Four Ways to Make Coffee Without a Machine and Our Off-Grid Kitchen: Water

When we first arrived on our land we had three very basic needs that needed to be dealt with immediately:

Water
Waste management
Cooking

I remember those early days of our new homesteading adventure. It was October, the days were warm and the nights cool. Everything was so new and I think we were all in a bit of a state of shock after our cross country move to what looked like the set of a western movie.

We’re used to the cactus, cracked clay soil, and longhorns by now so I am talking about the nitty gritty of the most important part of…

Our Off-Grid Kitchen: Water

And in our off-grid kitchen, with our filtered rain water I make coffee a few times per week via one of these means…

Four Ways to Make Coffee Without a Machine

(There’s actually five if you check the comments. I forgot about iced coffee!)

Happy Monday, y’all!

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This weekend I came across a "splendid soups" magazine. When I first picked it up I wondered if I would find many useful recipes. Hours later I had bookmarked nearly half of them. Now I am hungry for nothing but soup, so this week it is on the menu four out of six days. I…

Homemade Refried Beans

We eat beans in one form or another on most days of the week. Black beans, lentils, pinto beans, red beans, garbanzo beans; you name it. I find them to be a great friend to the large family table on a budget. They are inexpensive but they can get boring or even hard to eat…

Food Roots – July 16: where does your food come from?

“Or what if I had simply grown up in a time when food was seasonal? When there was, in each year, a time of more and a time of less? When food was not just there in packages on the supermarket shelf all year?” ~ Jessica Prentice ~ Welcome to another edition of Food Roots!…

Menu Plan – mostly grain free

With it being busy garden/preserving season I have fallen behind on planning and preparing meals. This has meant more grains the past week or so, at least for the boys. They don’t mind, so I will keep soaked oats and millet on the menu at least for their breakfasts. For some reason my husband doesn’t…

Soaked, Flour-Free Oatmeal Pancakes

The US Wellness Meats giveaway is closed. I will choose a winner later on this week. When you buy 50 pounds of rolled oats and your family doesn’t want to eat soaked oatmeal every morning, then you’ve got to get creative. Enter the flour-free oatmeal pancake. These are simply rolled oats soaked overnight with a…

My Top Three Easiest Ferments (for when you’re barely treading water in the kitchen)

Since we moved off-grid and began a slower way of doing everyday tasks, I have struggled in the kitchen. I have struggled to keep up with dishes. I have struggled with fitting enough vegetables into my cooking and my budget. I have struggled to find a balance between foods with enough calories to fill up…

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