Make Your Own: Sun-dried Tomatoes
Hello my friends, As I was bent over the tomato plants, sweating in the insulting September heat, I reminded myself as I picked tomato after tomato to give thanks for the harvest…
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For many months of the year, our family is sustained by what we grew and preserved during the harvest season. A large root cellar sits below our kitchen to store these beauties.
The way Italians Taught Me To Make Tomato Passata
Hello my friends, I’m back in the work-saddle after over a week away in South Carolina. The intention wasn’t to completely fall out of the work-saddle, but as fate would…
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Small crop from your garden? Make homemade giardinera.
The harvest from the garden doesn’t always go as planned and sometimes we’re left with a small crop of odds and ends to deal with. The answer to a small…
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Don’t waste food: eating and using bones
This is not the season for wasting food. Before we harvest all the meat from our homestead this fall, it’s time to use up the remnants of what is left…
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Homemade Gelato: Got summer fruit? Make this!
I’m not sure why it took me so long to make homemade gelato. Thanks to my dairy cow, Cece, I’ve made plenty of ice cream over the years. But gelato…
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Preserving eggs.
We don’t often think about egg’s having a season, but they do – and this video is all about preserving eggs! When the days grow longer and warmer and all…
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Homemade Bacon is this simple: salt, sugar, and 7 days.
It’s been seven years now since Brandon Sheard of Farmstead Meatsmith came to visit our (then) farm and taught us how to properly kill, clean, cut, wrap, and cure our…
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Easy Fermented Hot Sauce
I hope you love this easy fermented hot sauce recipe. It’s such an easy and fun (and tasty) project to do with an abundance of hot peppers. I can’t even…
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Fermented Salsa
In my (almost) three years of running The Elliott Homestead Cooking Community, this fermented salsa recipe has become one of the most popular and most requested. It’s the only way…
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Homemade Flavored Oils.
Oh my goodness – homemade flavored oils! YES PLEASE! Today in the kitchen we’re making hot chili oil, garlic oil, and rosemary oil but the options are limitless!
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Homemade Raisins (& the painstaking truth)
It doesn’t happen very often, but once in a blue moon, I’ll take a step back and assess the amount of input into a homesteading activity versus the output of…
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Preserved Tomatoes in Olive Oil
As we round the corner into autumn here on our farm, I’m often found in the kitchen making preserved tomatoes in olive oil. It is one of those tasks each…
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