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The Best Deviled Eggs Recipe with a Twist
Deviled eggs are the go to party appetizer, especially around the holidays. There is no simpler dish to make for that last minute get together than a plateful of deviled eggs. We have taken the best deviled eggs recipe and given it a new twist with some delicious toppings your would not have considered before. We love deviled eggs in this house. My daughter and husband can consume a dozen in one sitting. With the holiday season upon us, and parties and gatherings getting into full swing, now is the perfect time to make extras to share. For a homesteader with an abundance of eggs, it is also a great…
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Preparing Your Vegetable Garden For Winter – A Homesteader Interview
The garden is the heartbeat of the homestead. It is the place you spend your entire summer tilling, planting, and weeding. Then fall hits and it is harvest time and you spend the next month picking, canning, and preserving. But what do you do after harvest? How do you begin preparing your vegetable garden for winter? Whether your plan is to have a fall/winter garden or close it down until spring, we are going to discuss it all with our homesteader Charis Scofield. Before we dig into the interview, let’s talk about some of the decisions you will need to make before you start preparing the vegetable garden for…
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The Best Pie Crust Recipe (Step by Step Guide)
This step by step guide will teach you everything you need to know to make the perfect pie crust every time. In this guide we will talk about what makes the best pie crust recipe and break the recipe down into a step by step process that will up your pie crust making game in time for the holidays. Your family will be asking how you do it! Pie crusts are the underrated heroes of holiday desserts. Without a great crust, you can never have a great pie! Pie is so much more than the filling, it is a textural combination of a delicious filling and flaky buttery crust. No…
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Beginners Guide on How to Winterize Your Bee Hives (An Interview)
Today we are talking about bee keeping on the homestead and what you need to know on how to winterize your bee hives. We will talk with homesteader and bee keeper Cara Nitz and get her thoughts on keeping bees and how to prepare them for the long winter ahead. Bees and homesteading have gone hand in hand for well over four thousand years. The first kept hives consisting of little more than holes in rocky mountainsides or roughly woven baskets. Today’s beekeeping is much less crude and is quickly becoming a popular hobby around the world! Bee keeping can be a daunting task to undertake if you are…
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Easy and Hearty Indian Stew (with Ninja Foodi Adaptation)
Cool weather is an invitation for hearty meals at the dinner table. One of our favorite hearty stews for cold weather is an Indian Stew that is chock full of potatoes and carrots and served over a bed of rice. You heard that right! Rice and potatoes makes this easy and hearty Indian Stew a stick to your ribs kind of meal. Indian Stew is a favorite of the family, but my daughter really loves it. It is always one of her top responses to the question, “what do you want for dinner?”. I always know that when I make it, there will be no issues getting the kids to…
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Benefits of Seed Saving and How to Start (an Interview)
Seed saving is an important part of any homesteaders or gardeners preparation for winter. As the garden comes to a close, it is important to be planful of the upcoming year and a new gardening season. Seed saving is at the heart of true sustainability and self reliance. All Photo rights in this post belong to Ashley at The Homestead Mother Today we are going to be talking seed saving. I will be interviewing Ashley from The Homestead Mother and we will cover everything you need to know to have a successful seed saving year as you prepare the homestead for winter. We will explore how Ashley got started in…
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The Best Apple Streusel Bread Recipe
This is the best apple streusel bread recipe you will come across! It is a delicious and relatively healthy dessert that taste like fall. Large chunks of apples stud this lovely quick bread. The cinnamon, oat, and brown sugar streusel topping provides the perfect amount of sweetness and texture to make this apple streusel bread a delightful mouthful. Apples are the quintessential fall fruit. The crisp red skin breaking way to a sweet interior brings about thoughts of bonfires and falling leaves. Every fall we find ourselves in apples somehow. While we usually end up making applesauce with majority of the apple, we always have one or two apple…
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How to Use Herbal Remedies on the Homestead (an Interview)
With cold and flu season upon us, what better way to prepare the homestead for winter than with Herbal remedies. These remedies are what our ancestors used before modern medicine came into play and continue to be a great way to keep your family happy and healthy on the homestead. Herbs are a multi purpose plant at the homestead. They can be used to make mouthwatering recipes, in cleaning, and as medicine for animals and homesteader alike. There are many different uses of herbs in medicine and wellbeing that we will talk about today. Before we meet our homesteader let’s learn a little more about herbs and their uses…
