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...
by Jessica | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Canning & Pickling, Our Kitchen, Recipes
This recipe is an old school dill pickle recipe, the pickles come out full of flavor and lightly effervescent. Fermenting pickles produces a much better pickle than hot water bath canning because the pickle is never cooked or heated it retains the crunchy texture of a...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Baking, Our Kitchen, Recipes
Homemade granola is actually very easy to make. I was intimidated at first to make it at home even though there are a lot of recipes out there claiming it works. I did a bit of research and combined a few recipes I found into this one. Unlike some of my other first...
