Pickled eggs are one of those foods that I avoided for many years. Even when our chickens first started producing an abundance of eggs, the idea of brined and salty eggs was simply unappealing. Granted, I never actually tried a pickled egg but I had already made up my mind. Fast forward a few years […]
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Pickles are so much more than cucumber spears! While we love cucumber pickles, there are many other types of pickled food including eggs and vegetables. Many of these pickled food recipes are popular around the world and are a great way to use you ingredients fresh from your garden. In this guide, we’ll share some
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Pickling is one of my favorite ways to use the food coming out of my garden and in my kitchen. Simple picking is so easy and takes just a few minuted. I love making these pickled bean sprouts (also called Dua Gia) and find them the perfect addition to make dishes or of course eat
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Dairy, or milk, is one of the basic ingredients in the kitchen that can made into a wide variety of different types of food. Some of my favorite things to make from dairy include cheese, yogurt, butter and of course ice cream. There are several specific processes that can be used to make dairy products
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Cheesemaking was one of the kitchen skills that intimidated me for many years. Compared to baking bread, preserving food and making my own maple syrup, making my own cheese felt complicated. It wasn’t until I started getting milk from my goats and I had an adundance of milk that I first decided to try my
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Ricotta cheese is one of the simplest and easiest cheeses to make at home. If you are just starting in the world of cheese making and culturing dairy, I recommend ricotta as one of your first recipes. In this article, we’ll share exactly how to make ricotta cheese from whey or milk. In addition to
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Most people keep a few baking extracts in their kitchen like vanilla and almond, but did you know that you can make many different cooking and baking flavors right in your kitchen with just a few minutes of actual work time and some patience. I’ve been making my own extracts for years now and will
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Experimenting with homemade extracts fun and easy, and making your own extracts is an easy and less expensive way to bring a huge range of flavors to your baking. After learning to make my own vanilla extract, I started branching out to other extracts including cinnamon. This is the perfect addition to cinnamon rolls and
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One of my favorite ways to use our maple syrup is to make maple extract. This is an easy way to take the delicious flavor of maple and make it into an easy flavoring to add to baked goods and glazes. It is possible to substitute maple syrup for maple extract, but for baking purposes,
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Did someone say lemon cake? Nothing says summer like the flavor of lemon and one of the easiest ways to bring the flaor of lemon into your baked goods is through making your own lemon peel extract. This extract is easy to make and is a great way to use up some of the lemon
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