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Egg Noodles

08.20.2019 by thriftyhomesteader // Leave a Comment

homemade noodles

  Although noodles are not expensive to buy, they cost only pennies to make, and you can use your own organic eggs. They are also delicious and incredibly easy to make. These noodles make a great chicken soup when cooked with a stew hen. Feel free to double this recipe. However, you will probably have to split it up into two batches to roll out, depending upon how thick … [Read more...]

Categories // eggs, recipes

Gluten Free Crustless Quiche

07.30.2019 by thriftyhomesteader // 3 Comments

gluten free crustless quiche

Crustless quiche is one of our "fast food" recipes that we fall back on when we are too busy to cook. Within a few minutes, it can be in the oven where it requires no attention for 40 minutes. We've even served this to company with great results. I shared my spinach and goat cheese quiche recipe with you a few years ago, and you can easily substitute other vegetables and … [Read more...]

Categories // recipes

Indian Goat and Sweet Potatoes

10.11.2018 by thriftyhomesteader // 2 Comments

Although you can use goat meat in place of beef or pork in your usual recipes, I don't really like to do that. When I eat chili, for example, I expect it to taste like pork. If it tastes like goat, I just don't like it. I greatly prefer recipes that come from parts of the world where people eat goat regularly. And it makes sense that they would have figured out which spices and … [Read more...]

Categories // books, cooking, goats, recipes

Nigerian dwarf meat and Goat Goulash recipe

01.09.2018 by thriftyhomesteader // 7 Comments

Goat Goulash

We have fallen in love with goat meat all over again, and it's all because of a goat we called Horny Dude. Time for true confessions here. In the fall of 2016, a doe gave birth to a single buckling, and she was the only goat to give birth that fall. About a month later, I was teaching a goat class, and someone asked, "When are you going to disbud that goat?" I looked to where … [Read more...]

Categories // cooking, goats, recipes

Celebrating summertime with the best varieties of tomatoes

07.10.2017 by Janie Hynson // 4 Comments

Reading Epic Tomatoes by Craig LeHoullier took me back to my childhood and enjoying tomato sandwiches with my grandfather during the summertime. Though I've reviewed many books this year, this is one of the most delightful perhaps because of the many delicious-looking photos, descriptions, and the author's personal stories about different tomato varieties. LeHoullier even … [Read more...]

Categories // books, gardening, recipes, reviews

Make cream soup from scratch

01.16.2017 by thriftyhomesteader // 5 Comments

make cream soup

Baby, it's cold outside, and one of the best things for warming up on a cold day is a bowl of hot soup. For many people this means grabbing a can from the pantry, but there are plenty of good reasons to make your own soup from scratch. I promise it's not hard! All of my children knew how to make cream soups from scratch by their early teens. And it's not time consuming. … [Read more...]

Categories // cooking, recipes

Recipe: Ranch salad dressing

08.29.2016 by thriftyhomesteader // Leave a Comment

What do you do if you are concerned about food additives in prepared foods, but you don't have a ton of time to spend making things from scratch? Making your own salad dressing is actually one of the easiest ways to eliminate artificial ingredients from your diet. It takes less than 10 minutes to whip up a batch of ranch salad dressing, regardless of whether you're making it … [Read more...]

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