Tag Archives: Food Production and Recipes

Curing my winter Sqaush for storage

I wanted to show you just a few of my sqaush, I had to put the littlest butternut alongside the biggest one, of course it looks small next to the pumpkin but trust me that is one big! butternut. Almost … Continue reading

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Black Bean and Smoked Corn Sausage Patties

I am always trying to find ways to sneak beans into my hubby’s diet, when I meet him, he would not eat this or that or any seafood or beans, thankfully over the years , he has learned to like … Continue reading

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Fall Garden Stew-Canning

Lots and Lots of Tomato’s Ready-Check Boatload of green peppers ready-Check Yellow and Green Beans by the bowlful-Check Potato’s died down and ready to harvest-Check Carrots-small but o so sweet-Check Turnips-Love the flavor to this-Check Butternut Squash or any other … Continue reading

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Power Out-How are you planning on cooking….

Gotta say, I am a bit surprised at the massive power-outage that took place in the US and Mexico, I mean wow, how can such a huge blackout occur because of one staff member, removed a piece of monitoring equipment,  … Continue reading

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Got Duck-Boy do I have recipe for you try..

Now I have more little tiny sweet cherry tomato`s then I honestly know what to do with, the amount dropping is sad, the splits are going to the chicken`s and ducks, the good are coming in and being dried into … Continue reading

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Fall update on Hugelbeets and how well they produced in year one.

This spring we made three hugelbeets, two on our own place, and one at a friends of ours, I figure its time to show the results, the issue with the results is that they just look like overrun mounds covered … Continue reading

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Making Homemade Grape Juice

Do you grow your own grapes?  Do you hunt for wild grapes? What do you do with your grapes, fresh eating for some? Use the Grape Leaves in cooking? Do you make your own juice, jelly or do you make homemade … Continue reading

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Green Peppers, Red Peppers, Hot Peppers..

Well, I am working my way though 37 pds of Red Peppers, 41 pds of green peppers, 3 pds of hot peppers, to which I also have lots of onions and tomato’s to use if needed. I have green pepper … Continue reading

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An Apple a day..

Even if you missed looking for those stunning white to white-pink flowers in your spring walks and travels, when if you wanted to wild harvest fruit, you should in fact have a local map marked with lots and lots of … Continue reading

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Stuffed Grape Leaves with Lamb

Most folks I know are more used to cabbage rolls raither then stuff grape leaf but it all falls into the same idea, which world wide called Dolma The idea is basic, take a veggie or a green leaf, wrap … Continue reading

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