by Jessica | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Canning & Pickling, Our Kitchen, Recipes
Pressure canning is a method used to preserve low acid foods such as vegetables and meat, beans and broth. Low acid foods need to be heated to at least 240° F in order to kill any Clostridium botulinum spores, what is commonly known as botulism, that thrive in a low...
by April | Last Updated: Nov 15, 2024 | Food Preservation, Our Kitchen, Recipes
I’m currently on a charcuterie meat kick. Why? Because sausages and smoked meats are really good to eat, and sausages especially are pretty easy and fun to make. Now I’m not going to lie, you need some specialty equipment to make sausage. You need a...
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: 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 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...
