Recipes that we use around the home. Making delicious homemade food that we have grown ourselves. Healthy and wholesome cooking and baking with real ingredients.
Cabbage soup is a great soup to make any time of the year. Every autumn, after harvesting cabbage from the garden or receiving cabbage from family, I make a large pot of cabbage soup. It stores well if preserved properly. This soup cans and freezes easily. It will stay fresh in the fridge for a …
Whether you have a surplus of raspberries, or just want to learn how to make raspberry juice, this delicious and simple recipe will be sure to please. It only contains three ingredients and is chock full of raspberry flavor. We planted raspberries on our homestead six years ago. I first planted thornless raspberries but had …
Almost every year, we head up to the Northwest Territories here in Canada to catch some gigantic northern pike. These northern pike recipes that I’m going to share today are tried and true recipes. They have been used with great success many times. Northern Pike is primarily a freshwater fish that can be found in …
Simple and delicious, this farmer sausage potato casserole can be made in your oven, but also in your instant pot or slow cooker. With basic ingredients, such as sausage, potatoes, cream, and corn, it makes a hearty meal that is sure to please. Serve with a side of sourdough Biscuits, and you have a meal …
Making mozzarella cheese with vinegar was my first attempt at cheese making and I am happy to say it was a success! I have wanted to make my own cheese for years. As with sourdough, I was extremely intimidated. The process seemed just much too complicated and scary. I even bought rennet once. Unfortunately, it …
So I’ve been making a lot of butter around here lately. We eat a lot of butter but what can I do with all that liquid from making butter? It’s too good to dump, but we don’t like it raw. There are only so many recipes that call for it, especially when you don’t want …
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Learning how to make butter from heavy cream in a mixer is a simple process that will serve you well. Long gone are the days of making your own homemade butter by shaking a quart jar. I’m sure it would work well, and you would probably have stronger arms for it, but I love the …
Nothing tastes better than homemade chicken noodle soup made from scratch on a chilly fall day. We hadn’t had the flu in our home for quite a while, so when it hit one Sunday morning, my appetite was gone. I felt better when I ate something, but I had no desire to drink or eat …
