Haphazard Homestead

Our weekend didn't turn out at all like we expected.  We had planned a nice visit here at home with my sister and brother-in-law on Satu...

This coming week is spring break for Kat.  We were supposed to be on a mini-vacation out of town all week, but more snowy weather and a work...

Here's another "real food" soup that only has two ingredients (not counting water), but packs LOTS of flavor. I used some ha...

Get ready for this.  A flavorful soup with just two ingredients (okay, three if you count the water), that's good for you (mmm...that bo...

On the table... The 30-Year Old Cooking Virgin's Skillet Basil Cream Chicken on Valentine's Day, Paula Deen's Southern Fried ...

Chinese New Year is Sunday, February 10.  This week will feature three Asian-style recipes you can make this weekend. ********* Admit i...

I haven't done a weekly dinner menu on the blog in a long time, so I thought I'd do that this morning.  All the turkey leftovers are...

While I can eat chili any time of the year, it wasn't what I had set out to make for supper last Saturday.  My original intent was to ma...

If stored properly, heads of garlic can last a good, long time, possibly from one season to the next.  This is the situation we found oursel...

We finally harvested the cabbage growing in Kat's garden bed.  It grew from a seedling she brought home from school earlier this spring ...

Lest you think I'm only into healthy, cultured food around here, allow me to present this: Serve with a nice veggie salad to assuage...

In my slow, but ongoing, series of posts about fermented foods , today I want to write about milk kefir (pronounced keh-FEAR, or sometimes K...

Shane and I decided to take the camper out again, just the two of us, while Kat was with her mom for the weekend.  It's been a few years...

This is another recipe inspired by something our friend John made and served to us.  He makes a dish of sauteed chicken breast chunks s...

I mentioned in my previous post comments that I learned how to make Cowboy Potatoes by watching our friend John make them.  The method i...

By now you know I like to cook and that I try to steer my family and myself away from a lot of junk foods and pre-packaged convenience foods...