Kitchen 
THE PRESERVATION FRONT(11)
Another busy week of harvesting and preserving in our efforts to bring food security closer to home. While the kitchen is hub for the harvest happenings and we gals hang out with the likes of Ms Guava and Mr Pepper, outside we shift gears into a fall garden mode. In the kitchen, since we had [...]
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WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
Last week’s meal were, well, very simplistic and even nonexistent thanks to recent filming. Here’s what we urban homesteaders ate and enjoyed. I am hearing more and more from folks that they really like these meal posts – “keeping it real” as they say. Thanks for the postive comments everyone. SATURDAY Breakfast – homemade pancakes [...]
(0) ANOTHER SHINY SOLAR OVEN
FACT: every day the sun shines, an equivalent of 4.25 TRILLION barrels of oil falls on the US alone in the form of solar energy I have a confession, I been addicted to solar ovens ever since we built our first cardboard, aluminum oven back in the days — 1990 to be exact. Yep, we [...]
(8) WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP
Though there wasn’t that overwhelming onslaught of summer harvest the garden is still producing just enough for our family meals to consists of primarily homegrown. The lima beans are still producing like gangbusters providing us with hearty, wholesome and filling meals. Peppers and eggplants are still growing strong, another flush of green beans are almost [...]
(0) PAYING MORE FOR LESS
Have you noticed this slight of packaging, incredible shrinking phenomenon? How are you dealing with increase in food prices? How are you fighting back by letting retailers know that “we don’t need no stinkin’ packages!” Here are our ‘Seven Keys’ to saving money. Care to add? Grow your own Buy local and in season [...]
(9) CATCHING UP
Wacky Vegetables. Meet Mr Eggplant Just when things couldn’t get any busier – it gets busier and weirder. If this year doesn’t beat all! The weather is still flip flopping – hot a couple days, then cooler. Leaving us completely flabbergasted and anxious. Instead of the harvest increasing like normal years, it’s pretty much leveled [...]
(9) PRESERVING FOR FOOD SECURITY
Growing up, I remember looking through my father’s old Reader’s Digest’s Back to Basics book (still have it!) and drooling over the photo of a lady putting up her canned goods. I so wanted to have a pantry like that! This year, I pretty darn close to rivaling the lady in the photo. From Hippie [...]
(7) PRESERVATION HELPER
A friend of ours gave us this barely used electric dryer. Thanks so much A! I know, I know. I’m not one for gizmos that plug into wall sockets, but I’m a sucker for anything that has anything to do with homesteading. Even though it’s no solar dryer, I can say that this electric dryer will be powered by [...]
(6) URBAN HOMESTEAD’S WEEKLY MEAL
HG = Homegrown SATURDAY Breakfast – homemade pancakes (made with HG eggs) and homemade, HG strawberry sauce and HG peaches Dinner – homemade organic flour tortillas with homemade spanish rice (HG tomatoes, peppers, green onions) topped with HG tomatoes, peppers, cilantro and organic cheese SUNDAY Breakfast – homemade granola and HG fruit Lunch - leftovers [...]
(4) THE URBAN HOMESTEAD WEEKLY MENU
It’s been an abnormally, unseasonable cool week. Feels like late October or even June. I wonder if this could be the coolest August on record? We don’t really know how the cooler weather will affect the last of the summer crops or if this just just temporary and September and October will be scorchers. [...]
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