Cheryl Wixson's Kitchen

A New Discovery: Winter Hill Farm yogurt

February 5, 2010 on 6:15 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Our local dairy has not had their usual abundance of milk this month, thus , “gasp”, there’s been no yogurt! On a trip to the Royal River Health Food store in Freeport early this week, I picked up a jar of yogurt produced by Winter Hill Farm, 35 Hill Road, Freeport. Their label says registered Randall Cattle…new to me. Yogurt was delicous, and we enjoyed it for breakfast on canned peaches (Five Star Nursery), topped with granola made by friend Heather from Aroostook county rolled oats. Great way to get the day moving!

The weather has been cold and our house is drafty, so any opportunity to light the oven is good. For lunch, I layered some roasted onions in the bottom of a casserole, sliced fresh tomatoes on top, (another purchase from Royal River, these tomatoes grown in the Madison greenhouses), dotted pesto and sprinkled with grated cheddar cheese (Sonnetal Dairy, arookstook county), baked until bubbly. My friend Robin had given me a bunch of fresh-dug carrots (she keeps her beds under piles of hay and dug some last week during January thaw), which were lightly steamed and nice and sweet. Thank you Robin! For dessert, I sliced up the remaining Grimes Golden apples, tossed them with a bit of maple syrup and baked until soft. We enjoyed them with a creme anglaise sauce…really no more than a custard. I read once that a jar of custard in the frig is oh so handy..and yes it is. Custard on cake, custard on blueberries, custard on peaches….

Cooked up 5 pounds of cranberries from the freezer and canned 6 quarts of cranberry juice. Finished my seed order from Johnny’s and Kitchen Garden Seeds.

For supper, browned 2 rabbit legs in a bit of bacon fat, covered with Veggie Tomato sauce and baked, served over pasta PMM had made the day before. We do live well!

House warm and bellies full, I whipped PMM at our evening game of cribbage!