Q and A: making applesauce and tomato sauce, storing fresh carrots, using crabapples
Making applesauce and tomato sauce
Have you ever washed, cut, and cooked apples, put through juicer strainer with a large tea strainer on pan to drain juice from pulp? It makes thick applesauce, and...
New chickens on the homestead get a new coop
We had unexpected new chickens. My oldest son, Bill, called to say that his father-in-law had 12 heavy laying hens that he was given in the spring and he didn't want to winter them....
New friends are always welcome
You'd think, living way back here in the woods of northern Minnesota, we'd be isolated from human contact, at least to some extent. Not so. Especially because I write for BHM. A couple of...
Q and A: canning dried beans, planting asparagus, and dried citrus peels
Canning dried beans
It is not so easy to find cooking method to can dried beans in a pressure cooker. A good place I've found is at http://pickyourown.org/canningdriedbeans.htm but it seems it cooks the beans...
Winter is finally here
We had a terrible summer, but November was pretty wonderful. It was warmer than usual and we had no snow to speak of. So we got a lot of things done in preparation for...