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Kitchen Gift Guide: Homemade Bread Recipes, Mason Jar Cookie Mixes and More
Add to Favorites As we prepare for the holidays, I always take a day to make gifts from the kitchen to share with friends, teachers and co-workers. One of my …
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4 Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes
Add to Favorites Western culture seems to focus on three ways to cook sweet potatoes: as pie, as French fries, and smothered in butter, brown sugar, and marshmallows for the …
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How to Make Vanilla Extract
Add to Favorites Learning how to make vanilla extract is easy. And if you start by late summer, you can make a superior homemade vanilla extract gift, perfect for anyone …
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What’s for Dessert?
Add to Favorites By Wanda Pentyon Egg Custard Pie 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup flour 2 tablespoons butter, melted 2 cups milk 3 eggs 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 unbaked pie …
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Cast Iron Skillet Cornbread
Add to Favorites 2 cups freshly ground corn. If not ground fine in grinder, place in blender on high to finer grind. It doesn’t have to be a flour consistency. …
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Hearty Minnesota Fare
Add to Favorites By Clara Groenhoff, Minnesota My Norwegian great-grandparents homesteaded the farm where I grew up. I’ve also always been a homesteader at heart. I’ve raised 11 children on …
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Making German Bread in Your Home Oven
Add to Favorites By Stefanie Making bread is as much an art as it is science. There are many ways to make bread—and I am sure many people have their …
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In The Kitchen — Travel: Tunisia’s Paradise
Add to Favorites Story & Photos By Habeeb Salloum, A Taste of Homesteading Around The World The taxi driver, Ahmad, was talkative as we drove through the beautiful countryside of the Island …
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In Brazil, Eternal Summer
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum, A Taste of Homesteading Around the World I was visiting my relatives on the farm in southern Saskatchewan when a family friend from Brazil remarked, …
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Cooking Duck Breasts
Add to Favorites Photos & Story By Janice Cole, Minnesota If you’re looking for something special to serve this holiday season, think duck. That is, duck breasts. Yes, you can …
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Guadalajara — Where Colonial History Meets Modern Mexico
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum, A Taste of Homesteading Around the World Guadalajara, the capital of the state of Jalisco and one of Mexico’s great colonial cities, is considered to …
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Recipes: Middle Eastern Sweets
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum The delicious pastries of the Arab Middle East are not the invention of today or yesterday. They have a history that goes back thousands of …
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How To Make Sauerkraut
Add to Favorites By Linda Baccei This is a method I adapted that combines getting things started with dry salting and then using a brine solution as needed. You will need a large …
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Experimenting With Maple Syrup
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum The first stop of our group on the Tap into Maple Route located in Ontario’s Lake Country and Springwater, an area within the larger region …
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Raising Sheep For Profit: Milking Sheep Offer a Small Farm Alternative
Add to Favorites By J.D. Belanger – Question: Like most homesteaders who weren’t originally interested in raising sheep for profit, I’d love to find a way to earn some money …
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