Tip on Tuesday
This is my daughters favorite granola recipe. Try adding new things that your family will enjoy like different dried fruits, or chocolate chips for a special treat.
Tip on Tuesday
A treat for everyone. Easy on the budget, great for a quick treat, and a good recipe to have in your self-sufficient/preparedness arsenal.
Dehydrated Rose Hips
There
are many culinary uses for rose hips. They can be used fresh, dried, or
preserved. Rose hips can be used in apple sauce, soups and stews,
syrups, puddings, marmalade, tarts, breads, and pie, or made into a jam
or jelly.
Snowed In
Posted by Pam on 2/20/2011
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When you’re snowed in…the garden is under four feet of snow…the holidays are over…It’s time to quilt!!!
Making Jerky: Part 3
Look folks, we've a clear choice here before us. It's either hand over the big bucks to that heartless fake Billy Bob guy at "Food Inc." for your jerky or make the stuff on your own. My vote? See instructions above, or at least consult some recipes from someone competent and then make it on your own. Regardless, "Just do it!" "Surprise yourself!" "Amaze your friends!"
Now go jerk some meat!
Making Jerky: Part 2
After you have accomplished all the steps outlined so far, grab your dehydrator and place it on the counter. Remember to plug it in and then turn the switch to "On." Remove the bowl of marinated meat from the fridge and then deftly lay out each strip of meat on the trays, leaving enough room between them for proper air circulation.
Dehydrate until they are dehydrated, but not to the point of being dessicated. None of that "The Mummy Returns" stuff here. Avoiding that means you will have to check them every now and again, rotating the trays as necessary. Sample as needed when they look about done.
Making Jerky: Part 1
Jerky is actually the end result of the most primitive methods of meat preservation ever used by human beings, so why not give it a try? And why pay thirty bucks a pound for something you can make at home for maybe a tenth of the cost?
An average roast will do just fine, and believe it or not, making it from regular old hamburger is a doable thing as well.
Homemade Bread
As I was making bread the other day, I thought about my first few batches and how difficult this brand new world seemed to be.
Busy Fall
We can't grow our own grain here, but it was always rewarding to grind our own grain for the bread and other pastries.
Zucchini Relish
This is one of my most prized recipes, made every Fall and often requested by all who try it.
Book Review
It's been a while since I (and many other stores) was able to keep up selling books, since Amazon pretty much has the entire book market in the bag. But I wanted to share with you one of my very most favorite books.
Grain Grinders
The ability to grind grain is a necessity in a long-term food storage program.
Pressure Canners
Posted by Pam on 10/13/2010
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Pressure canning is a safe and economical method of preserving low acid foods which has been used for decades, especially by home gardeners and others interested in providing food storage for their families where quality control of the food is in one's own hands.
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