Today we make mini apple pie. On a whim I bought the little pie maker set pictured here and started messing with making pie dough and lots of pies. I am new to making pie crust, but I should have gotten into earlier as much as I like tomato pie. My son was pretty exited […]
Category: Cooking & Food Storage
Various articles on food storage, food preparedness, cooking, and general kitchen stuff
Easy 20 Minute Oven Baked Trout Recipe – How to Cook Fish in Parchment Paper
I get to show you how to cook fish in parchment paper because William has been begging to go fishing. We actually live pretty close to the famous Bucksnort Trout Ranch on Interstate 40 outside of Nashville. I got him out of pre-school a little early and we went on a ‘venture. We caught a […]
How to Make an Emergency Food Bar
Emergency food needs to be shelf stable and contain needed nutrients. It is a plus if the food tastes good, is light weight, and not very expensive. This was not the easiest project to achieve, and I had to test many different recipes until I settled on this particular one. This particular food bar recipe […]
Kitchen DIY: How to Nixtimalize Corn
This project looks deceptively simple, but it is one that I had to try a couple times to get right. I only stuck with it because Nixtamalization is a vital process for people that use corn as a staple food. This is because the nutrient niacin is unavailable in unprocessed corn, and by cooking dried […]