Preserving at Home

Preserving can take on many forms. You can make pickles, kraut, or even dry age your rib roast. All of it is an old school preservation method of some kind. Here are some favorites.

Preserving at Home

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Curing Meat at Home, Farmhouse Recipes, Preserving at Home

How to Dry Age Beef at Home

One of the great ways to experience beef in all its potential is to dry age it. Simply put when you dry age beef, say steaks, a molecular transformation takes...Read More
Farmhouse Recipes, Preserving at Home

Pickling – The Basics

Pickling can be daunting. Our goal is take the fear out of it, so YOU TOO can pickle! Following is a comprehensive pickling recipe that is good for cucumbers, carrots, asparagus,...Read More
Curing Meat at Home, Farmhouse Recipes, Pantry, Preserving at Home

Everyday Pickling Spice

Making pickles is a lot easier than you think. In fact, pickling almost anything is a great, low-cost way to "control" your vegetables (organic, local etc.) without having to drop...Read More
Pantry, Preserving at Home

Hard Cider – From Tree to Bottle

What has become an annual tradition, this past October we had an apple pressing out at the farm. Kids helped pick and we all helped sort, clean, sanitize, press and...Read More
Pantry, Preserving at Home

Cider Pressing

Now this is the way to spend a beautiful fall day in the Pacific NW! We were blessed to be included in a cider pressing with this year's bumper...Read More
Family Dinner, Farmhouse Recipes, Happy Hour at Home, Pantry, Preserving at Home

Homemade Limoncello

Traditionally, Limoncello is a digestivo, an after-dinner liqueur to help with digestion and prepare us for dessert or post-dinner espresso. Very few people in the US, it seems, know of...Read More