Self Reliance On A Small Homestead
Making Brine-Cured Dilly Beans My Mom cans a batch of delicious Dilly Beans every year and my family loves them. I think I like them better than canned dill pickles, to be honest. While we really enjoy the canned recipe, I’ve started making brine-cured dilly beans from my own fresh…
Sounds decadent, right? Well, I ‘healthied’ it up for you and made this with whole grains and a real dairy pudding from scratch. I started out by using the Muffin Mix I’ve posted about umpteen times, then I used Homemade Chocolate Pudding in the middle. After you make the…
Chocolate! I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who doesn’t like chocolate in it’s many wondrous forms! We love chocolate in our house and you can read more about our chocolate preferences in my post 40 Pounds of Organic Fair Trade Chocolate! I like it plain, in cookies, sprinkled over ice cream,…
Old Fashioned Brown Bread I found a recipe for brown bread online that calls for more sour milk than my usual recipe, the one my Gram always made. I had a lot of sour milk to use up and decided to give this old-fashioned recipe a whirl. I’ll give you…
See also Sour Milk – Don’t Toss it Out! and Cottage Cheese Made from Sour Milk Ricotta Cheese I’ve seen a couple of posts about making ricotta cheese recently and it prompted me to try making my own! I love ricotta cheese in lasagna and I buy the organic kind when…
See also How to Cook with a Wood Stove and Locally Raised Beef Stretch that Roast! I love making multiple meals from one cut of meat. Recently I slow cooked a roast in the crockpot all day with a little bit of water and some seasonings. I added carrots about…
Culling the Flock and Butchering Old Hens Monday morning I butchered some of my old hens. The oldest hen in my flock was one of the unlucky ones. She was an Ameraucana from my very first flock of 10 purchased the summer we moved here (2010). She was about 3…
