No one really wants to waste food, especially when you’re trying eat affordably. However, there are times when you just can’t face another meal of leftovers. I often avoid food burnout by sticking leftovers into the freezer the day the food is made. That way I can wait a week or...
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Recipes
Spaghetti Frittata
Recipe: Borscht (Russian Beet Soup)
Since we grew quite a few beets in our garden this year, I’ve been meaning to try making borscht, a hearty Russian beet soup. Today I spotted this recipe at simplyrecipes.com, and gave it my own tweaks changed it til it was barely recognizable. (I doubled the quantities below and ended up with enough...
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Book titles and food for thought
A lot of people assume from the title of my book that I feed my mega-family for $75 a week. Um, no. That would involve more beans than I’m willing to serve. The $75 a week on the cover of my book actually refers to a family of four. (Little-known publishing fact: many...
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3 recipes I bookmarked this week
To use my pumpkins: Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
To use my tomatoes: Slow Roasted Tomatoes
Too good to resist: Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Torte
What about you? Discovered anything yummy this week?
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Day 8: Recipe- Best Sandwich Evah
Our 9 hens are laying about 3 eggs a day so far. They’re young so they’re not in full swing yet, and I’m sure that figuring the per-egg cost would be distressing at this point. But we should be getting more eggs soon. Even now our 4 year old is...
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Almond Oat Bread
Makes: 2 loaves
This bread is slightly sweet and is wonderful eaten plain or toasted.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon yeast
1/4 cup warm water
2 cups boiling water
1 cup quick oats
2 tablespoons shortening, melted
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup sliced or slivered almonds
4-1/2 to 5 cups all-purpose or bread flour
Directions
Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup of warm water in a small...
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Video: Canning Tomatoes
A couple of you mentioned you’d like to see the process of canning tomatoes. Since I had some to process anyway, yesterday I got the camera rolling again.
Canning tomatoes the easy way from Mary Ostyn on Vimeo.
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In the comments on the grape jelly video, I showed some of the costs of jelly-making. ...
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Video: How to Make Grape Jelly
Every day people google ‘grape jelly‘ and end up here at the Owlhaven. I thought I’d add a video of the process to show you just how easy it is!
How to Make Grape Jelly from Mary Ostyn on Vimeo.
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How to: Freezing corn
This week we have devoted a few hours to freezing some of our abundant corn crop. It’s a fairly simple project, but after three people in two days asked me how we do this, I thought it might be worth offering a brief tutorial here.
Start by husking the corn and removing all the silks. ...
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3 recipes I bookmarked today
Smitten Kitchen: Lobster rolls
Karen Cheng: Heavenly Brownie Cake
Casual Kitchen: Split Top Butter Loaf (comment #1)
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