Category: Recipes
Fermented Salsa with Green Tomatoes and Peppers Fermented Salsa is so easy and delicious! This is the perfect recipe for using up all those last garden odds and ends as the harvest season winds down and the first fall frost approaches. For us, that’s likely to be sometime[…]
Egg Preservation How we Save our Summer Eggs for Winter Despite the cold, wet, dreary days, we KNOW that spring is coming. Because ~ look! Eggs, eggs, and more eggs! The Winter Egg Famine As the daylight hours decrease in late fall, the number of eggs that[…]
Did you realize that a typical strawberry jam recipe calls for 4 cups of fruit and up to 8 CUPS OF SUGAR! !!! What!? That is not okay with me. I much prefer our honey sweetened strawberry freezer jam. It calls for just 1 cup of honey per[…]
For a thousand years or more “chicken soup” has been prescribed by grandmothers all over the world to treat illness. And for good reason! Chicken soup – or a bone broth made from the leftover bones – is highly immune-boosting, soothes and heals the gut, relieves joint pain,[…]
Nuts are full of life-giving vitamins and minerals, fiber, fats, and protein, but have you ever noticed that when you eat a few too many they can tend to sit very heavily in the stomach? (Read more about why traditional preparation of / soaking nuts, beans, and grains[…]
This recipe for a no-knead sourdough loaf is definitely a favorite! Because honestly, what could make a person happier than warm, crusty sourdough bread slathered in butter? Nothing. At all. In the whole wide world. Unless, of course, it were warm, crusty sourdough bread slathered in butter ~[…]
Making Sourdough Work for Your Real Life This post is about how I make sourdough work in my real-life kitchen ~ A simple guide to sourdough for real-life mamas. I am not a sourdough expert. At all. So, if you are looking for a post about how to[…]
Our Favorite Traditional Foods / Homestead Kitchen Resources Learning to prepare whole, traditional foods can be overwhelming, especially if you’re trying to keep to a budget and feed a growing family at the same time. That’s why I’ve created this list of my favorite homestead kitchen resources to[…]
Butchering Day Each year I look forward to butchering day with both anticipation and dread. We always do our very best to extend our prized Italian sausage until the next year’s butchering, but it’s not easy. Around here, we LOVE sausage and we tend to eat it all up[…]
Taco Night It’s the second best night of the week, at least at our house. Second only to Pizza Night, of course. It seems to me that most families have tacos on the menu frequently, if not weekly. And why not? It’s quick, easy, and pleases the whole[…]
We spend Wednesday afternoons with Grandma nearly every week, and often stop to play for the morning with friends on the way. It was just such a Wednesday morning when my dear friend Julie invited us to stay for lunch. She had extra eggs and some avocado… and[…]