By Melissa Norris | Bread , Breakfast , Dessert , Recipes
This sourdough chocolate bread tastes like a fudgy brownie and cake combined, deliciously moist with depths of chocolate in every bite. The fermentation process gives the bread a great flavor depth heightening the chocolate with the perfect balance of sweet that had my kids devouring it one day, you might want to double the recipe! […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Breakfast , Recipes , Sides
This fried apples and onions recipe is about as old-fashioned and pioneer as you can get. Plus, apples bacon and onions is a wonderful fall trio of flavor. Who knew that apples and onions go together like peanut butter and jelly? Mother Wilder sure did. As a matter of fact, this dish was one of […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Bread , Breakfast , Healthy Snacks , Main Dish , Miscellaneous , Recipes , Sides
144 zucchini recipes, because let’s face it, zucchini is probably the most prolific summer vegetable in the garden. Do you have zucchini coming out your ears? Yeah, me too. It seems most families have one or two ways they cook zucchini and that’s about it. Michelle says “I grew up with it pan fried. That’s […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Breakfast , Dessert , Recipes
This easy blueberry cake recipe comes straight from Grandma’s kitchen. Michelle made a small adaptation from the original version, because this version only uses a natural sweetener, made straight from her homestead. From scratch cakes baked in cast iron, with a generations old recipe, and blueberries and maple syrup straight from the homestead makes this […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Bread , Breakfast , Healthy Snacks , Recipes
Pumpkin applesauce muffins are a must, because ’tis the season for pumpkins and applesauce and they play so nice together. And because I can grow both of those items here on our homestead. I may have a slight addiction to trying to grow as much as possible when it comes to an ingredient list, you […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Bread , Breakfast , Recipes
This buckwheat pancake recipe is not your ordinary pancake, and there is nothing quite like a weekend morning breakfast of hot-off-the-griddle pancakes. Especially when the batter can be made the night before, making these an overnight fermented pancake recipe. Score! Seriously, making pancake batter the night before makes cooking early in the morning a breeze. […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Bread , Breakfast , Recipes , Vintage
Ever wanted to learn how to make biscuits like great-grandma? This sour cream biscuit recipe is straight from the 1940’s, when folks knew how to stretch ingredients and what they had to make a meal. And, after all, who can resist a fresh-baked biscuit? Especially when there are so many ways to eat homemade biscuits: […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Breakfast , Recipes , Vintage
Traditional bannock is a centuries old recipe that can be made over the campfire. It’s also easy to make bannock in the oven, making this a versatile recipe to have in your arsenal. Who can say no to a quick biscuit bread that is easy to make, tastes delicious with a variety of toppings, and […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Breakfast , Cultured Dairy , DIY Recipes & Tutorials , Homestead-Life , Natural Medicine Cabinet , Podcast , Recipes , Skills
How to boost your immune system naturally with this old-fashioned food. An old-fashioned food that can support the immune system and improve your brain function is yogurt. Who would have thought, right? Well, us pioneer homesteaders knew it was good stuff. Listen to this post (just push play below) and all our episodes of the […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Breakfast , Frugal Living , Homestead-Life , Main Dish , Podcast , Recipes , Vintage
The Depression Era defined a nation and we can take the tips from folks who went through hard times to stretch our own food budgets and live more frugally. These are recipes handed down from my family from generation to generation and now from me to you. I hope these tips are as helpful for […]
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