by Tiffany | Nov 4, 2009 | Featured, Food, Garden, Homesteading Life
Because our neighbors have a huge potato farming operation, we have the opportunity to forage tons of potatoes for free. Ok, maybe not tons, but many, many pounds. More than we can carry at once and more than I’d like to think about having in my kitchen waiting...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Nov 3, 2009 | Featured, Food
Lately I haven’t been that great about meal planning. I’m a bit uninspired and just have so much going on that I often don’t feel much like cooking. Usually meal planning would help me eliminate this problem because it would just tell me what to cook without hassle....
by No Ordinary Homestead | Oct 20, 2009 | Featured, Food
I know it’s getting cold out and that usually means you don’t even want to think about eating ice cream…but this ice cream is a little bite of heaven, I swear. It is the most wonderfully creamy, rich chocolate ice cream I’ve ever eaten and the addition of little...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Oct 15, 2009 | Featured, Food, Garden, Homesteading Life
Although we didn’t have a huge harvest of pickling cucumbers (or even regular ones) this year, I did still manage to get a couple jars worth of pickles. I have always been a big fan of pickles of all sorts but a spicy, zesty pickle to eat with a hearty...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Oct 5, 2009 | Featured, Food
There’s many things you can do with fresh tomatoes from your garden. One of my favorites is just slapping a little mayo on two slices of bread and then throwing a huge slice or two of tomato on there. When they’re really good tomatoes, you don’t even need salt. I’ve...
by No Ordinary Homestead | Sep 24, 2009 | Featured, Food
We are big fans of sandwiches here, in all shapes and forms. Since I bought a bunch of frozen mahi-mahi fillets on sale a little while back, I figured we might as well start eating the things. We had some on salad once (from our garden of course) and they were great....