The Best Apple Butter Cinnamon Rolls
You’re going to love the Best Apple Butter Cinnamon Rolls. The combination of cinnamon rolls and apple butter is perfect for a crisp fall day or any time of the year.
2022 Preserving Challenge- Fill Up Your Pantry This Year
2022 Preserving Challenge Preserving food is much more than just canning. It includes freezing, dehydrating, pickling, root cellaring, and more. Anything that you can do to store food for your family counts as preserving! That is what this challenge is about. Preserving food! It doesn’t matter if you are a novice or an expert…
How to Tap Maple Trees & Collect the Sap
This is Part 3 of our Maple Syrup Series: How to Tap Maple Trees & Collect the Sap. In this post, we will show you how to tap your maple trees with an instructional video, discuss why it is important to have a tapping and collecting game plan, and show you how we collect…
Put ’em Up Challenge- Increase Your Canning & Preserving Today
Preserving food is much more than just canning. It includes freezing, dehydrating, pickling, root cellaring, and more. Anything that you can do to store food for your family counts as preserving! That is what this challenge is about. Preserving food! Now that I have settled that, let’s get on with the 2020 Put “em…
2019 Preserving Totals, Tips and Top 10 Pantry Staples
Progress is not always defined by a number. That is what I am reminding myself this year with our preserving. In the past, we had more jars canned and more things froze. We made bigger batches, we spent more time, we stressed more, and stayed up to the wee hours of the morning finishing…
Perfect Pesto Recipe
Fresh pesto is one of our most celebrated summer meals! Especially, homemade pesto! We grow rows of basil, so that we can store pesto for the entire year. If that doesn’t speak volumes for how much we love our pesto, I don’t know what does. The first year we moved to our farmhouse, the…
Quickstart guide to canning
Welcome to the Quickstart Guide to Canning! In this post I would like to provide a crash course on canning. I do not want to complicate the process any more than it has to be. My desire is that this will be a tool that will give a beginner the knowledge to begin…
Orange Marmalade Recipe
Orange Marmalade Recipe Orange Marmalade is a great addition to any pantry! Not only is this recipe beautiful and delicious, but it can turn any breakfast toast into a special treat and it makes a great gift that you can hand out on the fly. Or you may just be itching to preserve something…
Homesteader Christmas Ideas- Kitchen Edition
Homesteader Christmas Ideas For The Kitchen It is my favorite time of year! Christmas time! I love almost everything about it; I love celebrating the birth of Christ, decorating the tree, Christmas lights everywhere, festive shopping, and cookies! I also love to read Christmas Gift Guides. I know that it may make me…
Canning…. the great mystery.
Well, it may have all started with tomatoes, but you have to do something with all those tomatoes. There are only so many salads and BLT’s you can eat. When we started our first garden I don’t think we really had any idea what we were going to do with what we grew. You…
