Learn how to cook on the homestead with our kitchen tips, tricks and recipes. Food preservation is really easy once you get the hang of it, too!
What Does Bad Tomato Sauce Really Taste Like?
Cooking and Food / Tom Marlowe
We’ve all been there. You’re making your favorite pasta dish and you go to grab your batch of homemade tomato sauce or your favorite store-bought stuff, only to find that it’s expired or just too old. You give it a sniff and it smells okay, and it looks normal, but that won’t really tell you […]
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28 Ways to Save Money on Milk
Cooking and Food / Greg Seebregts
Milk is high in calcium and other things that keep our bones strong and healthy; it’s also a favorite drink of sorts for many – Milo, anyone? A milkshake, perhaps? For all its popularity, milk has been getting steadily more expensive over the past few months and that got me thinking, how can we save
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Cast Iron Care: It Will Last You a Lifetime!
Cooking and Food / Tom Marlowe
Cast iron cookware is here to stay. Whether you love it or hate it, and I hope you love it, more than any other this is one kind of cookware that has withstood the test of time. The “black iron” has been with us for centuries, and I hope it will be with us for
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Off The Grid Cooking 40 Ways to Do It
Cooking and Food / Di-Anne Seebregts
Many third-world country inhabitants have never been required to prepare a meal without a gas or electric stove. But for centuries, people have been baking bread, preparing fish, making jerky, cooking meat, and even making pizzas without electricity. As a keen outdoors woman/hiker/climber/canoeist/horse trail rider, I have often had to do without electricity for weeks
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So, How Many Grains are There in a Pound?
Cooking and Food / Tom Marlowe
The grain has been a unit of measurement for centuries, and its history can be traced back to the Bronze Age, at least. Seldom used in daily affairs today, probably the only place you have seen this archaic unit of measurement used is in the weighing of bullets and arrows. How can we put the
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What is the Actual Shelf Life of a Clif Bar?
Cooking and Food / Di-Anne Seebregts
If you are into an active life; running, hiking, cycling, or any other sport, you burn calories fast and need energy fast. Clif bars are designed to fuel your muscles for exercise that lasts for an hour or more. They should ideally be consumed 2 to 3 hours before you begin your exercise. They are
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Farm Versus Store Bought Eggs: What Are the Differences?
Cooking and Food / Jeanie Beales
The idea of being able to go out to your hen house and collect some fresh eggs for breakfast, or buy pasture raised eggs at a farmers’ market, is appealing. But is there really a difference in the color, taste and nutritional content, or are we just happy to think that because they are fresh
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How to IMMEDIATELY Stop A Hot Pepper Burn
Cooking and Food / Di-Anne Seebregts
Peppers… we’ve all done it. For most of us, that time when we did it, we swear, will never happen again! Once was enough, we learned our lesson. However, some bonkers people just have to come back and do it again and again and again. My brother and my son are two such people. Growing
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So, Do Ramen Noodles Ever Expire?
Cooking and Food / Di-Anne Seebregts
Ramen noodles, also called instant noodles, are a popular food source for everyone including sportsmen and women, teenagers, preppers, college students, outdoorsmen, and homesteaders looking for a food with a very long shelf life. Do Ramen noodles expire? The simple answer is yes, they do expire and may go bad. They will typically last 8
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Question: Why Is My Maple Syrup Cloudy?
Cooking and Food / Greg Seebregts
I have a question for you: have you ever wondered why maple syrup sometimes goes cloudy? Well, that’s what we’re looking at today as we answer the question: why is my maple syrup cloudy? There are a few reasons that your maple syrup could be cloudy. One reason would be inadequate filtration; another could be
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