Homestead Recipes

When you don’t feel like cooking, open some jars of freezedried food. [Cooking_with_freezedried_and_garden_veg.PNG] After covering the Hoophouse with plastic, today, I just didn’t feel like having to cook something.  Making a Meal from Freeze-Dried

I was doing so well at organizing my blogs and then I forgot that I had set up one specifically for recipes!  My latest blog is a recipe for   >>> Ham Soup <<< Rather than talking about it twice, I’m going to send you over to the blog I posted this

Spruce up the green beans with freeze-dried ingredients [Meal_from_freeze_dried.jpg] From the Garden  Green beans have to be one of the best vegetables to grow in a homesteading garden because they keep on producing throughout the entire season! Ab

What to do with Swiss Chard when you don’t like it sautéed? [Garden_Swiss_chard_burrito.PNG] After lots of searching, I finally found a recipe for Swiss Chard that was not a sauté: using it as a wrap! Brilliant. The Contents  First, pressure cook

There’s nothing better than a slice of home made bread, fresh out of the oven and slathered with butter. What I love about this recipe is that there is a flexible resting period of from 10 minutes to 5 hours. This means that you can get it started

Lunch, today, had to be a simple one.  There is a muscle in my back that has decided to show me that something is out of sync and has been spasming BADLY. Actually, during the making of lunch, the one muscle “shout” moved across my entire lower back

Harvested Green Tomatoes - freezedry - tea. [Green_tomato_tea.PNG] From the Garden At the end of harvest season, before the frost hit, I harvested the last of my tomatoes when they were still green. I diced them up, using my KitchenAid food proces