How’s everyone doing?
We got in a LOT of peppers, and while looking around for recipes I found Supercook!
With this site, you put in what you have in your house right now (it gives suggestions that you can just click on — I think the only thing I actually typed was “peppers”), and it searches for [...]
This is the best video series! Clara is 91 and demonstrates Depression-era cooking. Here’s episode 1, Pasta and Peas, which looks pretty good!
I decided to try the recipe from the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day site.
I think I put in too much water; this is more like The Blob than what the videos show.
I’m using my pizza stone to set it on. I guess we’ll just have to see how it turns out!
Well, let’s see….
Harvested some lettuce and carrots.
Shucked more sunflower heads (making a dent in the pile in the bowl on my kitchen counter).
As far as ‘preps’, I’ve been working on a sturdy base for my 300 gal. water barrel, and between my husband and I, we’ve worked out a plan to get the thing not [...]
[Note from RSG: this was posted on the SharonFoodStorage yahoo group by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. I have edited this for formatting and to remove anything that would identify the author.]
Here is the second part of the Plan written by Ms. Mouse – please remember that Ms. Mouse has no time for questions, [...]
Dinner was fried local ham, local apples and local butternut squash (I cheated and cooked them in the microwave), and homemade cornbread (with cornmeal from Kansas, so that’s regional). Simply delicious.
Planted: more garlic. I just got in a dwarf Orinoco Banana plant, which is supposed to be hardy to zone 7. So I potted it [...]
You can’t. Do it all.
I’ve talked to a lot of people who say, “well, I can’t do [insert whatever thing they're worried about here], so why bother doing anything?”
You can’t do everything yourself. That’s why we have towns, instead of everyone living on their own back 40. Even the pioneers went into town to get [...]
AKA using what God gave you.
We throw away wayyyy too much stuff here in America, and the time will come when that isn’t an option anymore, whether through financial tightening, lack of supply, or lack of landfill space. Part of being self-reliant/independent is managing the things you have so you aren’t being wasteful.
I [...]
I got a lot done today so far: planted two tomato plants, repotted a grapevine until I can plant it and an olive tree that will stay in pots (too cold in the winter for it), cleaned out a bunny bin and composted the litter, and for the finale, I made peach lemonade and peach [...]
It’s been hot and humid here this week, rained twice, with some golf-ball sized hail the other night. Fortunately nothing got damaged. I’ve been under the weather (still not feeling all that well today), which is why I haven’t been posting.
My plants all seem smaller than usual for this time of year, I’m not sure [...]
Finally got some rain last night, and all but one of my rainbarrels is full.
Yesterday we had friends over for a BBQ, plenty of local meat and a good time. Today we had lots of leftovers.
Planted two tomatoes and a watermelon, harvested a lot more peas, put some local hydroponic tomatoes from the co-op in [...]
Yesterday was busy again… well, today was, too.
Harvested a lot of snow peapods. I have a quart bag full in the freezer now. I also am getting a collection of peas drying for seed for the fall.
The cutworm-eaten tomato tops haven’t survived. At least I started a lot of them.
Went shopping and found the material [...]
My food dehydrator came in today, but it’s still sitting in the box in the front hallway.
I’m not feeling well so I haven’t done much other than pick peas and bring Leon out to run around.
Oh, and I did wash a few dishes, but I didn’t compost the water. The ground is still squishy wet [...]
Member of these Webrings: