but her work blew us away! We loved having Nolan explain each piece. You could see how proud he was of her. It was such a fun night, and we loved being with her family.

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Message or text me if you need some farm fresh eggs!

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Thanks Dre

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Rosie our Beautiful heifer calf up for discussion: miniature Hereford and black Angus mix. 

I have some potbelly pig babies in Lindale Texas. They are super cute and super small. Message me if you’re interested.

More piggy pics!

Amen

2 days old Mini Potbelly Piglets!