What is a good way to store fats in your food preps? What are good fats to store for long-term stability? What oils work for long-term food storage? This post tackles the tricky issue of incorporating fats into a long(ish)-term food storage plan.
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6 Simple Tricks To Make Canning Easier
Six of my absolute best tricks to make my canning simpler, easier and more efficient – without sacrificing safety!
3 Easy Steps To The Juiciest Lemons Ever
It’s citrus season, which means a couple of things around here. One, any pretension of even halfass locavorism goes out the window. I’ll take all the citrus California, Texas and Florida can manage, please, for as long as they’ll ship it up to me. Two, I start going crazy making lemon curd, salt-preserved lemons and limoncello. (I also…
Top 20 Tips Every Gardener Should Know
I’ve handed out a lot of gardening advice in the 4+ years I’ve been writing here, but some tips are just so timeless I find myself coming back to them over and over. Here are 20 tips I think every gardener should know.
14 Easy Ways To Bring More Flavor To Your Food
There’s no magic to great cooking – but there are a few tricks. When you cook professionally, you’re always trying to find those little things that can help bump up the flavor of a dish. Here are 14 things that make my cooking better. I’d love to know your tips and tricks – if you’ve got something to…
How To Make and Freeze Guacamole
I was at the store to pick up milk before heading into the April Eat From The Larder Challenge and there was a screaming good deal on organic avocados. At $5 for 6 avocados I’ll admit I did sort of stock up. A dozen ripe avocados later, it was guacamole time. Even someone like me, a girl…