This Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread is a great way to use your zucchini harvest and satisfy your chocolate cravings too! Easy recipe!
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Freezing 20 Pounds of Organic Peaches
Freezing Peaches This week I received my monthly order from my Azure Standard (#ad) buying club, including 20 pounds of organic peaches. There aren’t any organic peach growers locally, and since peaches are sprayed with a lot of pesticides, I was glad to find organic peaches in bulk. Since we…
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Too Many Zucchini?
Do You Have Too Many Zucchini? I have more zucchini than I need right now, although they were rather slow coming in this year. Now I’m busy making zucchini bread, zucchini cake, stuffed zucchini; and shredding and freezing them to use this winter. Are you feeling a little ovewhelmed by the…
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Summer Squash Pickles
Brine Cured Summer Squash Pickles I enjoy having extra produce from my garden all summer. It reduces our grocery bill, increases our nutrient intake, and tastes great…what a deal! Sometimes I have so many veggies ripening that we can’t use them up fast enough. Canning, dehydrating, and freezing are great…
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Using Summer’s Harvest
What Are You Harvesting? I love having an abundance of fresh veggies in the summer. There is such a sense of satisfaction when your entire meal is home raised! I hope you are harvesting lots of fresh food from your homestead too! My beans have mostly been munched to the…
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Canning & Freezing My Home Raised Turkeys
Preserving Our Turkeys for Winter I raised 10 Broad Breasted White turkeys this year and all of them survived to butcher size. Seven of the turkeys are processed so far, with 5 whole turkeys resting comfortably in our freezer. I double-bagged them to help prevent freezer burn and we will use them…
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Rhubarb Custard Pie Recipe
Rhubarb Custard Pie with Fresh Rhubarb Spring is such a wonderful time of year, with fresh foods starting to come in and the weather warming up! Rhubarb is a wonderful perenial vegetable that I love to harvest each spring for some delicious treats. This rhubarb custard pie is a yummy…
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Too Many Eggs?
Too Many Eggs in My Refrigerator It’s that time of year, when the hens are laying eggs in overdrive and I can’t seem to use them all up before the fridge is overrun. It’s not a ‘problem,’ really…it just means that we eat eggs every day. Is your…
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Sauteed Garlic Mustard Greens
Foraged Garlic Mustard Greens The first greens of spring are ready for the taking! Dandelions, garlic mustard, curly dock, horseradish leaves, and wild onions are green and growing. I’m trying to get a jump on the invasive garlic mustard in our yard, although I’m sure I’ll never eradicate it completely.…
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DIY Greek Yogurt
How to Make Greek Yogurt Ok, I’m seriously behind trends. Everyone has been blogging about Greek yogurt, except me. The biggest reason I’m behind on this trend is the price of Greek-style yogurt at the store. That, and the fact that I’m making my own yogurt. But I was…
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Homemade Honey~Lemon Cheese Spread
How to Make Honey~Lemon Cheese Spread When I made my first batch of Farmer’s Cheese recently, I ran into a little snafu. I couldn’t find my sieve to separate the lemon juice from the seeds and pulp (one of the fun parts of having my 19-year-old son put away the…
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How to Make Farmer’s Cheese
Easy to Make Farmer’s Cheese Whenever I find organic milk marked down at the grocery store, I buy as much as I can use for my own frugal homemade yogurt and quick cheeses. Easy homemade cheeses all follow a similar recipe and they taste great. This week (in 2015) 2% organic milk…
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Microwave Egg Scramble Makes an Easy Breakfast
Quick & Easy Scrambled Eggs Scrambled eggs aren’t a difficult or time-consuming dish to make, but sometimes there just isn’t time for them. When you need a quick, high-protein breakfast, try this super easy recipe for ‘scrambled eggs.’ Are your hens laying more eggs than you need? You might want to read…
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Frugal Milk, Cheese & Yogurt
Save on Frugal Milk and Dairy Products I started buying milk from the store again after I sold my goats… and I really miss their fresh milk but the cost of keeping goats wasn’t sustainable for my family. It was wonderful to make our own cheese, yogurt, kefir, and other…
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Butterscotch Sticky Buns
Butterscotch Sticky Buns Recipe I picked a cold and blustery day to create this new recipe. My son requested butterscotch bread…which begged for a sweet roll type of concoction. So here is my brand spanking new recipe for Butterscotch Sticky Buns. They won’t last long on our counter! You might be…
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How to Make Duck & Chicken Sausage Patties
Homemade Duck & Chicken Sausage The easiest way to make your own duck and chicken sausage would be to start with ground meat and just add seasonings. However, if you’re anything like me, you’ll do it the hard way and start by raising your own birds. I had some older…