If you’re in search of some holiday dessert recipes for the festive and chilly season, you’ve come to the right place.From traditional classics, classics with a twist, and maybe some things you’ve …
How To Capture And Use Wild Yeast
I have a secret weapon in my kitchen. It makes my daily bread taste amazing (and far more digestible than anything store-bought). As long as I take care of the starter, this weapon is an endless …
20 Cozy Fall Soup Recipes to Try When the Weather Gets Cool
There is just something about the crisp air of autumn that brings out a desire for a delicious hot fall soup. Butternut squash is ripe and abundant, pumpkins are in their prime, and so many other …
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Make Your Own Delicious Sourdough English Muffins
There are many things in this strange world with names that don’t suit them. Jerusalem artichokes are actually a sunflower. The peacock mantis shrimp is neither peacock, mantis, nor shrimp. The …
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How to Make Olive Oil
Olive oil has been an important food source, lamp fuel, religious material, cosmetic, and medicine for thousands of years.More than just a salad topping, olives join wheat and grapes as the core …
18 Robust Rabbit Recipes
Rabbit meat is tender and lean. It is one of the healthier meats out there, containing a lot of protein in a few ounces of meat.If you’re searching for new rabbit recipes, you’ve come to the right …
How to Turn a Single Chicken Into 5 Delicious Homegrown Meals
For many a homesteader, putting meat on the dinner table is not a simple, thoughtless endeavor. Meat is precious.The chicken we roast for an evening meal isn’t just a random chunk of flesh from …
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20+ Delectable Pioneer Woman Recipes
Whether you're new to cooking or consider yourself to be an advanced at-home chef, we can all benefit from a new recipe or two. Even if you have tried and true recipes you always turn to, one of the …
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How To Make Easy Blackberry Wine
Midsummer comes over the horizon, and with it comes humidity, mosquitoes, firefly nights, and hard work in the garden. But one of my favorite summer arrivals is wild in nature, both delicious and …
21 Comforting and Irresistible Summer Squash Recipes
Summer is here and with it has come an abundance of summer squash varieties. It is pretty common to see yellow squash and the common zucchini squash in produce stands throughout the colder months. But …
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25 Delicious Plum Recipes
Plums are underappreciated members of the fruit world -- probably because they have a bad reputation in their dried form. Prunes have a laxative effect, and people rarely turn to prune juice over …
17 Delicious French Macaron Recipes
First baked in Italy during the Renaissance, the macaron, now known as the French macaron, was introduced in 1533 by a noblewoman from Florence, Catherine de Medici, who later married Henri II, the …
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3 Easy Stock Recipes For Your Slow Cooker
Stock is a hearty, flavorful liquid that's as good as gold in your kitchen. It works wonders in rice or quinoa for extra flavor or can serve as the whole base for your stews and soups. Vegetables, …
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13 Healthy Cake Recipes
Birthday cakes, wedding cakes, just-because-you're-craving-it cakes. Who doesn’t love cake? In most households, cake is a food of celebration that brings family and friends together. But when one …
20 Delicious Green Tomato Recipes You Should Try
Do you know the two different types of green tomatoes? There are traditional green tomatoes (that are usually an heirloom plant) in addition to un-ripened, red tomatoes. Both are delicious and can be …
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30 Easy Road Trip Foods
While road trips are great fun, they can also be stressful journeys if you fail to plan in advance. Aside from making sure you have everything you need once you reach your destination, you should also …
15 Canned Chicken Recipes
Affordable, delicious, convenient, and easy to stack and store, canned chicken is a staple in my pantry. As a high protein, gluten-free, low-calorie snack, canned chicken is a guilt-free meat treat. …
30 Meal Prep Dinner Ideas
Although it’s a big responsibility, I absolutely love meal planning. I have a meal planning notebook that helps me outline meals for the week and a spreadsheet where I keep a running list of favorite …
27 Cheap Lunch Ideas
Whether you have a 9 to 5 job in an office or you’re someone who works from home, your stomach will inevitably start to grumble around midday.As a freelancer, I usually start to get hungry around …
15 Sous Vide Recipes
Translating to "under vacuum" in French, sous vide is a process where food is vacuum-sealed in a bag and cooked at a precise temperature in a water bath. There are a few different reasons people chose …
How To Make Flour
One of my favorite college coffeehouses was across the street from a milling company. I spent many hours sketching and sipping their various brews, the mood-lit ambiance of the cafe constantly …
17 Great Depression Era Recipes
Nowadays, with the never-ending supply of cookbooks online and in bookstores, and the family recipes your parents passed down, there's an exhaustive supply of meal ideas. And with modern technology …
10 Delectable Duck Egg Recipes
Duck eggs, a favored delicacy in China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines are quickly gaining popularity in the United States. If you've never tried them, duck eggs are richer, contain larger …
How To Make Irish Soda Bread
Irish soda bread traditionally contains only four ingredients: flour, salt, buttermilk, and baking soda. Purists would say that anything beyond these four essentials makes an entirely different …
25 Delicious Sourdough Recipes For Your Home Starter
Sourdough starters used for baking have been around since the cultivation of edible grasses began thousands of years ago. People have been creating healthful and delicious breads of an astounding …
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20 Dutch Oven Camping Recipes for Your Next Outdoor Adventure
I’ve always loved camping, and one of my favorite parts is the outdoor cooking experience. Food cooked over a campfire is something you just can’t replicate at home in your kitchen.A lot of times, …
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20 Smoker Recipes
Heat, air, and smoke. There’s something almost primal about the satisfying taste experience of eating food infused with the flavor of wood smoke. As Chef Ben Vaughn says of smoking, “it only takes a …
How To Make Soothing Cherry Honey Cough Drops
It's cold and flu season and that means one of two things. It's either time to stock up on cough drops OR it's time to make your own at home! It seems like I never have cough drops on hand when I need …
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Homemade Vinegar
Vinegar: Making it is easier than you think.In its simplest form, vinegar is alcohol that has been diluted and fermented. You can use fruit juice, fruit scraps, wine, or beer. If given the chance …
How To Make Butter
There’s nothing more delectable than a smear of creamy, fresh butter on warm bread.Whether you’re baking French pastries, sautéing green beans, or serving hot popcorn, you’ll want butter within …
Homesteading Stories: Maple Sugaring
There are a lot of different types of maple trees – at least 128 species. Some grow better than others. Some are a harder wood, making them ideal for use on bowling alley floors, while others are …
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Cabbage Vs. Lettuce: Important Differences You Need To Know
Ever wonder about the differences between cabbage vs. lettuce? Which is more nutritional? Tastier? Easier to grow? Easier to store? In this cabbage vs. lettuce debate, you no longer need to …
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12 Delicious Vegan Pasta Sauces without Tomatoes
Whether you're allergic to tomatoes, don't like the flavor of tomatoes, or want to reduce your intake of nightshades (the botanical family that includes eggplant, peppers, and white potatoes), this …
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Make Your Own Homemade Tea Blends With These 8 Recipes
Homemade tea blends can be very simple or more complicated, and you can customize your recipes to suit your own tastes. These are some of our favorite hand-crafted tea ideas to stock your …
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Cooking for Two: 20 Healthy Recipes for Two People
Have you noticed that most recipes make enough food to feed an army? Here are 20 recipes to make cooking for two easy and healthy.We’ve gathered 20 healthy recipes for two people that nourish the …
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Josey Baker’s Scrumptious Gluten-Free Bread Recipe
This incredibly delicious, yet incredibly healthy, gluten-free bread recipe comes from Josey Baker Bread, the fun, new eponymous cookbook from the charming San Francisco–bread maker. With thirty-eight …
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Vegan Athletics: The PCRM VegRun Program
The folks at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) launched a plant-based running program, and they offered me a free account to try it out. I jumped at the change to prove that vegan …
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October Unprocessed: Unsweetened Crock Pot Applesauce
When I first learned about October Unprocessed, the question that immediately came to mind is: what defines processed food? This crock pot applesauce recipe contains no refined or added sugars and …
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10 Killer Quinoa Salad Recipes
There's nothing like a good quinoa salad... it's filling, refreshing, and makes you feel awesome knowing the goodness you just put in your body.Quinoa (pronounced keen-wa) cooks like a grain, but …
7 Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Alternatives
Do you love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches too much? Think you need a break from them or need to change it up a bit?Here are 7 (tested) alternatives to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich you …
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Some More Vegan and Vegetarian Dishes for a Barbecue or Picnic
Here are two more vegetarian or vegan dishes and a drink you can bring to a barbecue to go with the homemade vegan black bean burgers and herbal butter we wrote about yesterday.Especially …
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