It has been five years since we embarked on our plant-based journey, initially motivated by health concerns. Doubts loomed over our ability to sustain this lifestyle as described here, but today, we can confidently say that plant-based eating has brought us simplicity, delicious meals, and numerous ...
Whole-Food Plant-Based
Whole bean home made soy milk recipe
This whole bean homemade soy milk recipe is the simplest way to make soy milk. The nice thing about it is that the whole bean gets used, there are no leftovers. If you don't know what to make with okara (soy pulp), but hate to throw away perfectly good food, this recipe is for you. Growing up on ...
Yellow Split Pea Stew Recipe
The yellow split pea stew recipe is a great dish for busy times. Either make ahead for a weekend and have a big pot full of filling goodness ready for mealtimes, or serve in different versions on weekdays. Cooking time The Stew, or Dall, since we are using dried pulses, is very versatile. Make ...
Steamed Buns in Stew Recipe
Traditional dishes that we grew up with have a special place in our memories. Today I'm sharing with you one of my favorite childhood meals. My mom always called it strudeln, not the same as german apple strudels though. The strudelln I'm talking about are steamed buns, however again not the same as ...
Grow What You Eat and Eat What You Grow
Gardening is a craft that brings a lot of joy, fun, and fulfillment. It inspires our natural desire to create and provide for ourselves. You can grow what you eat and eat what you grow. If you put into it some thoughts, it can replace your grocery shopping altogether. Wow! Do you want to grow what ...
Summer Vegetable Curry Recipe Year Round
With this summer vegetable curry recipe, we want to demonstrate how ‘growing what you eat and eating what you grow’ can work year-round. It is one of our favorite plant-based dishes that we can make mainly from homegrown and/or home-preserved ingredients. Serve it with rice or noodles. Why grow ...
Organizing a chest freezer with plant food
Growing our own food and preserving it for the winter is a big part of what Northern Homestead is about. We preserve food in 5 different ways, and one of them is freezing. Organizing a chest freezer with plant food can be a bit different from a freezer full of store-bought foods. Everything in our ...
Canning Dried Beans
Beans are a big part of a whole-food plant-based diet. The easiest way to have them available is by canning dried beans. Since we have a glass cooktop, we do all our canning on it. Here is how we pressure can dried beans on a glass cooktop. It works great for us, take what you like and leave what ...
Cookbooks to Start a Plant-Based Diet
We switched to a plant-based diet a few years ago and have never looked back. Eating healthy tastes good feels good and is good all around. We are sometimes being asked if it was hard for us to change to a plant-based diet. Our answer is 'no' and it has two reasons: For one, we are ...
Animal-Free Homestead
Update: This animal-free homestead article was written 2 and a half years ago (2019) a bit over a year after we started our journey on a plant-based diet. I call it a journey since we had no idea where it would take us. We thought it was just about what was on our plate to eat. Soon we realized it ...
