Category: Cooking

Off-Grid Ways You Can Use A Fresh Pumpkin This Fall

Off The Grid News

Some posts may contain affiliate links. Off-Grid Ways You Can Use A Fresh Pumpkin This Fall Fall is pumpkin season. Time for jack-o-laterns, pumpkin spice lattes, and pumpkin pie.  However, they can be used for so much more! I like pumpkin pie, but really how many pies can you eat?!  Off the Grid News provides …

Continue reading

Cowboy Biscuits – Recipe and Instructions

Cowboy Biscuits – Recipe and Instructions Cowboy biscuits are a popular survival food. They became a trail staple in the days of long trips across the prairies because the ingredients required little space and they could be made without the typical fresh ingredients. See the recipe and the instructions at the featured link below from …

Continue reading

18 Homemade Meal Mixes That Should Be In Your Pantry

Some posts may contain affiliate links. 18 Homemade Meal Mixes That Should Be In Your Pantry Many cook using mixes adding a bit of this and that to make it their own. Not everyone begins as a scratch cook, nor should they be. Scratch cooking is time consuming. Many of those who are the primary …

Continue reading

5 Easy Ways To Preserve Food Without Electricity

Some posts may contain affiliate links. 5 Easy Ways To Preserve Food Without Electricity The most likely utility to be down after any crisis event is electricity, It can be taken out via rain or wind storms, an EMP,  traditional bombs, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes and flooding etc..  No matter the disaster, we will still require …

Continue reading

Cooking Hosta

Cooking Hosta Hosta has been eaten in other countries for years. Most places in North America consider hosta a decorative plant and it is found in yards and ornamental gardens. It’s actually a vegetable with a taste similar to asparagus. Just like any food, knowing how to cook it is an important aspect of making …

Continue reading

5 Ways To Freeze Zucchini

5 Ways To Freeze Zucchini Zucchini is a great backyard garden crop. It’s an easy crop to grow for new gardeners, it has a long growing season, and it usually creates a large yield. New gardener or pro, this is good news for eating the rest of the year. Zucchini is great for baked goods …

Continue reading

40+ Edible Flowers and How to Use Them

40+ Edible Flowers and How to Use Them

Some posts may include affiliate links. 40+ Edible Flowers and How to Use Them Food security is always a concern, or it should be even in times of prosperity. Knowing what around you that is edible is always important as tomorrow can never be for told. What today is a novel edible garnish could be …

Continue reading

Home Canning Meatballs (With Recipe)

Home Canning Meatballs (With Recipe) Canning meat can be an option to storing protein in ways other than jerking or salt curing.  This meatball recipe also gives you the convivence of canned and the goodness of homemade. See the recipe and the canning instructions from The Iowa Housewife at the featured link below Home Canned …

Continue reading

Post Apocalypse Rat Jerky

Post Apocalypse Rat Jerky

Post Apocalypse Rat Jerky If I am to be honest, post or pre-Apocalypse, the idea alone of eating rat turns my stomach, I am not so foolish as to say never however, because I understand that we may all do things including eating things that we are not now prepared to do if the world …

Continue reading

12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk

12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk

12 Reasons to Store Powdered Milk   The expressions “Got Milk?” or “Milk builds strong bones” are well known in north American countries. But if like me, you don’t drink milk nor have small growing children, should you still store a large quantity of milk? Yes! There are so many other uses for milk.  I …

Continue reading