by April | Last Updated: Dec 8, 2023 | Baking, Cooking, Fermenting & Cheesemaking
Now plain goat chevre is amazing; I can’t get enough of it. I’ve been making goat chevre for years and it is a staple in all of my cooking and baking. You can read about making it here if you like. I’ve also made goat milk yogurt regularly but cheese...
by April | Last Updated: Apr 12, 2021 | Baking, Daily Life, Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Food Preservation & Storage, Our Kitchen
It’s almost time to tap the birch trees again. Even though it was -20F in town as I wrote this, I know spring is almost here and the weather will start warming up during the day. This is our fourth year in a row tapping the trees around the yard and it has...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Baking, DIY Homesteading, Fermenting & Cheesemaking
I love sourdough bread. During the past year, I’ve been experimenting with ways to make a sourdough starter, not only start it but keep it alive. Here are nine ways to start and keep alive a sourdough starter. These methods are very easy and I bet you have at...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Food Preservation & Storage
Birch trees, like maple trees, produce sap that can be reduced down to make syrup. Awesome, right, but also very time consuming and fuel-intensive. Lucky for everyone who might be busy, birch sap has many other uses. One of my favorite ones I learned about this year...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Food Preservation & Storage
My kids are yogurt fiends! I’ve been feeding plain Nancy’s yogurt to the kids since they were little. As they got older I threw in my Homemade Maple Granola and fresh berries, apples, or bananas as well. Now my kids ask for yogurt every weekday morning and...
by April | Last Updated: Sep 9, 2018 | Fermenting & Cheesemaking
It’s the start of apple season, even up north here in Fairbanks. That means it’s the start of eating fresh apples and making homemade apple pies, applesauce, dried apples, apple cider, and apple cider vinegar. Fairbanks is a tough place to grow apples....