Some folks like a little fruit with their sugar. I'm not one of them. I mean if I'm going to the trouble of canning good food for my family, I'd rather it be good food, not half fruit, half refined sugar, right? I recently shared how I can cherries with honey and how I can apple slices, and today I'm super excited that my friend, and a member of The Prairie Homestead Team, Michelle Visser, agreed to share her amazing recipe for ...Continue Reading
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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
Cheddar Pear Pie
When I was younger, I remember my Dad always cutting a slice of cheddar cheese for his warm apple pie. As a young girl, I always thought it was a rather strange habit, and couldn't imagine how cheese and apple pie could possibly go together. Now that I'm older and have developed more 'mature' tastebuds, I can totally see where he was coming from! This is a lightly sweet, very refreshing pie. It can be served warm or chilled ...Continue Reading
Impossible Arrogance
“We can continue to improve [our meatless product] now until forever, and the cow is not going to get any better at being meat.” -Patrick Brown, Founder of Impossible Foods during an interview with Vox We recently sat down as a family to watch You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment on Netflix… It wasn’t until halfway through the first episode that I realized it was a propaganda piece for artificial ...Continue Reading