Recipes

When you plant hardneck garlic they will develop what is called a scape (flower stalk). This is a thick curly stalk in the center of the leaves. You’ll recognize the…

Capture the flavours of of the season with this easy to make rose petal syrup. This concentrate is ideal for making  pitchers of fruity lemonade. You can drizzle this rose…

I love fizzy drinks! The problem is most of them are filled with preservatives and unknown ingredients that don’t belong in our bodies. We’ve started making our own healthier beverages…

There’s nothing more comforting than a well stocked pantry. It’s even better when the jars you gaze upon were lovingly created from reliable  homestead recipes!  Start building up your preserving,…

Why not make your own brightly flavoured raspberry vinegar? It’s really easy and it tastes far better than the store bought varieties. You can use fresh or frozen berries making…

Vegetables in cake? Absolutely! If you like carrot cake or zucchini bread you’ll love this lovely, rich beetroot chocolate cake. It’s extremely moist and impossible to resist. Rest assured, it…

Capture the bright, fresh flavours of fruit & flowers and delight your palette with these six lovely recipes.  If you’d like to make your preserves shelf stable and store them,…

At our homestead we use cast iron and enamelled cast iron for all of our cooking. There really isn’t anything that you can’t cook in a well seasoned cast iron…

Rumtopf quite literally means rum pot. It is a traditional German method of preserving fruits of summer with sugar and strong rum. It is traditionally eaten around Christmas but if…

One perk when it comes to growing your own food is that you can gather some of those fruits, vegetables and even flowers from the garden and turn it into…