I made some cowboy sushi because I wanted to make something nice for my wife. I told her it was to help her with her Thanksgiving meal at her school, but really I just wanted her to know I was thinking about her. She always says I am too inventive in the kitchen, but I […]
Category: Cooking & Food Storage
Various articles on food storage, food preparedness, cooking, and general kitchen stuff
Making Homemade Pasta
I have a very easy recipe for making your own homemade pasta. I love pasta, and since boxed pastas cannot compete with fresh noodles, I wanted to share my recipe. It is very simple and easy to modify once you get the principles down. Basically it is one cup flour to one cup egg. All […]
Recipe Bean Bark
Bean Bark is a food storage method that is economical as well as easy and versatile. It lends credibility to my idea that if prepping does not make life easier, you are doing it wrong. The bean bark we will show you how to make can be used to make or to add protein and […]
Sterilizing Water in a Pressure Cooker
This method Sterilizing Water in a Pressure Cooker is much like pressure canning. Except instead of sterilizing food, we will be sterilizing drinking water in glass canning jars. Unlike filtering or distillation, this will not do anything for contaminate – just organisms. To truly sterilize something, it must be free of all microbes AND spores. […]
How to Make Cold Smoked Cheese
After enjoying the sausage, I had to try some Smoked Cheese – when smoking hard cheese you need to ensure the smoke is less than 175 degrees unless you want to pick melted cheese from the bottom of your smoker. It does not take very much to smoke cheese – a little goes a long […]