This homesteading journey never ceases to amaze me… If you would have told me four years ago that there was a way to preserve lemons, I probably would’ve laughed in your face. When I was growing up, if a lemon went bad, that bad boy went into the trash (gasp!). I know. I know. I was…
Homemade Sauerkraut {AKA Fermented Sauerkraut}
This lady likes LOVES her some easy… Seriously, I will do anything that is easy. Can I get an Amen ladies and gentlemen?!?! Amen. Not until I became a homesteader did I even know that I could make my own homemade sauerkraut. I use to buy that mushy/soggy stuff from the grocery store. In a…
Fermented Asparagus with Garlic and Thyme
It’s the new cool thing y’all… For me anyways. But, in fact, fermenting veggies goes way back. Like a really really long time. Prior to people having water bath canners, electricity, and all the cool canning stuff, they were fermenting foods. Fermented foods (AKA- lacto-fermented foods) are really quite simple and don’t involve anything but:…
How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Puree
Canned pumpkin isn’t really pumpkin… Most of the time. Sort of. It is usually a mix of different types of squash-mainly winter squash. MIND BLOWN yet? I was and still am. Here’s the lowdown. All pumpkins are winter squash BUT all winter squash are NOT pumpkins. It’s really all about botanical-plant-things that I really do not understand or…