Recipes: Preserved Foods

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.

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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…

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…

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…

Homemade Flavored Salts / Tuscan Herb

This time of year I’m rarely out of the kitchen – today it’s because I’m busy making homemade flavored salts. This Tuscan-herb one is particularly delicious. If you’d like some…

Honey-Sweetened Jam

I’ll never tire of Django Reinhart and the way his melodies trickle through the thick summer air. The slightly French tunes vibrate throughout the house during these long, hot days…

How To Render Duck Fat

How to render duck fat. Once upon a time, a dear friend of mine brought eight ducks to Cottage Hill. These male ducks had warn out their welcome on her…

Barrel Fermented Pickles

Oh hey you. How’s your July been going? Is it better now that you have five gallons of fermented pickles curing in your disgusting-but-soon-to-be-awesome root cellar? Ya. Me too. On…

Homemade Chorizo Recipe

I promised on Facebook I would bring you a homemade chorizo recipe, did I not? Surely, I can’t be the only one out there with a freezer of pork shoulders,…

Rhubarb Chutney With Honey.

Oh, Rhubarb Chutney, you make my heart sing. Even though I didn’t grow up eating chutneys, I will admit that they’re a nostalgic food for me. Not for the memories…

Homemade Bacon (dry cured and air dried)

Back in the day, people knew how to do cool things. Well, I think they’re cool. Well, really, I can’t be the only one in the world that thinks it’s exceptionally…

Pork Rillette Recipe

Pork. Porky, pork, pork. It’s on my mind. And it’s in my belly. And in my freezer. And in my refrigerator. And hanging in my kitchen. After butchering the pigs…

Recipes: Preserved Foods

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