I’m always looking for new ways to use my sourdough starter. So far, the homemade English muffins have been my favorite way to use it but these sourdough pancakes may be a close second. Check out the recipe below and let me know if you give them a try. Ingredients For the … Read more
This was my first year growing buttercup squash and it did wonderfully. We were able to harvest about 20 squash from just two plants. I would call that pretty prolific! Buttercup squash is a winter squash weighing between 3-5 lbs. It has a hard, green skin and tender, orange flesh. Since it … Read more
If you’ve been following along here for any length of time, you know we had a bumper crop of tomatoes this year (and I’m hoping for the same this fall). When we couldn’t keep up with the tomatoes that we were growing, I started freezing them in gallon size bags. The plan … Read more
There always comes a time to focus on preserving the harvest. You can freeze tomatoes for making sauce later on, freeze pesto and even making refrigerator pickles. With your cucumbers lately and I decided to try my hand at making refrigerator pickles – a good example recipe to check out is Martha … Read more
This week’s recipe is all about those black bananas that you have sitting on your counter. I buy, on average, eight bananas a week. Some weeks we eat all eight and some weeks we don’t touch any of them. On the weeks that we don’t touch them, I usually freeze a couple … Read more
One thing that I strive for as we embrace the urban homesteading life is to make more food from scratch. I want to buy less processed, readymade food. I want to buy more whole ingredients and create delicious meals and snacks. We already do most of our eating at home and I … Read more