Over 100 made from scratch recipes ranging from old fashioned baked goods and meals to modern recipes featuring less sugar and gluten free options.
We also have recipes and tips for home food preservation. Methods include canning, dehydrating, freeze drying, infusions, ferments, homemade wines and more.
If you’ve tried the 30 minute mozzarella cheese and the fromage blanc cheese (or even if you haven’t) and would like to tackle a slightly more challenging cheese recipe, then you may be ready to to learn how to make cottage cheese. Homemade cottage cheese can be ready for eating fresh or using in recipes…
If you happen to raise ground cherries, you may end up finding yourself swamped with an excess of the little fruits. Lemon ground cherry jelly will help you use up a LOT of ground cherries in a hurry. The lemon cuts the sweetness of the ground cherries, and my family prefers a jelly over a jam…
Last week I got a call from my neighbor, Betty, about crabapples being ripe at another friends’ home. (Everyone should have a neighbor like Betty. Never one to let produce go to waste, I warned the boys that we were going to go pick crabapples. My eldest, wanting to get done sooner, headed out to…
Homemade deodorant recipes are a great alternative to standard deodorants. Regular deodorants can be pretty nasty. The aluminum and other chemicals in standard deodorant have been linked to breast cancer. Even the crystal deodorants (which I had been using recently) contain aluminum compounds. One study I saw recently indicated that the crystal deodorants may actually…
I was listening to the radio the other day, and the morning talk show hosts were going on about how to boil an egg. Since I’ve boiled several hundred eggs over my lifetime (possibly thousands – we used to boil an awful lot of eggs for the catering business when we made big batches of…