Category Archives: Food Storage

Steak with Spaghetti Squash Recipe

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

I have given a lot of thought to how I wanted to share in a casual way on No Buy Feb and March Pantry Challenge. I want to give myself loads of flexibility and yet at the same time have … Continue reading →

Posted in Food in jars, Food Storage, local food | Tagged Canning, Eating for health, Farmgal, Frugal eating, Homesteading, Local garlic, Local Grass Fed Beef, Pasta sauce, Spaghetti Squash, Steak with side of Spaghetti Squash pasta, using up leftover | Leave a comment

Fall and Garden Burn out..

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

It happens to all of us.. at some point there is a garden burnout.. Where you look at the last of the things coming in and sigh, groan and go NO MORE! Of course there is more.. so much more.. … Continue reading →

Posted in Food in jars, Food Storage, Forage, Garden harvest, photography | Tagged Fall garden harvest, Fall harvest, fall hikes, farm cats, Hunter orange for your dogs, photography, Pumpkin kitten photo | 4 Comments

Baked Beef Shank Steaks

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

This garlic loving somewhat made in the pot BBQ sauce works so perfectly with these baked till pull apart tender Shank Steaks. There is enough sauce made for four steaks with the fixings for sure if you wanted to pull … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, frugal, grass fed beef | Tagged Baked Beef Shank Steaks, Cheap and Frugal Meals, Garlic, Shank Steaks Recipe, use different cuts of meat to help cut costs, Ways to stretch your meat | 3 Comments

Making Salt Cured Green Olives

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

You can imagine my excitement when a girifriend of mine found boxes of fresh raw green olives, yes they came from the states.. Needless to say two boxes were gotten.. one for her, one for me.. a bit of time … Continue reading →

Posted in Fermenting, food, Food Production and Recipes, Food Storage | Tagged Fermented food, Fermenting raw olives, Green Olives, Homemade Green Olives, Making Salt Cured Green olives, Olives | 8 Comments

Planting Fall Hard Neck Garlic 2021

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

I did hold back my best Music Garlic that we grew this year and I look forward to growing it again next year. Having said that, we have decided to expand our garlic selection. We choose to buy from a … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Food Production and Recipes, Food Storage, Garden | Tagged 100 mile diet, Buy Local, Fish lake 3 garlic, Garlic, Garlic growing in zone 5, Growing Garlic, Homestead garlic, Ivan Garlic, Northumberland Garlic, Support local growers | 2 Comments

Amish Nuttle Bean Review

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Amish Nuttle Bean Pbaseolus vulgaris is considered a Heritage Bean as well as being Slow Food’s Art of taste. Its said that it was grown and promoted by the Amish as early as 1802. However there is a bigger backstory on … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Food Storage, seed saving, Seeds, Soups and Stews | Tagged 90 day dried bean, Amish Nuttle Bean, Corn Hill Bean, grow your own seed stock, heritage bean, Pbaseolus vulgaris, Seed Saving, shelling dry beans, Soup bean | Leave a comment

Victorio Food Strainer Sauce Maker Review

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

My Sauce Maker has been getting a good work out, Apple sauce, Tomato sauce, Salsa, and yesterday Silky Smooth Peach Butter.. As I was working my way though turning two bushels of peaches into sauce that by ends day was … Continue reading →

Posted in Canning, Food in jars, Food Storage | Tagged apple sauce, Canning, farmgal review, making things simpler, peach sauce, sauce making, tomato sauce, Using a victorio sauce maker, victorio food strainer review | 2 Comments

How do you use Sunchokes?

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

I have two main styles of sunchokes, these little fingerlings and they have great flavour and they produce a crazy amount of them but they are tiny and scrubbing them is hard enough, there is no peeling them, so I … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, frugal, Garden harvest | Tagged Crispy oven baked Sunchokes, garden harvest sunchokes, Jerusalem artichokes, Late fall garden harvest, Pickled Sunchokes, sunchokes | 27 Comments

Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe 4 cups whole milk 1/2 a cup of sugar 1/2 cup of Powdered Coco 1 tsp of Vanilla 1/2 a tsp of cinnamon pinch of salt Extra.. Whip cream and sugar/cinnamon blend for sprinkling. In a … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, Pantry Challange | Tagged coco, Holiday Favorite, Homemade hot chocolate recipe, made from scratch, whole milk | 3 Comments

Hard Frost

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

It had to happen but its early.. three weeks early.. Oct 5th.. the first hard killing frost arrived on the farm.. even the things we covered which would have made it though a light frost with the covered, had been … Continue reading →