Making a homemade sourdough starter is a fairly simple process, but it can also bring up some questions, and one of those questions is how often you need to feed your sourdough starter. It can be a bit tricky sometimes, though, to answer the question of how often you should feed your starter because it… Continue reading How Often Should You Feed a Sourdough Starter?
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DIY Herbal Salt Recipes to Try
Making your own DIY herbal salt blends is a simple and easy way to create your own gourmet seasoning blends and to control the quality of the blends and customize them the way you like based on your favorite herbs and which dishes you like to cook. DIY herbal salt blends are also a great… Continue reading DIY Herbal Salt Recipes to Try
How to Make Your Own Maple Syrup – Part 2: Boiling Down the Sap
If you have a few backyard maple trees and you live in a climate where it’s below freezing at night and above freezing during the day time, then it’s really quite simple to make your own maple syrup and boil down the sap into delicious syrup that you can drizzle over pancakes or use in… Continue reading How to Make Your Own Maple Syrup – Part 2: Boiling Down the Sap
How to Make Homemade Maple Syrup: Tapping Your Maple Trees
There are some aspects of homesteading that are definitely more challenging for those of us who live in suburban areas with small yards, but if you have maple trees in your backyard and you have the right climate, then learning how to make homemade maple syrup is a simple process that’s easy for a suburban… Continue reading How to Make Homemade Maple Syrup: Tapping Your Maple Trees
How to Make A Backup Sourdough Starter
If you like baking with a sourdough starter, the best thing you can do to make sure you can continue using it for a long time is to make a backup sourdough starter. Even though sourdough starters are usually pretty resilient and hard to kill, if you neglect feeding it for too long, or if… Continue reading How to Make A Backup Sourdough Starter
How to Cook from Scratch (Without Spending all Day in the Kitchen!)
Switching over to a healthier, real food lifestyle can seem a little bit daunting at first, especially if you’re used to grabbing fast food on the way home from work or popping a TV dinner in the microwave. Cooking your own meals is the best way to save money, avoid the artificial ingredients in many… Continue reading How to Cook from Scratch (Without Spending all Day in the Kitchen!)
12 Immune Boosting Foods You Already Have In Your Kitchen
When we think of immune boosting foods, often some of the first things that come to mind are the exotic superfoods that are praised for their amazing healing properties. We tend to think that if a food comes from a faraway place, or it it has an exotic-sounding name that’s hard to pronounce that it… Continue reading 12 Immune Boosting Foods You Already Have In Your Kitchen