Homestyle Cooking & Home Canning
Farm Fresh Fried Rabbit Recipe – Raising Rabbits
The cycle continues...breed rabbit...raise rabbit...butcher rabbit. Raising rabbits for meat is one of the easiest and most cost effective...
Canned Venison Recipes for the Crockpot
3 Crockpot Recipes for Canned Venison Now that deer hunting season is behind us for another year, it is time for me to pull out some of my...
Old Fashion Amish Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnamon Rolls with Caramel Icing The kids, grandchildren, and neighbors come running when they know I am making Amish Cinnamon Rolls! The...
Cooking with Honey – Peanut Butter Honey Spread
After the hives have been put to sleep for the winter, and the pollen has stopped running, it is time for us to reap the benefits of raising bees....
Moist Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Icing
Chocolate and Peanut Butter...two of my favorite things! A moist chocolate cake is a staple here on our homestead. Combine it with a cold glass of...
How to Cook Collard Greens – From Garden to Freezer
Easy Collard Greens Recipe It's the day I wait for all fall...that third frost that tells me my collard greens are sweet enough to harvest from the...
Old Fashioned Chocolate Pudding with Cocoa Powder
Grandma's Old Fashioned Chocolate Pudding Recipe I remember as a kid my mom always made pudding from scratch, and it wasn't until I was older before...
Old Fashion Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
Homemade Ice Cream. With three grandchildren around, I am all about making memories for them! One of those memories is Grandma's old fashion...
Old Fashion Chicken and Dumplings in a Crockpot
Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings With the weather turning colder, it is time to break out some of my all-time favorite old fashion recipes! ...
How to make pickles without canning
Dilly Sweet Refrigerator Pickles I have to admit I have never had much luck with making a good dill pickle that stays crispy like my Grandmother...
Canning Spaghetti Sauce – Step-by-Step Instructions
My Great Grandmothers canned spaghetti sauce recipe. We had a wonderful blessing this weekend; we were given four bushels of tomatoes! After being...
How to Make Ice Tea – Honey Lemon
My family's favorite ice tea. In South Carolina the temperature reached 101 yesterday. When it gets that hot, there is not much you want to do other...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.
