The first time that I canned meat, I was nervous; I won't lie to you. Pressure canning meat feels intimidating, and you don't want to do it wrong. No one wants to make their family sick, and images of ...
How to Pressure Can Soup for Home Canners
Opening a jar of homemade soup on a cold fall evening is one of my favorite pleasures, and it makes all of the work of pressure canning soup worth it. Canned soup that you purchase in the store will ...
23 Easy yet Delicious Beginner Recipes for the Inexperienced Cook
“Oh no!”, I shouted as the flames rose from my stove. I was expecting my then-boyfriend (who turned into my husband) to be at my apartment any minute for dinner. The only problem was I didn’t know ...
13 Best Cooking YouTube Channels to Learn Vital Cooking Skills
Facts are facts. If you can’t cook, you won’t be able to make it in a self-sufficient lifestyle. Why? Because food requires preparation. You can’t be self-sufficient yet living on processed ...
22 Mouth-Watering Goat Recipes to Introduce You to Tasty Goat Meat
There are a variety of animals, from small to large, you can raise on your homestead to provide enough meat for yourself or your family. Some of the popular animals to raise for meat are rabbits, ...
28 Resourceful Ways to Use Bacon Grease Around the Kitchen
Bacon. It’s hard not to love it, but what do you do with the extra gift bacon provides? Yes, I’m talking about the bacon grease. Please don’t tell me you toss it in the garbage because there ...
How To Make The Easiest Fermented Pickles Ever
The first year I grew a large vegetable garden, I spent most of my summer days hauling in laundry baskets full of cucumbers. It was thousands of pounds of food that only amounted to only a few hundred ...
5 Steps to Storing Bacon Grease for Future Baking Uses
Name three things which make you say, “Yum!?” For me, it would be cookies, a good cup of coffee, and bacon. I love the sweet, the salty, and the caffeine. You don’t even want to know me before I’m ...
Potting and Jugging in Food Preservation: What Are They and How You Can Do It
Are you someone who likes to learn all kinds of survival techniques and food preservation methods? If you are, I’m going to bring you two historical food preservation methods known as potting and ...