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How to Make Fresh Pasta
If you already grow tomatoes and keep chickens, why haven’t you learned how to make fresh pasta? It’s not difficult.
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Lazy Man’s Tomato Sauce
Add to Favorites By Daniel Strauss, Lockport, New York “Give a difficult job to a lazy man and he’ll find an easier way to do it.” So was the quote from an old issue …
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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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Heat and Eat on a Wood-Burning Cook Stove
Add to Favorites By Gail Reynolds, Missouri – Among the most common of homestead essentials is learning how to cook on the wood-burning cook stove. For most Countryside readers, the ultimate …
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On to Cuba
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum, A Taste of Homesteading Around the World In the late 1970S, a colleague of mine asked when I told him I was going on a …
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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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Miami Recipes: Where the People Play & Eat
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum As a child, roaming across the fields of Saskatchewan around our homestead, I hardly ever saw a puddle of water larger than a small pond. …
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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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Homemade Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
Add to Favorites Makes 7 quarts 14 pounds of tomatoes run through a strainer (weigh them before straining) 1 cup of olive oil …
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Paired to Perfection
Add to Favorites By Jacqueline Harp Can flock owners find synergies between the marketing of their lamb or mutton and the marketing done by the wine industry in their locality, …
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A Guide to Using Steam Canners
Steam canners have been around since at least the early 1900s, but for many years the USDA maintained that steam canning is unsafe.
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Why Can?
Whether you are a veteran home canner, or have just begun taking your first tentative steps into preserving your own homegrown food, you already know many of the reasons why anyone would bother.
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How To Select Canning Jars
Add to Favorites By Gail Damerow Canning jars come in two main categories, depending on the diameter of the opening. A narrow mouth jar, also known as a regular or …
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Learn How to Make Flavored Vinegar
Add to Favorites By Rita Heikenfeld and Erin Phillips – Remember when buying vinegar meant choosing between distilled, clear grain vinegar, cider, and a few choices of red and white …
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Delicious Eggplant Recipes and More
Add to Favorites By Jean Smith, Michigan — Locally sourced, homegrown, all-natural, organic … these are a just a few of the keywords that we as foodies and locavores look …
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