by Jessica | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Fermenting & Cheesemaking, Food Preservation, Our Kitchen, Recipes
Kombucha is everywhere you turn, from high-end restaurants and grocery stores to quick in and out gas stations. If you are not familiar with kombucha, it is a probiotic-rich, fermented tea drink with a fizzy vinegary tang. It is largely classified as a...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Food Preservation, Our Kitchen, Recipes, Smoking & Curing
Every year, mid-June, my husband and I go to the town of Chitina, Alaska to dip net salmon in the Copper River. This trip supplies our family with salmon for well over a year. Legal residents of Alaska with a fishing permit are allowed to catch up to 25 salmon per...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | Daily Life, DIY Homesteading, Our Kitchen
I grew up using cast iron pans. For some reason at our house, we didn’t have anything else but cast iron, no non-stick, aluminum or copper for us. So to me, they are what you cook with. Perfectly normal, and I think they are wonderful. I cook everything in...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Our Kitchen, Recipes
One of my cooking goals in life, yes I have cooking goals, is to make excellent biscuits. I found that the easiest way to acquire good recipes is to eat other people’s cooking and if you like it, ask for the recipe. People never say no. I attained this recipe...
by April | Last Updated: Jul 1, 2020 | DIY Homesteading, Food Preservation, Smoking & Curing
I am a big fan of smoked foods and I have never found a food that didn’t taste better with a little smoke added! At first, I found it very intimidating to start smoking my own food, and then it turned out to be very easy because you don’t need fancy...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Canning & Pickling, Our Kitchen, Recipes
Bone broth can be from any animal, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, lamb, beef, moose and on and on. If you don’t raise your own animals or hunt that’s okay because your local butcher shop will sell them to you very cheaply. Making a good bone broth is a...
