Self sufficient living in a modern world
As the garden keeps giving, I keep on putting food up. Because I use several methods of storing food, I use the methods that best suit our needs and I know the food will get used. While the pantry fills, taters sit at the bottom under every shelf, jars start to stack up, and I…
While waiting for the bumper crops to start, those tomatoes start to come in. I love to eat the wonderful fruits as they come in the house, having that kind of reward is so wonderful. I have, through the years come up with many uses as has Danielle. Coming from England she brings with her…
I am ready to still continue making my own food if power is lost for long periods of time. I know how and have the proper equipment to manually prepare my own food for long term storage. But for now, I have power and I have lots of fruits and produce to get through. Using…
Well the garden is coming in and doing its job, I have processed pickles, chutneys, jams, squash, onions, garlic and the corn is coming in. I have had so many cukes, I put some in the frig and meaning to get back to them for bread and butter pickles, and well they went limp on…
This year, with the unseasonal warm temperatures, maple syrup making time is cut short. I am not complaining at all, and grateful to see brown/green ground and feel the warmer air around me. Even some of the 600 plus bulbs I planted last fall are coming up, at least the ones the moles haven’t eaten….
I finished editing the second, last video in my two part series on cooking canned deer meat. the recipe shared, is a recipe that has been in my family for a long time, I don’t know how long. Its good and it will make you satisfied and happy. Be sure to cook with a little…
I hope you enjoy both parts of this video on deer meat…. Just a self sufficient reward!! I really enjoy canning food, and its rewards. I have a sense of pride when I set a meal out that I have grown, gathered, hunted or harvested. I know the food I am setting on the table…
Here is some photos of different ways I like to eat my deer. The pictures is the canned deer meat I put up last January, the big tough doe I harvested during muzzle loader season. I like to let the canned meat to sit at least 8-9 months on the shelf before I eat it….
Its been a while since a true update on supplies I have been putting up. Corns in, carrots in, peas in, green beans are done, Thanks to ladies stockings, the onions are good to go. I made a fresh sandbox for the carrots to winter store them. I have dry packed shrooms, bells, and onions,…
So lets talk about my jamming/canning adventures for a minute. I once was asked about my 1966 tappon stove and how canning pots won’t fit under it.So as it is, this is pictures of my canning pots/stove out on the back deck. If you recall I picked this up off the street corner and did…