Canned bacon — Roll your own
By Enola Gay
Issue #127 • January/February, 2011
I have to admit, I am somewhat of an extreme canner. I love to can unusual thingscanned foods you just don't find on everyone's shelves. My latest canning...
Cooking from long-term food storage
By Jackie Clay
Issue #55 • January/February, 1999
All self-reliant families know they should have at least a year's worth of food and essential supplies stored up in a large pantry. Unfortunately, actually eating from long-term...
Lamb and black bean tamale pie
Recipe of the Week
Lamb and black bean tamale pie
Courtesy of
Richard Blunt
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
1-1/2 lb. ground lamb
1 tsp. olive oil
2 cups onion, diced medium
1 large...
Canning meat plus how to use your canned meat
By Jackie Clay-Atkinson
Although we have a big freezer, I can up most of our meat. We raise beef cattle, turkeys, chickens, and we hunt, so we have a lot of meat. (Besides that, I...
Stuffed Mushrooms – Greek Style
Recipe of the Week
Stuffed Mushrooms - Greek Style
Courtesy of
Fran Chiodo
Ingredients
1 large pkg whole white mushrooms (around 25 count)
2 pkg (10oz.) chopped frozen spinach (thawed and drained)
1 can or jar (about 5oz) Greek black olives...
Stuffed sweet peppers
Recipe of the Week
Stuffed sweet peppers
Courtesy of
Alice Brantley Yeager
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
4 large sweet peppers
2 cups cooked rice
1 cup cooked ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped
1...
Beans for Sarah
Recipe of the Week
Beans for Sarah
Courtesy of
Richard Blunt
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
1 1/4 cups dried pinto beans
water to soak beans
3 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
12 oz....
Basic chicken broth
Richard Blunt
Ingredients
1 5-6 lb. stewing hen or roasting chicken
6 qts. cold water
2 medium onions, peeled and cut into quarters
1 celery rib with leaves attached
1 whole carrot
2 bay leaves
8 whole black peppercorns
3 whole cloves
1 piece...
Raspberry chocolate torte
Recipe of the Week
Raspberry chocolate torte
Courtesy of
Tanya Kelley
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
Cake:
1 devil’s food cake mix
butter for cake
Filling:
2 cups raspberries or pitted cherries (fresh or...
Some unusual jellies for your sweet tooth
By Charles Sanders
Issue #70 • July/August, 2001
In my mind, one of the simple pleasures in life is hot biscuits, a dab of butter, and a dollop of homemade jelly. Around here any biscuits left...
Switch your family to goat’s milk
By Tanya Kelley
Issue #128 • March/April, 2011
If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat milk does taste different than cow milk. So? Different doesn't...
The real “Q” — Barbecue the way it’s supposed to be
By John DePresca
Photos by Carolyn DePresca
Issue #119 • September/October, 2009
The next time you go to the grocery store or supermarket check out the price of a pound of already prepared barbecue. If you're shocked...
Asparagus Pasta Salad
Recipe of the Week
Asparagus Pasta Salad
Courtesy of
Don Peddleson
Ingredients
12 ounces fresh asparagus, diagonally sliced into 1-inch pieces
12 cherry tomatoes, quartered
1/2 cup pitted ripe olives, sliced
3 tablespoons snipped parsley
1/4 cup wine vinegar
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 clove...
Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and...
By Richard Blunt
Issue #47 • September/October, 1997
About 70% of the earth's surface is covered with salt water, and 4% of land surface (another 1% of the earth' total surface) is covered with fresh water....
Pumpkin preserves
Recipe of the Week
Pumpkin preserves
Courtesy of
Jackie Clay
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
4 lbs. pumpkin
2 lemons
sugar
1/2 tsp. each, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg
pinch salt
Method
Mash the pumpkin and lemon meat in...































