Pocahontas County Fare

The whole "If your Great-grandma wouldn't recognize it as food, don't eat it" seems to assume great-grandmas with limited ...

2011 was a sadly inauspicious year for trees on our ridge. The stag-horn sumac trees did not fare well in the summer, and this happened i...

Tee-Ernte und Produktion in Doi Mae Salong, Nordthailand - YouTube : I don't know why I favor tea. I feel vaguely un-American when b...

I aim to stay away from the highly processed foods of modern life. I have every intention to eat plain foods cooked at home, and here on Dro...

I made a peach pie day before yesterday, using frozen pie filling I made last summer from this very peach, and several dozen others much l...

Because I've been on an early 20th century bender with my grandma's postcard collection, my old home town, and World War I cookboo...

While "googling" for a recipe recently, I ran across a collection of public domain cookbooks, including: More Recipes For Fifty b...

I love recipes, especially unusual cooking projects. That's why I've saved these reverences on homebrewed biodiesel, even though I d...

About 10 years ago, someone made me an apple cake. I've been looking for the recipe ever since, and this year, with an abundance of app...

Speaking of "how-to" Web sites, I just happened across this blog: A Year of Crock Potting--A New Year's Resolution to use the ...

Another Recycling Idea: Our neighbor made a small gazebo out of an old satellite dish. It's just large enough to keep the rain off a sm...

I picked the last cabbage from our garden for cole slaw last week. These red cabbages made small but tasty heads. It was the vivid color t...

I've tried making sourdough bread starter several times, following several different recipes, with limited success. A few weeks ago, I s...

The warm weather and the school vacation have given me the chance I needed to start seeds for our garden. Last year, I ordered heirloom gar...

For years, I made muffins every Sunday morning. They were cheap, quick, and easily varied, depending on what ingredients I had on hand. Thes...

A few weeks ago, I was grocery shopping near the Interstate, where they get those city groceries, and I bought a package of pita bread. It w...

Potatoes are not prized for their flowers. I thought this bud was rather handsome, but it (and all the others) aborted without even opening...

We finally got the garden out last week. I'd blogged about my tomato seeds in April, and I got a very good germination rate from the S...

Last week a neighbor gave us a grocery bag full of rhubarb--that is, the swollen rhubarb petioles, the part we eat. (Celery is the only othe...

These are the recipes I've worked out for my own personal yogurt making, to go along with the tips and advice in yesterday's post. ...