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HOMESTEAD BLESSINGS COOKBOOK(3)
Home Cooking with our homesteading Tennessee friends, the West Ladies, is a beautiful 218 page book with over 150 tasty and unique recipes.
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HOME INDUSTRY: Cottage Food Bill
California bakers asked California state legislators to enact a Cottage Foods bill authorizing the Department of Health and Senior Services and/or the Department of Agriculture to issue customized “Home Bakery” licenses
(24) HOMESTEAD HELPERS: Cleaning Stove
Do you know that there is a way to clean your stove without any chemicals? I learned a trade secret form a trendy housecleaning service that kept this little nifty trick “under wraps.”
(23) PUTTING UP: Tomato Sauce
Thanks to an extended summer harvest season, I’m getting my canning groove back after a month hiatus.
I certainly wasted no time in putting up… it was time to put up or shut up! No more dawdling (well, not that I WAS but … )
(14) TABOULEH
Ever since I was introduced to this Mediterranean salad back when I was a teenager, Tabouleh has become one of my favorite summer salads. Especially using the fresh homegrown ingredients that are growing in our garden, I could easily polish off a whole bowl myself.
(5) JUST PEACHY
Blame it on the humid weather last week and the smell of wet pavement when the humidity broke or the Gillian Welch tune “Dixieland” rolling around in my noggin, I got a hankering for good ol’ southern cooking.
(7) THAR SHE BLOWS
Look what “beached up” here on the homestead!
With massive squash plants (all that good compost) one’s bound to miss one or two… more like three! Aye, aye! But what to do with these here “whales”?
(19) MIND YOUR ELDERS!
With a have a huge elderberry bush in the corner of the property, every summer I always enjoy making preserves & syrups.
The bush and berries are steeped in folklore and offer many a remedy for a slew of ailments.
SUMMER FRUIT SALAD
One of the joys of summer eating is fresh herbs. Mixing herbs like mint, pineapple sage and lemon verbena with fruit gives is like fireworks for your taste-buds.
(1) HOMEMADE SOLAR OVEN
It’s summer and that means dusting off the solar ovens. No need to heat up the house hotter than it is for cooking simple foods.
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