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I share how to homestead, garden, preserve, sourdough secrets, easy recipes from scratch, and how to make money blogging for multiple income streams. Building a community of like-minded people looking to learn how to follow a dream of wholesome food and a self-sustainable farm. Glad you are here!
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How to Make Ketchup from Scratch (With Fresh or Canned Tomatoes)
Once you try homemade ketchup, you’ll never go back to the bottle.This recipe is rich, tangy, and just sweet enough — made from scratch with…
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Recipes | Breakfast | Lunch | Preserving
Easy 3-Ingredient Jam (No Pectin!)
This 3-ingredient jam is one of the first “from-scratch” recipes I ever felt confident making no canning kit, no thermometer, just a saucepan and some fruit I needed to use up before it turned.
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Homemade Mayo (Creamy, Tangy & Ready in 1 Minute)
Forget the store-bought squeeze bottle. Once you taste homemade mayo, there’s no turning back.
It’s rich, creamy, and made with real food ingredients—no weird preservatives, no added sugar, and way more flavor. You can whip it up with a blender, food processor, or stick blender in under a minute, and it keeps beautifully in the fridge.
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Lemon Vinaigrette Dressing (5 Ingredients, So Fresh!)
There’s something about a homemade vinaigrette that just hits different — it’s lighter, brighter, and full of clean flavor without any weird preservatives or gums.
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How to Bake Sourdough Bread in a Cast Iron Skillet
When I first started baking bread from scratch, I didn’t have a fancy Dutch oven or expensive bakeware. But I did have my trusty 10-inch cast iron skillet…
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Simple Sourdough Bagels You Can Make in 1 Day!
Most sourdough bagels require an overnight rise. But let’s be real—not every day on the homestead (or in mom life) leaves room for that kind of timeline. So I created a shortcut recipe that still uses your bubbly starter, still gives you that classic bagel chew, and—bonus—you can make it start to finish in just one day.
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Sourdough Traditions
All your questions answered for you to be successful in baking fresh sourdough bread.
