Ranch Wife's Slant

Cowboys, kids, and ranch life

Month: April 2011

  • Lookin’ At Life in Black and White

        Since the majority of our calves look like these, we tend to get excited whenever we get some black baldy and brockle-faced calves. For those who are unfamiliar with such terminology, a baldy is a white-faced (or to us, mostly white-faced) calf and a brockle-faced calf has black and white markings on its…

  • Everyday is Take-Your-Kids-to-Work Day for Ranch Kids

    (Technically this should be posted on Thursday, since April 28th is “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,” but since Tuesday is the day I post about all things family, I decided to stick with my schedule.) One of the things that my husband and I love about our two kids is their help….

  • Core Value #4: Entertain

    Entertain is the core value that I have the most fun with. Writing to entertain is the highlight of writing my column. Newspapers provide people with local, national, and world news; stock market reports, forecasts, classifieds, letters to the editor, and columnists. I seek to give readers something more entertaining than negative news or my…

  • Linda Hasselstrom and Windbreak House

    One of the things I enjoy most about being a ranch woman is learning from other women who share the same lifestyle, exchanging ranch stories, and finding similarities with them. It makes me feel connected with a culture, so-to-speak of other women that understand my lifestyle, its frustrations, problems, and the stresses that it doesn’t…

  • Bulk Spices: A Ranch Wife’s Lifesaver

    I do a lot of shopping locally but when I can, I take advantage of buying certain items in bulk because of the larger amounts which last longer since for me, going to the store isn’t five minutes away and I like getting more product for less money if it’s something my household will use….

  • Core Value #3: Delight

    Delight is one of my favorite of A Ranchwife’s Slant’s core values. Because the goal is to get readers to read my column, I feel that delighting them is the best way to get them to come back. People feel good when they read something that’s real, funny, or something that they can relate to….

  • More Cookie Dough Recipes

    Chunky Mocha Cookies 1 c. butter-flavored shortening ¾ c. sugar ½ c. packed brown sugar 2 eggs 2 T. milk 1 T. instant coffee granules 1 t. vanilla extract 2 1/3 c. all purpose flour 2 T. baking cocoa 1 t. baking soda ½ t. salt 1 c. chopped pecans 1 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips…

  • Cookie Dough Recipes

    Here are the cookie dough recipes I promised from Wednesday’s blog post. Feel free to bake the dough if you want.    Rosie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies 1c. butter or margarine, softened 1 ½ c. brown sugar, packed 1 t. vanilla 2 eggs 3 ¼ c. flour 1 t. baking soda 1 t. salt 2 c….

  • Brown Beauties

    Farm fresh eggs are hard to beat. Literally. The yolks of these brown beauties are so thick it takes work to whisk them. There is a huge difference between store bought and farm fresh eggs. I never paid much attention to eggs until we acquired laying hens and started getting our own eggs. The color…

  • The Best Cookies Ever

      The best cookies I have ever eaten have always been the uncooked ones. Usually when I bake cookies it isn’t because I feel like baking or want to have a gooey warm cookie from the oven with a glass of ice cold milk. It’s because I’m having an intense craving for cookie dough that…