During Black Friday sales on Amazon I scored this fabulous cast iron bread cloche! This thing is awesome! It looks small (only 7” diameter) but makes a perfect loaf of bread! Bread is getting expensive so off on an adventure and I e found the perfect recipe for easy bread! I seasoned the bread cloche … Continue reading Bread! Yummy!
We love our electric turkey cooker. It makes a fabulous turkey! With the holidays it gets a lot of use! but it has so much potential for other uses as well! Well worth the purchase! 2023 Christmas dinner … it even makes a nice brown roasted skin and the dripping are used for broth and … Continue reading How to use an electric turkey cooker for other things… and some other helpful tips and kitchen tools.
There is a trick to home canning green tomatoes, that I found by accident, if you want to fry green tomatoes this winter and not have them a falling apart soggy mess! It is the season (early fall) to grab those green tomatoes off the vine and put them up for a winter and spring … Continue reading How To Can The Best Green Tomatoes and What To Do With Them
We used a lot of jewel weed as kids to combat poison ivy. It grows almost everywhere in the US along creek banks and funny enough is often found growing next to … yep you guessed to it… poison ivy! Jewel weed salve has been an amazing relief for my itchy skin problems as I … Continue reading Jewel weed salve
I've looked at grinding mills for some time now but they are super expensive! I want one to use as a teaching aid for kids at a pioneer museum we volunteer at during the summer. So after a bit of online research, I decided if the American Indians of old and Latino population of old … Continue reading Pioneer style grinding mill experiment (and a bonus kitchen tool) made from garden rocks!
It's awesome to have friends! I just have to state that right up front because tonight's dinner is brought to you by several of my friends! Read on to find out more 🙂 So first off a shout out to my friend "the grizz" who is not only a fabulous artist but master sauerkraut maker! … Continue reading Toaster Oven, Homemade, Individual, Sauerkraut Casserole
I've made this recipe for many years in a crock pot... but once I got my instant pot the old crock pot was quickly donated to goodwill along with the rice cooker and several other kitchen gadgets that my lovely instant pot replaced! The family loves this particular dinner and it's really best if you … Continue reading Mushroom gravy and steak instant pot rewrite of an old family favorite!
If you are a regular reader of Conestoga Chuck you know that we Home cook all the pup's meals 🙂 and that even tho we leave out a bowl of commercial dry kibble in case they get the munchies... they rarely ever touch it. Now with this new method I can say they have refused … Continue reading Homemade dog food update and a new kitchen gadget for the humans!
Yes you heard me right! Grocery shopping at the dollar store! Seriously if you haven't done this yet you really need to give it a try! Today I'm making toaster oven pizza with some yummy dollar store items I found. Everything for $1! Two small pizza crusts that fit the toaster oven just perfect! Now … Continue reading Grocery shopping at the dollar store? Say what!?!?!
The wind is blowing like crazy today! If it wasn't for the wind then it would have been a beautiful day! But since it's so cold.. it's soup for dinner tonight! Yep another instant pot recipe! With a toaster oven recipe on the side lol So beef barley soup isn't hard to make at all, … Continue reading It’s cold! So beef barley mushroom soup and biscuits for dinner tonight!
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