Note: This is an older recipe. We have since changed to a plant-based diet and love it. It's better for our health, all living and the planet. Cabbage is a great winter food, packed full of nutrients, and yummy in so many dishes. Two of our favourites are cabbage borscht and lazy cabbage rolls. ...
Hoar Frost and Rime Ice Beauty
Winter is often associated with the harshness of cold weather and the inconvenience of snow-covered streets. However, there is an undeniable beauty that comes with the season, particularly in the form of rime ice and hoar frost. These natural phenomena can transform the landscape into a glittering ...
Apfelrotkohl (Red Cabbage with Apples) Recipe
Apfelrotkohl (Red Cabbage with Apples), also called Rotkohl or Blaukraut, is a favorite side dish of ours. It is a traditional German recipe. We like to grow our own red cabbage and prepare the dish once the cabbage is harvested in the fall and there are lots of apples to go with it, too. Then I ...
Homemade Vanillekipferl
Vanillekipferl is one of our favorite homemade cookies. Bite into this yumminess and imagine you are in one of Vienna's coffee shops enjoying this special treat. Honestly, I have never been to one, I just always make my own vanillekipferl and enjoy them with friends and family. Vanillekipferl can ...
Garden Update – November 2014
Here we go, a garden update in November up north in Canada where snow has taken over the landscape. Where days are short and temperatures are cold. We are still gardening! November started with some bad weather forecast. So we prepared the garden for winter. We harvested what was left of yummy ...
Easy Seven in One Coffee Cake
The number seven represents wholeness, perfection, totality, and completion. Here too, I use the number seven not as an actual number but to show that there are many easy coffee cakes in this one recipe. How many? Well, however many your fantasy allows you to do. Baking cakes or making yummy ...
Turn a Garage Into a Food Production Place
Our urban home came with a huge old garage, a building that looks and is from a time passed long ago. I liked this building right away. While Anna loved the house, I saw lots of potential for this old building. Garage history We do not know how old this building is. While renovating it, I found an ...
Garden Update – October 2014
Every month during the growing season we do a garden update, and September has always been the last month to do a garden update. Not this year! Even though if you look at the September garden update, one would think with all the snow it was over already. Still, there is so much growing in our garden ...
Winter Growing in Zone 3
Winter gardening is growing food with some protection in the winter even under snow and temperatures down to zero. It is very cool and I am all for it. However, we live in an area where it is IMPOSSIBLE to grow a traditional winter garden outdoors :(. -40 degrees is just too cold. Too many growers ...
Chicken Coop Bedding
This summer we added chickens to our backyard homestead. Very exciting! As new chicken owners we want to keep our chickens as natural and healthy as possible; as northern chicken owners, we want to keep them as warm and dry as possible - it gets really cold here. We want to use the deep litter ...
