Onions are a great vegetable, easy to grow, stores well, and they are just so healthy. I know, some recipe books do not even include fresh onions anymore. Powders and artificial spices are taking the onions over. Sad, isn't it? There is nothing as good as fresh onions, fried until golden - yummy. ...
Garden update – September 30, 2013
The growing season is over - frost is here. However, there is still lots going on in the garden and greenhouse. We are not giving up just yet. Plants react very differently to frost (you can read more about it here), so even though there is frost we are still growing. The peas that I planted in ...
A Great Way to Freeze Carrots
I usually realize just how delicious homegrown carrots are when we run out of them, so we try to grow and preserve as much as we can. Carrots keep well in bags in the fridge for about 3 months. They also keep well in the ground covered for winter. See how to grow winter carrots. Carrots also ...
How to make Homemade Sauerkraut the Simple Way
How to make homemade sauerkraut the simple way, or one could also call it the poor man's way. It is a great way to start with fermentation. The result is a great-tasting sauerkraut that will make you want to make more. What is homemade sauerkraut Real homemade sauerkraut is raw, fermented, and ...
Our garden at friend’s farm
We have been growing a garden at friend's farm for many years, and we're very thankful for the opportunity. Over the years we kind of figured out how much we need of something, like one row of potatoes or one third of a row of carrots. But how many potatoes is a row? So, this year we started to make ...
Garden update – August 30, 2013
Summer is almost over and with it the garden season. Once again, we are thankful for all that has grown and ripened - delicious, homegrown garden goodies. Even though we already had our first frost warning, the frost thankfully did not come to our town. Right now the forecast looks really good, so ...
Garden update – July 25, 2013
You probably have heard the saying that foods that look like body parts are good for those body parts. Like walnuts and brain, or celery and bones. Not sure if it is true, but recently my hubby talked a lot about beans. He even asked me to make the very same bean soup that he had asked me kindly ...
Whole grain Rollkuchen or Krebli
Rollkuchen or also called Krebli is a very traditional deep-fried food. The recipe comes from somewhere in Western Europe and is very popular with Mennonites. Krebli is rich food and messy to prepare, but so, so good. In the summer they are traditionally served with watermelons - hmm yummy. Or in ...
The Weather we are dealing with
It is a beautiful morning here. Blue sky, enjoyable warm; a good summer day. But, check this out, something is wrong here isn't it? I mean it is July 11th, its mid summer and tonight the temperature has been forecasted to go down to 4 degrees Celsius. Yep that is very close to freezing. One ...
Garden Update – June 26, 2013
In last year's June garden update I said that June seems to be the most challenging month for gardening: cold, wet, and lots of weeds. Well, I still think that last year's garden was doing better than this year's. We have had more rain than our land could bear. So many in our area have lost ...
