POSER HOMESTEAD
SWISS CHARD AND MUSHROOMS
I'm buried in Swiss Chard. It's time to eat some greens! I love this, which is good because I'm going to be eating it for the rest of the summer. INGREDIENTS Swiss chard...
WASTE LESS
here's a woman I follow who fit two years of her trash in a jar. Two years! There's another woman I found who goes around Manhattan to CVS stores rescuing things getting tossed as garbage--"almost" expired products, perfect or seasonal unsold...
“CAN I FREEZE THESE FOODS?”
Freeze food now. Avoid shopping and cooking later. "Can I freeze...." It's the trending Google search in the UK right now. At first I thought Londoners were having a cold snap hunting down ski coats. Not so. They're freezing food. With people on lockdown and supply...
NO SPACE? GET GRAFTED FRUIT TREES
TL;DR: Get some fruit trees. Grafted fruit trees can really save the day. Don't kill them. Don't let the birds and deer eat your fruit. "How can I stop buying fruit every year and be more self-reliant? I don't have much land..." If you've got a smallish Poser...
RECYCLED FOOD SERIES: BREAD CRUMBS, BREAD PUDDING, AND CROUTONS
This another recycled food recipe, where we take an ingredient that's perfectly healthy but in some way or another past its prime, and upcycle it into culinary greatness. Bread pudding is a canvas for greatness. Crumble your bread products, add eggs and liquid (milk,...
DON’T TOSS THE BLACK BANANAS: MAKE BANANA BREAD
This is an old favorite recipe for saving slimy, overripe bananas from death. When a banana gets that "yuck" texture--that's when it's at its best for banana bread. It's part of the "Recycled Food Series" aimed to get us to rethink a lot of what we throw away. America...
MAKE PESTO FOR PENNIES
Make pesto like a chef–for pennies–and have a taste of summer all year long! Pesto costs fifteen bucks for a tiny jar in the store–enough for my dinner alone. If you knew how cheap it was to make, you’d be mad. Grow some basil. Harvest it. Put it in the...
VEGGIE EGGROLL RECIPE
What do I do with all this cabbage? Make a poser homestead mock egg roll one-pot meal! Every fall we're buried in cabbage. That's a blessing. Also a blessing: cabbage is one of the best root cellar foods out there. It will last until the first leaves of spring salad...
PANTRY MEAL: STIR FRIED RICE
You can make stir fried rice. You don't need to order takeout. Save the earth. You don't need all the plastic takeout containers to get a taste of takeout Chinese. This is a great meal if you've got some leftover rice. Rice is freezer friendly, so you can even make...