by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Our Kitchen, Recipes, Smoking & Curing, Turkeys
Thanksgiving is coming up, my husband’s favorite holiday. In our family, I’m in charge of Thanksgiving Turkey from start to finish and since I’m in charge I say “Let’s smoke it”. I love smoked turkey so much I’m going to convince you to smoke your turkey...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Recipes
What to do with the beet stems? That is the question. The beets themselves, easy. Beet greens, no problem. I love to cook and eat them both. But my question has always been, ‘What do I do with the beet stems’? In the past I’ve composted the stems....
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Our Kitchen, Recipes
I love kale for many reasons. First, it’s really tasty. Two, I can easily grow a lot of it making me feel like a master gardener. Three, it’s very versatile in recipes; kale can be used in cold or hot salads, smoothies, broths or stocks, casseroles,...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Food Preservation, Recipes
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: Nov 15, 2024 | Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Food Preservation, Our Kitchen, Recipes
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: 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...
