As gardening season wraps up here at The Prairie Homestead, I always like to take stock of the lessons I learned this season and what I can improve for next year. I'm thrilled to be welcoming Tiffany from Don't Waste the Crumbs to the blog today as she shares some of her hard-learned lessons and tips! Last Christmas, my step-mom gave me one of the best gifts I've ever received: four big buckets, a pair of gloves, a watering can and a ...Continue Reading
Archives for September 2014
Chai Tea Concentrate Recipe
The cravings started earlier than normal this year... I'm blaming it on our cooler-than-normal summer, and our early snow (YES, it snowed two weeks ago... *facepalm*), but I'm already hankering for sweaters, and fires in the stove, and chai tea. Especially the chai. I'm kind of a picky chai drinker... The chai tea bags you can grab in the tea aisle don't quite cut it for me. And the pre-made concentrates are often filled with ...Continue Reading
How to Can Pears Without Sugar
I'm a lazy canner you guys... I adore canning and especially love surveying the pretty rows of brightly colored jars when I'm finished, but you can bet that if I can safely take a "shortcut," I will. Take my home-canned applesauce for example. The vast majority of applesauce recipes insist you peel the apples first. But if you're me, you simply quarter them, core them, and toss them in the pot, peels and all. (And if you have a food ...Continue Reading
Rustic Pear Tart with Cream and Spice
Confession time: If I have to choose between a sinfully rich chocolate dessert and a fruit dessert, I usually pick the chocolate. Scandalous, I know... It's not that I don't enjoy fruit desserts, because I do, (especially my homemade peach pie!), but chocolate will always hold a special place in my heart. Especially when it's combined with some sort of cream. I mean, can you really compete with that? However. The tables may have ...Continue Reading
My Top Homestead Time Management Tips
Let's face it... Homesteading can be tough sometimes. Last week I asked the crew over on The Prairie Homestead Facebook page about the biggest obstacles preventing them from homesteading. Naturally, I got a diverse set of answers, but one kept popping up over and over again: lack of time. I totally get it. Since starting this homesteading gig years ago, time has been my biggest nemesis. When I worked full-time ...Continue Reading