Make jam from frozen fruit all year round! You can freeze the harvest when you don't have time to process jam and jelly, then make your preserves later. Or make jam from storebought frozen fruit!
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Top Ten Uses for Whey
My Top Ten Uses for Sour Whey If you’ve ever tried making your own Queso Fresco, Cottage Cheese, or Ricotta Cheese from fresh milk, you know that there is a lot of whey left over. These cheeses are made by heating the milk and adding vinegar, which is why this…
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Dark Chocolate Cake
Who Doesn’t Love Chocolate Cake?! I make this dark chocolate cake for my husband because he’s a huge dark chocolate fan. He’s also a fan of healthy foods, so I try to make our desserts as guilt-free as I can. Usually. I used mostly organic ingredients (including Organic Fair…
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Scrambled Duck Eggs That Don’t Taste Like Duck Eggs!
Scrambled Duck Eggs with Milder Flavor For the first time since I was a kid, I’m eating duck eggs! I ordered Pekin ducklings this spring and now have 5 ducks and 1 drake. We usually get 5 duck eggs a day and they are starting to pile up in the…
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Pumpkin Cranberry Muffin Recipe
These pumpkin cranberry muffins are delicious in fall, or any time! They are lightly sweet and wonderful with dried cranberries.
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How to Forage for and Use Wild Apples
Can You Forage for and Use Wild Apples? Have you ever seen an abandoned apple tree with fruit and wondered if they are edible? The short answer is yes, they should be safe to eat. I’ve been using wild apples as a food source since I was a kid and…
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Making Applesauce from Wild Apples
How to Make Applesauce with Wild Apples If you have an abundance of wild apples available, check out my post How to Use Wild Apples for more ideas on how to use them. I’ve been busy for the last few days turning a feed bag full of wild apples into…
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French Toast Made with Duck Eggs
The Best French Toast I’ve Ever Made Duck eggs make the most wonderful French toast! It has a rich, custard flavor and is so creamy and delicious, you’ll have trouble stopping after two (or three or four) slices! Now that I have duck eggs every day, I’ve been working on…
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How to Use Duck Eggs
Duck Eggs vs Chicken Eggs If you’ve never had access to duck eggs, you might be wondering how different they can be from chicken eggs. Some differences will depend on the breed of duck that laid the egg. An egg from a Muscovy will be somewhat different from a Pekin…
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Homemade Applesauce Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
How to Make Applesauce Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting I recently came across a ‘windfall’ of unwanted apples and make a big batch of applesauce. I canned most of it, froze some when I got tired of canning, dehydrated apple slices, and put the rest in the refrigerator to use…
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Canning Grape Juice and Jelly
Concord Grapes! Our friends Rich and Terri live just beyond the Cheddar Curtain (aka the Wisconsin border), about a block from Lake Michigan. They have a wonderful property almost completely surrounded by native prairie and the growing conditions are amazing! Their garden is protected from our super hot Midwest summers…
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Can You Save Money on Chicken Feed?
Can I Raise My Own Chicken Feed? This is a question I’ve asked myself frequently since I started keeping chickens. I really didn’t like buying the conventionally grown feed, knowing that it was likely filled with GMO grain raised with pesticides. When I decided to switch to organic chicken feed…
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Freezing Tomatoes
Save Your Extra Tomatoes for Later! Who doesn’t love a fresh ripe tomato, right off the vine?! Well, I sure do. Our family has been enjoying Pink Oxheart tomatoes this summer. But I can only eat so many tomatoes in season. I always plant extras so I’ll have some to…
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How to Freeze Mixed Vegetables
Freezing Your Own Homegrown Veggies It isn’t difficult to freeze mixed vegetables! If you can freeze the produce from your garden, you can mix it up and preserve combinations of veggies that are harvested at the same time. Growing your own fresh veggies for the summer table is a wonderful…
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Fresh Pack Garlic Dill Pickles Recipe
These garlic dill pickles have a zesty garlic flavor that is delicious on sandwiches or burgers. They are canned for pantry storage for the winter.
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How to Get More Eggs from Your Laying Hens
Get More Eggs from Your Hens! Keeping a backyard chicken flock productive is important to most chicken owners. Get the best ‘bang for your cluck’ by following my suggestions for how to get more eggs from your laying hens! Some folks don’t care how many eggs their hens are laying…