Say goodbye to the fruitcakes and ugly sweaters... The 2014 Homestead Gift Guide is here and ready to roll! You know,personally, I think us homestead-types are pretty darn easy to buy for. I mean, we're pretty much interested in everything, and easily amused too, for the most part. (Canning jars? YAY! A new egg basket? YAY! Knitting needles? YAY! New muckboots? YAY!) BUT if you need a jumpstart to your gift-buying efforts, I know ...Continue Reading
Archives for November 2014
Lemongrass – How to Grow It and Use It
By Anni Winings, contributing writer I first came across lemongrass while visiting a farmer's market in Florida while we were traveling. The little old man handed me a bunch of lemongrass stalks and said, "You put those in water and they grow again." He picked up another stalk and showed me how to chop it and use the inner part of the lemongrass. It smelled amazing when he chopped it up, and I bought a couple of bunches of ...Continue Reading
Homemade Cranberry Sauce Recipe
*Slurp* *Plop!* Ah... the lovely sound that canned cranberry jelly makes as you delicately extract it from the can... Even back before my real food transformation, it always seemed out of place. I mean, you spent all day basting the turkey, and making the rolls, and mashing the 'taters, only to have the last item you put on the table be this bizarre ridged cylinder of store-bought cranberry jelly. But hey-- who was I ...Continue Reading
DIY Homemade Cough Drops
By Stacy Karen, contributing writer When a sore throat strikes, many of us reach for a throat lozenge to soothe the pain. As you may have noticed, most store-bought throat lozenges or cough drops contain unpleasant ingredients, such as food colorings and preservatives. We don't want these chemicals in our system at the best of times, and most definitely not when we are sick. Thankfully, homemade cough drops are quite simple to make ...Continue Reading
Pumpkin Pie Recipe: Made with Honey
The Four Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and PUMPKIN. It's that time of year, where no matter what you are trying to buy, there is pumpkin-flavored something staring you in the face. Pumpkin candles, coffee, soap, bread, muffins, chewing gum, laundry detergent... OK, maybe not those last two, but you get the idea... Let's be honest, when the pumpkin-craze hits, we're really just trying to imitate one thing: The ...Continue Reading