These chocolate treats make great gifts and delicious holiday desserts
By Tanya Kelley
Issue #42 • November/December, 1996
Just in case the world comes to an end, I plan on keeping plenty of chocolate on hand in my food storage. That is, if I can keep...
Elissaburgettes
Recipe of the Week
Elissaburgettes
Courtesy of
Jan Cook
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
1 can buttermilk biscuits
1 lb. hamburger
1 medium onion, chopped
1/4 cup ketchup
1/8-1/4 cup mustard
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Method
Grease...
Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters
By Angeline Hawkes
Issue #153 • May/June, 2015
With two professional fiction writers in my household, we drink a lot of coffee. Keeping it hot and ready meant going through a lot of paper filters. In...
The healthy and tantalizing pomegranate
By Habeeb Salloum
Wonderful to look at, appetizing in flavor, delicious in taste and with a juice which is refreshing on a hot summer day, is a fair description of the pomegranate.
Although according to the...
Sweet potato pudding
Recipe of the Week
Sweet potato pudding
Courtesy of
Larry Cywin
You'll find this recipe and over 400 more in Backwoods Home Cooking.Click Here
Ingredients
6 medium sweet potatoes
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. cinnamon
Method
Peel the...
Black & Blue Mango Pie
Recipe of the Week
Black & Blue Mango Pie
Courtesy of
Carole Walter
Ingredients
1 small recipe flaky pie pastry
2 large or 3 medium mangoes
2 cups (1 pint) fresh blueberries
1-1/2 cups (6-ounce basket) fresh blackberries
2/3 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
2...
Czarist Chicken Salad
Recipe of the Week
Czarist Chicken Salad
Courtesy of
Frannie Burdette
Ingredients
4 chicken breast halves (about 1-1/2 pounds)
4 small red potatoes, boiled, peeled, sliced
1/2 cup coarsely chopped deli-style dill pickle
1 onion quartered, divided
1 rib celery,...
Can the U.N. Ban America’s Guns?
By Claire Wolfe
Website Exclusive • April, 2013
The rumor flashed across the Internet last winter: the Obama administration is going to use a United Nations arms treaty to get around the Second Amendment and ban...
Growing Strawberries
By Patrice Lewis
Issue #162 • November/December, 2016
As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely curled up next to the woodstove with a mug of...
Growing Microgreens
By Lisa Nourse
Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019
The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic produce during the winter months is difficult. I find myself...
You can safely and easily can your own meat
By Jackie Clay
Issue #105 • May/June, 2007
Of all the foods I can every year, the most useful is the wide variety of meats. While we aren't huge meat eaters, these rows and rows of...
Propagating Plants
By Jackie Clay
Issue #128 • March/April, 2011
We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods our hearts desire. But the prices in the nursery catalogs...
Salmon candy and pickles — Two unique ways to enjoy your next catch
By Linda Gabris
Issue #93 • May/June, 2005
Salmon is always a treat, but if you want to try something different, how about making pickles and candy out of the next fish that lands in your...
Solar-powered water purifiers
By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM
Issue #146 • March/April, 2014
Most of us can stay alive up to a month without any food if stranded, but we could not live longer than three days without water...
Sunday night dinner
By Ilene Duffy
Issue #121 • January/February, 2010
"Tradition! Tradition!" I can still hear the bellowing song from Fiddler on the Roof that we listened to over and over as kids. Some of us have religious...
Build a homestead Copy Cart
By Charles Sanders
Issue #45 • July/August, 1997
I don't know too many homesteaders, gardeners, or small farmers who haven't at one time or another wished for one of those fancy big-wheeled garden carts. It seems...
