The Incredible Instant Pot

The Incredible Instant Pot

The Instant Pot is truly worth every penny and then some. It replaces many different pans and small appliances and allows you to cook, ferment, crock, steam, and boil all in one pot…Instantly!

Easiest Way To Cut Raw Chicken

Easiest Way To Cut Raw Chicken

Since freezing whole birds takes up a lot of room we often take whole birds and cut them into meal sized sections. Since we like smoking meats, they cook faster, in small pieces too.  Most accidents in the kitchen come from cutting with dull knives and cutting poultry is a real challenge so I am going to share an easy way to cut chicken bones.

Food Preservation

Food Preservation

Dear Neighbor, Now that you have decided to grow some of your food, have you decided how to preserve and store  it? There are three ways to “put up” food: drying, freezing or canning. Freezing is fast, easy and can keep much of your harvest tasting “fresh...
Boil Fresh Eggs

Boil Fresh Eggs

Frustrated with having farm fresh eggs but can’t boil eggs that peel? There is a secret. Look here…

Egg Storage

Egg Storage

      Dear Neighbor, While most of the neighborhood has an egg deficit, it seems my chicks are first cranking up; short days, cold weather, and all. The girls are not so much late bloomers as they were born late in the season, thus the flurry of...