Food and Drink Recipies

To go along with our desire for more natural self-reliance – we have experimented with old grandmother approved canning. We also use fermenting and dehydrating to preserve our resources.

With fermentation, naturally, alcohol would come with that – Since we have bees, that means mead!

This is a collection of our learnings and recipes we have found work well for us.  The web is a great source for recipes, and we give credit where possible to the original author.

Garlic Scape Pesto

May 30, 2021

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We discovered garlic scapes last year after coming across them at the farmer’s market in Corvallis. A scape is the top of a hardneck variety garlic blub. This variety of garlic is grown in colder climates and differs from the usual softneck varieties you get from the supermarket. hardneck garlic is characterized by bulb cloves

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Tagine Cooking

March 17, 2021

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We’ve off and on worked on eating a more plant-based diet like a Mediterranean Diet with mixed success. While we like it – it’s easy to slip back into the regular American diet with a ton of red meat and sugar. I’m getting older, and fatter, and need to really consider getting back on the

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Cranberry Mead

February 14, 2021

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I’ve still been brewing, but I’ve slowed down a little. We had a ton of mead in bottles and needed to drink some down to avoid buying more bottles! Some of the earliest brews have aged over a year and turned out quite well. Our strategy is to set at least one bottle aside and

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