Ham Soup: a frugal meal on my homestead
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Today, I bought a ham, with bone in, for just $10. Now that is a good price, here in Canada, but even better when I think about how many meals that I’m going to get out of it.
Mak
What to do with Swiss Chard when you don’t like it sautéed?
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After lots of searching, I finally found a recipe for Swiss Chard that was not a sauté: using it as a wrap! Brilliant.
The Contents
First, pressure cook
Cooking with home-canned pears
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Preparing the Pears
Let’s get started:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 F
2. Butter (heavily) baking pan. I chose to use my large cast iron pan, to bake the pear crumble
3. I op
A ”this and that” soup from scratch
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You know that PEAR CRUMBLE that I made today?
Well, rather than scrubbing out all the residue of the sweet batter in the pot, I just used it “as is” for my homemade soup.
I thought it would
Cooking like grandma means cooking from scratch
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My grandmother, the one that I knew, had a family of twelve to feed on a daily basis.
And - she did it in the 1920’s and beyond. Just imagine that.
Now, I don’t remember
Goal: to have a pantry full of foods to provide you for the next 6-12 months or so (ex. from harvest season to harvest season)
2 Inexpensive strategies
1. Buy one more: when doing your weekly shopping, instead of one set of supplies for a meal, (a