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Healthy Snacks Options That are Great for Travel

Healthy Snacks Options That are Great for Travel

Finding shelf stable snacks for traveling that have good ingredients can sometimes be hard. Also eating enough protein while traveling can be troublesome too. I travel quite a bit so I’ve listed out my favorite healthier snack options below!  Meat sticks...

2024 Gift Guides – Him, Her, Homemaker, & Stocking Stuffers

2024 Gift Guides – Him, Her, Homemaker, & Stocking Stuffers

‘Tis the season for Christmas shopping. I love gift guides for sparking ideas. A majority of the links below are things I’ve used and loved! Some of them are things that are on my own Christmas list. And a few are recommendations from friends.  I try to keep my...

How to Water Glass Eggs

How to Water Glass Eggs

The water glass method of preserving eggs has been used by homesteaders since the 1800s! The process is simple. It uses clean eggs and submerges them into a solution of water and pickling lime to preserve them for up to 18 months without refrigeration!  Water glassing...

Recipes

How to Make Homemade Applesauce

How to Make Homemade Applesauce

How to Make Homemade Applesauce When I first started making applesauce I scoured the internet for a recipe for the exact amount of apples I had. Guess what I found… nothing! Everyone measures large quantities of things like apples differently - bushels, pounds, etc....

Wild Game (Moose) Breakfast Sausage Recipe

Wild Game (Moose) Breakfast Sausage Recipe

When we first started processing wild game, we had a goal to make it as delicious as possible. Wild game gets such a bad reputation for being an inferior meat to what’s in the grocery store. Or people think it tastes really gamey (which can be avoided)! Because we are...

Peach Baked Oatmeal

Peach Baked Oatmeal

This peach baked oatmeal is perfect for a weekend breakfast or for meal prep. It’s also a great recipe to bring to a postpartum or nursing mom. It re-heats very well. It’s the perfect warm bowl of breakfast for the fall and winter months.  I love this recipe...

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Food Preservation

Everything You Need to Know to Grow Garlic

Everything You Need to Know to Grow Garlic

Garlic is one of my favorite things to harvest. Probably because it takes 10 months to grow so the harvest is much anticipated. Garlic is also the first ingredient in most of the things I cook so why not grow it myself?!  Don’t let the growth time of 10 months...

Classic Basil Pesto Recipe

Classic Basil Pesto Recipe

Pesto is one of my favorite things to make every summer. There is just nothing quite like a fresh, classic basil pesto.  Whether you have your own garden and have a huge basil harvest or you buy basil at a local farmers market, this recipe is sure to...

Homemade Sour Rhubarb Candy

Homemade Sour Rhubarb Candy

Maybe you want to put a neglected massive rhubarb plant to good use. Or you bought rhubarb at the farmers market and you have no idea what to do with it. Whatever the case, you need to try this sour rhubarb candy!  It's sour, it's chewy, it’s only a couple...