Having a toddler and a healthy living advocate in the house we go through bananas like a circus tent full of monkeys – not that eating bananas is bad. They are a great source of potassium and really help with the soreness after working too hard at the land. However, eating one food to […]
Year: 2014
Recipe: Egg Drop Soup
Here is an Asian inspired Egg Drop Soup that is very simple to make and uses one of the perfect homestead proteins sources – eggs. This is a very economical recipe that contains few ingredients in the base, but allows you to add more ingredients based upon your desires. Egg drop soup is just eggs added […]
Kitchen DIY: Chia Seeds
Chia seed is much better used as a food than as a pet. It is actually an ancient superfood from the sage family (Salvia Hispanica), and was once a staple of the Incan, Mayan and Aztec cultures, along with the Native Americans of the southwest. It was actually used as an energy supplement for Mayan […]
Don’t Peel Potatoes with an Electric Drill
I am sure that I could get this to work, but I promise I did not do this because I wanted it to work – this is an example of a neat idea that is creative but inefficient. Sometimes it is better just to stick with traditional ways of doing things. I guess that […]
Recipe: Homemade Cereal
I was surfing the internet the other day and found the coolest family – they have a neat website that happens to be their YouTube channel name (mylittlehomestead.com) This family of 6 moved from the city to the county and lived in a 24 foot trailer while they hand built their own home. – (earthbag […]