by Texas Homesteader ~
My Jalapeno-Cheese Biscuit recipe makes soft, moist and lightly spicy biscuits – just the way we like it!
Snappy Jalapeno-Cheese Biscuit Recipe
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Category Archives: Recipes & Cooking
Using It All: MYO Tomato Powder
by Texas Homesteader
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Recently I had a large quantity of tomatoes to preserve. In the process of making my sauce I removed most of the seeds and tossed them into my compost before I even cooked the tomatoes down.
When the tomatoes were cooked I used a sieve to separate the cooked tomatoes from the skins so I would have smoother sauce.
Now I read somewhere that instead of throwing them away you can dehydrate the skins and grind them into powder to use to thicken soups or make your own tomato paste.
Oh yeah, I’m *SO* gonna do that!
Preserving The Harvest: Dehydrating Fresh Cabbage
by Texas Homesteader ~
Early spring is a great time to pick up cabbage for cheap. But you want to make sure you go through it all while it’s fresh.
There are several ways we enjoy cabbage, but I also dehydrate it to enjoy for months.
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How To Pressure-Can Homemade Pasta Sauce
by Texas Homesteader ~
I decided I wanted to make and pressure-can my own pasta sauce. Homemade sauce means you have complete control over what goes in (and more importantly, what DOESN’T!)
I’d already used my fresh garden tomatoes to make homemade tomato sauce. Now I’ll turn some of it into flavorful pasta sauce. Check out how easy it is!
Preserving The Harvest: Making Tomato Sauce
Texas Homesteader ~
I came across a great deal recently on a large quantity of beautiful fresh tomatoes. So decided I would make them into homemade tomato sauce.
Tomato sauce is an ingredient I use quite a bit in my kitchen. And making these fresh tomatoes into tomato sauce was EASY!
Preserving The Harvest: Canning Asparagus
by Texas Homesteader ~
I grow asparagus in my garden each spring. But even if you’re buying it, asparagus is both fresher and less expensive when it’s in season. Wouldn’t you love to enjoy fresh asparagus throughout the year? Me too!
So I decided to preserve my fresh asparagus by canning it!
Preserving The Harvest: Dehydrating Bell Peppers
Texas Homesteader ~
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I’ve planted many bell pepper plants in my garden this year. But it’s still too early in the season for them to be producing. So I stumbled upon a great deal on bell peppers at the store recently. Yeah, I mean like 15 peppers for $0.99 kinda great deal! After I fainted and before I could catch a breath I grabbed up about 5 of them. Oh I suppose I could have grabbed more but I only wanted to buy what we would use.
Other than stuffed peppers (which RancherMan absolutely LOVES) I cook with bell peppers fairly often. Once I got home I found that I still had stuffed bell peppers in the freezer. Maybe I can just freeze them to use as an ingredient in my cooking? Hummm… my freezer space is pretty tight so there’s no room to chop & freeze them for later. What to do? I know – I’ll dehydrate them!
Easy Boneless Breaded Pork Chops Cooked Using The Power Of The SUN!
by Texas Homesteader ~
Well it looks like a sunshiny day and the wind will not be high. So I can’t think of a better reason to use my * Solar Oven
. I want to bake boneless, breaded pork chops – OUTSIDE!
It doesn’t matter if it’s going to be hot or cold outside. That’s because the outside temps don’t really affect the cooking with a solar oven. I’ve heard it said that ‘all you need is a shadow‘.
Summer or winter – as long as the sun is shining and the wind isn’t high enough to mess with the reflectors, solar oven cooking is a GO!
Today I think I’ll try my hand at baked pork chops…
