Bone Broth: A Homesteader’s Liquid Gold

Bone Broth: A Homesteader’s Liquid Gold

Food Preservation, Recipes
Bone broth has made a resurgence in recent years for its numerous health benefits, to the extent of being termed "liquid gold", but to me, it's mostly just an amazing base for the perfect soup... and we eat a lot of soup, hence the need for lots of amazing broth! I haven't gotten to the point of drinking a glass straight, but I'm sure this stuff would be as good of any to start with! We posted this week on our Instagram that we had suddenly run out of the first batch of broth we did following the butchering of our first pig in December. So our roughly 30 quarts of broth lasted us nearly 4 months! I know lots of people who aren't huge fans of soup, but for…
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Fermented Garlic

Fermented Garlic

Food Preservation, Recipes
Until that day that we can source all our food straight from our garden, we are huge Costco addicts. Buying in bulk is more economical, and we are blessed in our region to have many organic and non-gmo options for produce! The problem with buying in bulk is that often the food goes bad before you have a chance to use it all! This has been the case with buying the whole bulbs of garlic. We do our best to eat what we have and not waste anything, so when I needed more garlic this week, I decided to peel and ferment half the bag of garlic rather than wait until they're mushy and unusable. It's probably a lot more work to peel each clove, and I'm aware that Costco…
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