Recipe – Pizza Dough (Regular Crust)

Simple as that. And less than a minute. Pizza Dough (Regular Crust) CourseBreads CuisineItalian Ingredients 3 1/2cups bread flour 1 tsp sugar 1envelope instant dry yeast 2 tsp kosher salt 1 1/2cup water 110 degrees f 2tbsp olive oil Instructions Combine the bread flour, sugar, yeast and kosher salt in the bowl of...

Recipe – Gluten Free Quinoa Patties

One of my all-time favorite things to make are these gluten free quinoa patties. Several years ago, while attending one of our local “crunchy girl” parties, a friend of mine made these and I just had to have the recipe. With our diet beginning...

How to Create Concrete Footings

We’ve spent weeks getting our garage foundation as perfect as possible, right down to the concrete footings. This process has taught us so much about building your own home, and in this article we want to explain what we did to set our entire...

Recipe – Water Bath Canning “Pasta Sauce”

  Preserving Method: Water Bath Canning Makes about 7 (16 oz) pints or 3 (32 oz) quarts Full Recipe YOU WILL NEED 20 lb tomatoes (about 60 medium) 1 cup chopped onion (about 1 large) 8 cloves garlic minced 1 Tbsp olive oil 1/4 cup finely minced, fresh basil ¼ tsp Ball® Citric Acid...

Foods for Emergency Situations

We have been covering a host of different disasters and scenarios for preps.  One thing we have not mentioned is the need for food in these situations that meet the challenge of the disaster.  What are we talking about here?  For starters, we need...

How to Survive on the Sea

On September 24, 2018, the Jakarta Post reported how an Indonesian teen (19), Aldi Novel Adilang, had been drifting in the sea for 49 days since July 14. Aldi worked on a fishing boat, known as a rompong, lighting lamps to attract fish. But the...