As we continue our transition to off-grid living I am constantly thinking of ways to live without electricity in the kitchen. Right now I have no idea what a challenge this will be, but I am trying to move towards more sustainable food preparation methods.
I am sharing some of my favorite electricity-free kitchen appliances over at the Plan to Eat blog. Head on over to find out what they are and to share any that I missed that you find useful.
This little cookbook shelf is tucked into a corner of the kitchen whose counters are currently housing gallons and gallons of turnip ferments. This is, of course, near the dirty dishes awaiting their run through the sink and the basket of eggs brought in by little hands just last night. While I’m not much of a…
It wasn’t until I started to explore more fruits and vegetables a few years ago that I discovered the versatility of sweet potatoes. Growing up I only knew the refined sugar covered yam casserole served at Thanksgiving. Come to think of it, I usually passed it up. After playing around with them a bit, we…
When we started our little homestead one of the things we decided was to just start with a couple of acres. We knew it would take us some time to really put those two acres to use and nearly five years later that was one of the few things we were actually right about. Those…
The door to our little cabin opens right into the kitchen. From that door you see the barbed wire that lines the front of our two acres. Beyond that barbed wire is our dirt road that blows dust into every crevice in our kitchen when it’s dry and is as slick as ice when it…
After a busy weekend that left the house in shambles I need a few easy meals this week so that I can get caught up on spring cleaning. I’m not complaining, though. I was able to spend a couple of hours digging, weeding and planting cabbage, kale, swiss chard and lettuce yesterday. I am sun…
It has taken me some time, but I am very happy to say that the mini cookbook I’ve been working on is now finished. This book of gluten-free, dairy-free, starch-free, gum-free, and rice-free recipes is near and dear to our family table and I look forward to sharing it with you all… and for FREE, for a short period of time.
