by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Recipes
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, 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: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, DIY Homesteading, Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Our Kitchen, Recipes
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: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Our Kitchen, Recipes
I’m a huge fan of sourdough bread. I’ve always wanted to figure out how to make it so I can eat it whenever I want. So I finally did. I’m going to share with you a very simple and quick way to make sourdough bread. This recipe has all the flavor but...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Our Kitchen, Recipes
It’s happened again. I waited to until the last minute to decide what to make for a Thanksgiving side dish. It’s very common in Fairbanks to have Thanksgiving with friends instead of families because many peoples’ family live so very far away. So...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Our Kitchen, Recipes, Smoking & Curing
I love smoked food, love it, smoked sausage, salmon, porter, jerky, chowders, pretty much anything. Usually, I like my food to kick me in the face with the smokiness of it, but sometimes subtlety has it’s advantages as well. Last spring, when Jessica was...
