Homesteading Goals for 2017 Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. For our family, it’s a way of life on our little 1/4-acre in the middle of suburbia. While there is still a lot we rely on others for, there is a lot we can do for ourselves. Through gardening, food preservation, and a lot of …
Have you ever tried a recipe just because it pushes you out of your culinary comfort zone? I plan on doing a lot of that this year, and its all thanks to the Food In Jars Mastery Challenge. Each month, I will be participating in a culinary challenge. Something that builds on the food preservation …
Our visit to The Walpack Inn is part of the new travel section on Happily Homegrown where we will share our favorite restaurants, venues, and attractions. I was not compensated for this trip, and all opinions are based on my own experiences. Today is my wonderful husband’s 40th birthday – New Year’s Eve! Its always so hard …
I’ve been wanting to make homemade panettone for years, but was always intimidated by stories that this slightly sweet, eggy, Italian raisin bread took days to make. Who has time for that? So I stuck with mediocre store bought varieties. That was until this year. Homemade panettone doesn’t have to be labor intensive. It doesn’t …
My husband is a meat and potatoes kinda guy. He doesn’t like pasta or rice (he refers to it as “fluffy white nothing”), and there is no way he’d ever eat a sweet potato with dinner. Fried. Mashed. Grilled. Baked. Roasted. If it is a potato, he will eat it (well, except for potato salad, …
