How to Save Money on Eggs With prices on the rise, you might be wondering how to save money on eggs. You might even be wondering if it’s worthwhile to get laying hens for your own farm-fresh eggs. For some people, a few chickens might be a great way to…
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How to Make Old Fashioned Bread Pudding
Make your own bread pudding from scratch with this simple recipe that saves money and tastes delicious! Great for breakfast or dessert.
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How to Make Quiche with a Super Easy Crust
Quiche with a Super Easy Crust! Who doesn’t love a delicious quiche with fresh veggies and cheese? It’s one of my favorite meals to eat … but making it? Not so much. Traditional quiche recipes just take too long for this busy homesteader. However, I’ve come up with my very…
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Butternut Custard Recipe
This easy butternut custard recipe is a delicious way to eat your veggies! Uses whole food ingredients and bake in a 9 x 13" pan or in 2 pie shells. Yum!
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Zucchini Fritter Recipe – Super Easy!
This Zucchini Fritter Recipe is so versatile, you can have if for any meal of the day, with sweet or savory seasonings. Put the extra zucchinis to good use!
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Egg Recall & Egg Safety Tips
Egg Recall 2018 & Egg Safety Tips Have you been affected by the latest egg recall? Are you concerned about the safety of your food? I am! Food safety is something I think about a lot. Since a lot of our food comes from my garden or barn, I’m very aware…
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Color Your Easter Eggs Without a Kit
Don't have a kit for coloring your Easter eggs? No problem! You can color your Easter eggs without a kit using these items from your kitchen!
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Too Many Duck Eggs!
Too Many Duck Eggs! It’s either feast or famine around here. Until recently I had NO duck eggs. However my four young duck hens are in full production now and I’m getting a lovely egg from each of them, every day now. I hatched two Pekin ducklings at the…
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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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How to Make Egg Noodles
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Check out my post on What to do With Extra Eggs. Homemade Egg Noodles If you’ve never made your own egg noodles, you don’t know what you’re missing! I don’t make my own pasta very often, since it is pretty inexpensive at the store. However,…
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How to Make Raw Eggnog
Homemade Raw Milk Eggnog I love eggnog. This time of year there are plenty of choices for eggnog lovers at the grocery store. But I’ve noticed that most eggnog is just too rich for my tastes these days. So now I make my own from low-fat milk from the grocery…
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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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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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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…