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 […]
Category: Cooking & Food Storage
Various articles on food storage, food preparedness, cooking, and general kitchen stuff
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 […]
How to Make Camp Fire Baked Potatoes in a Can
Here is a great recipe/technique for Camp Fire baked potatoes that would work well for camping, grilling out, or making food in a grid down SHTF scenario To bake a potato in a can simply: Remove the entire top of a soda can. (Using you P-38 can opener gets extra points) Smear the whole […]
Recipe: Tomato Pie
I didn’t marry my wife because of tomato pie, (it was a picture of her nursing a baby goat that made me realize she was the one) but it was high on the pro/con list. I had never heard of such a thing as tomato pie and was really hesitant to try it, but once […]