scratch cooking

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

Cooking with home-canned pears [Preserved_pears_crumble_dessert_recipe.PNG]  Preparing the Pears Let’s get started:  1. Preheat the oven to 375 F 2. Butter (heavily) baking pan. I chose to use my large cast iron pan, to bake the pear crumble 3. I op

A ”this and that” soup from scratch [Homemade_Soup.PNG] You know that PEAR CRUMBLE that I made today? Well, rather than scrubbing out all the residue of the sweet batter in the pot, I just used it “as is” for my homemade soup.  I thought it would

Cooking like grandma means cooking from scratch [Cooking_from_scratch.PNG] My grandmother, the one that I knew, had a family of twelve to feed on a daily basis. And - she did it in the 1920’s and beyond. Just imagine that. Now, I don’t remember