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Home Storage and Preparedness

Easy Bread: 3 Limited Ingredient Recipes

April 8, 2020 by Homestead Lady 2 Comments

Are you out of flour? Yeast? Only have wheat kernels but no grinder? Here are three easy bread recipes for beginners and seasoned bread bakers alike. Each recipe allows for a key missing ingredient from classic bread recipes. If you can’t get to the store before you need to make bread, don’t worry! You can make easy bread recipes with these tutorials! different breads with butter

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Ferments, Gluten Free, Health, Healthy Grains, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food

Grow Food Fast – Kitchen & Garden

March 21, 2020 by Homestead Lady 6 Comments

Sometimes you just don’t have time to wait for spring, or you’ve waited too long to get the spring garden started. Other times, you’re stuck at home with illness or pregnancy but still need to feed your family. Ah, quarantines! Here are six ideas for foods you can quickly produce – grow food fast on your counter and in the garden (including pots)!

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Filed Under: Prepared Tagged With: Family Time, Ferments, Gluten Free, Green Living, Grow Your Own, Health, Healthy Grains, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Homestead Question, Kids on the Homestead, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food, Spring Project

How to Make and Use Milk Kefir

March 19, 2020 by Homestead Lady 15 Comments

Have you heard of milk kefir? Maybe all you know is that is has some connection to probiotics and everyone seems to pronounce it differently. Well, here are the basics on how to make milk kefir, along with the benefits and ways to use it. milk kefir grains on a wooden spoon
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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Ferments, Gluten Free, Health, Healthy Grains, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homestead Question, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food, Preserve, Raw Food

Curry Sweet Pickles

March 13, 2020 by Homestead Lady 8 Comments

Here’s an old fashioned sweet pickles recipe from my family’s kitchen but with a savory twist! This curry sweet pickles recipe is an easy recipe for beginner canners!

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Filed Under: Prepared Tagged With: Gluten Free, Home Storage and Preparedness, Make it Yourself, Preserve

Fresh Cranberry & Dried Persimmon Sauce

November 21, 2019 by Homestead Lady Leave a Comment

Combine the benefits of heart-healthy cranberries with foraged persimmons for a richly flavored holiday sauce. This homemade cranberry sauce recipe includes cinnamon, oranges, dried persimmon and a hint of vanilla. Stop eating store bought cranberry sauce this year and replace it with this healthier, tastier homemade version!

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Fall Project, Festive, Foraging and Wildcrafting, Gluten Free, Healthy Treat, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Homestead Holidays, Make it Yourself, Medicinal Food, Preserve, Traditions, Winter Project

How to Plan and Plant a Medicinal Herb Garden

September 14, 2019 by Homestead Lady 28 Comments

Learn how to simply and easily plan a medicinal herb garden for all your plant-based wellness needs. Aren’t sure what herbs are traditionally considered medicinal? We can help with that, too! You CAN grow wellness, or medicinal, herbs wherever you live, in whatever space you have. …

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Filed Under: In the Garden Tagged With: Green Living, Grow Your Own, Health, Herbs, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homestead Question, Medicinal Food, Natural

Canned Apple Cider Concentrate

September 4, 2019 by Homestead Lady 10 Comments

Do you can your own apple slices? If you do, here’s how to use the leftover liquid from that process to make up small batches of canned apple cider concentrate. This canning recipe doesn’t require anything you don’t already have on hand – you don’t even need to buy or make apple cider! Here’s how easy it is in five simple steps.

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Fall Project, Festive, Gluten Free, Healthy Treat, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Homestead Holidays, Make it Yourself, Natural, Traditions

How to Make Sun Dried Tomatoes

August 24, 2019 by Homestead Lady 51 Comments

Here’s how to make and how to use sun dried tomatoes – the ones that cost so much in the fancy food stores. Sun dried tomatoes are low carb friendly and healthy. You don’t even have to have a dehydrator to make them yourself! …

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Gluten Free, Grow Your Own, Healthy Treat, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Make it Yourself, Preserve, Summer Project

Make Healthy Juices at Home

August 7, 2019 by Homestead Lady 21 Comments

With some simple equipment you can learn to make your own healthy juices from fresh, summer fruits. Not only will these healthy juices be healthier than store bought, but it will most likely be cheaper, too. Not to mention that it makes a great food storage product and is useful in many recipes and drinks. cup of juice…

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Fall Project, Festive, Grow Your Own, Healthy Treat, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Homestead Question, Make it Yourself, Preserve

Dehydrated Paleo Hash Browns

December 12, 2018 by Homestead Lady 8 Comments

You may think that because you’ve gone Paleo or even Keto that you can never enjoy your favorite breakfast foods again. No, ma’am! Try this method for making dehydrated Paleo hash browns from Paleo and Keto approved veggies. Dehydrating them before you use them is the secret to keeping them perfectly moist, without being a soggy mess.

Dehydrated Paleo Hash Browns Recipe l Make perfect hash browns each time l Homestead Lady.com

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Filed Under: Whole Kitchen Tagged With: Gluten Free, Health, Home Storage and Preparedness, Homemade, Kids in the Kitchen, Preserve

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