DIY

How to Can Chicken Soup at Home

9 February 2012

Home canning is enjoying a well-deserved resurgence in recent years, and that leaves a lot of people looking for information on how to can and preserve food at home. While there are foods that can be canned using the fairly basic water bath method, when it comes to recipes that contain low acid foods, meat, [...]

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How to Make and Preserve Homemade Sauerkraut

21 September 2011

If you have never had homemade sauerkraut, you are missing a true delight. Not only is it delicious, it is also incredibly easy to make at home. To begin, start with whole heads of cabbage, preferably with healthy dark green leaves still intact. I am starting with three heads of cabbage weighing about four pounds [...]

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How to Collect and Save Basil Seed

2 September 2011

It is quite simple to save basil seed once you know what you’re looking for.  The seeds are tiny and easily missed but when you have seen basil seed collected you will be ready to do it yourself in no time. This year we have really enjoyed our lemon basil plant. It has added some [...]

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How to Make the Perfect Iced and Frozen Coffee at Home

27 August 2011

After years of spending too much, I’ve finally arrived at the perfect way to make delicious iced and frozen coffee drinks at home.

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The Potato Condo

26 April 2011

Our potatoes have their own condo. Can you dig it?

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The Secret Revealed!

16 February 2011

It didn’t take long for several of you to know exactly what I was up to in yesterday’s Super Secret Recycling Project so I wanted to share a bit more in today’s post. After cutting up the first shirt as I showed yesterday and winding it into a ball, all that was left was teaching [...]

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The Super Secret Recycling Project

15 February 2011

Why would anyone take a perfectly good shirt and reduce it to a pile of scraps?  Take a look at these photos and see if you can figure out what I am up to. For starters let me say that the shirt is part of an outdated uniform and carried a retailer’s logo. For that [...]

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