Hunting for meat is one of the most important things we do as homesteaders. Bear is a hardy red meat that can be used in any recipe you’d normally use for beef. Cooking bear meat has a learning curve but in general is a lot like cooking beef. I’ll be…
Bear Stew Recipe (Works well with beef or other red meats.) Bear hunting season’s work started last Saturday. I’ll be writing about what we do with the bears, why we do it, and how we use the meat. I want to be sure you all understand that we use the…
Garlic Scape Pesto Recipe Garlic scape pesto is my current go-to food when I want a snack. I can eat this stuff like candy. It’s healthy, filling and satisfy, and it’s so good I have a hard time resisting. If there’s garlic scape pesto in the fridge I’m going to…
Blueberry Rhubarb Crumble Blueberry Rhubarb Crumble is one of my favorite mid-summer desserts…and breakfasts. Okay, maybe lunch and a lake night snack too. Wild blueberries are ripening while the late season rhubarb is still going. The flavor is more intense than the traditional strawberry rhubarb combination so you might want…
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Intimidated by sour dough bread? Don’t be. It’s simple. You don’t have to make a round artisan loaf of dark, crusty, chewy bread filled with air pockets, baked in 500° wood fired oven to make sour dough bread. Let’s make a simple loaf of sour dough pesto bread that will…
Lemon Balm Sugar Cookies Until this spring my love of sugar cookies was satisfied only in Christmas. I love a good cookie or two with a cup of tea or coffee, even in summer when it’s hot. The lemon balm is growing like crazy in the kitchen herb garden, so…
Paleo Muffin Recipe I’ve been cooking with a lot of eggs lately thanks to 13 highly productive ducks, and remembered this paleo muffin recipe. I like it with blueberries as well as apples. If I use apples I trade the cinnamon for apple pie spice. Paleo Muffin Recipe 1 cup…
Pickled Venison Heart Never did I imagine pickled venison heart would be the number one entry in the old blog. Number one. It has 50% more page views than the second place post. It’s one of the posts that must be moved here. Hunting is one of the methods used…
Swedish Meatballs In my early adulthood, while we were terribly busy running the rat race, I discovered frozen Swedish meatballs. Slip those delicious, or so I thought at the time, meatballs into microwave, wait impatiently for three minutes and ding! Supper time! It wasn’t until we left our jobs to…
