for self-reliant living
Easy recipes and techniques for making food that you, your family and friends will love.
Dehydrating fresh tomatoes and basil is a great way to preserve the harvest for use throughout the year. I like to do both at once, since my dehydrator has enough room, and the house smells amazing! Dehydrating fresh tomatoes and basil Tomatoes were companion planted with green basil, and they done producing for the season. … Read more
Every summer, I make this beautiful, raspberry tinted opal basil vinegar with the herbs from the garden. It’s a great marinade for flank steaks, or to use on a salad with olive oil. You’ll definitely want some opal basil in your herb garden! What is opal basil? Opal basil is an herb that I grow … Read more
This zucchini bread recipe is so good! The zucchini bread is moist, and full of yummy spices – perfect on its own or slathered with cream cheese – and it it really easy to make. Make this two-loaf recipe now, and pop one loaf in the freezer to enjoy later. Zucchini Bread Recipe Ingredients for … Read more
If you are looking for a quick, raw vegetable summertime lunch, you have got to try this zesty zoodles recipe. If you are not familiar with them, zoodles are “noodles” made from fresh zucchini – made with a special gadget called a spiralizer. Every summer, the garden produces tons (and tons) of zucchini. What I … Read more
Every summer, gardeners everywhere are inundated with huge amounts of zucchini. And sometimes huge amounts of huge zucchini if they weren’t watching the garden every day. Those things can GROW! I have used this recipe for years and years, and tested it on kids aged 2 to 72. Funny that it’s only the adults that … Read more
The clumps of chives in the herb garden are just beginning to blossom, and I’ll be using them to make chive blossom vinegar. This gorgeous pale pink herbal vinegar is so easy to make, and gives salad a subtle hint of onion flavour. What you will need to make Chive Blossom Vinegar: a glass jar – large … Read more
The deli across the street from where I used to work charged $8.00 for HALF a sandwich. And that was for one of the least expensive sandwiches on the menu. Just for the sandwich. Getting a small bottle of iced tea was another $2.00. Ugh. It killed me every time I had to run over there if … Read more
Have you ever found a container at the back of the fridge that looked like a science project? Or that condiment that you couldn’t remember when it was opened? Easy steps to end food waste right in your own home Spoiled food and questionable stuff that gets tossed out is a real waste of money, isn’t … Read more
Buying food is a necessity, but we might as well save a ton of money while we shop, right? When I shop, my goal is to get out of there as fast as possible while spending as little as possible. Since I have been doing this for years and <ahem> years, let me share with … Read more
