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Venison Rub

My kids just love this rub on their venison steaks. It’ll season 8-10lbs of meat, so store it in an old space jar after you have used it.

Ingredients:

1/4c kosher salt 1/8 c black pepper 1/4c paprika 1tb brown sugar 1tb white sugar 2tb thyme 2tb garlic powder 1tb onion powder 1tb cayenne pepper […]

Crockpot Ham and Scalloped Potatoes

This is one of our standard meals for using up leftover ham.

Ingredients:

6c potatoes, cubed 1 medium onion, minced 1 ts salt 1/2lb cooked ham, cubed 4tb butter 4tb flour 1ts salt 2c milk 1-1/2c shredded cheddar cheese

Method:

Layer potatoes, onion, salt, and ham. Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir […]

Northernized Red Beans and Rice

Definitely not the authentic southern dish – a bit more mild which was appreciated by our kids.

Ingredients:

4-16oz. cans of kidney beans, rinsed and drained 1-14.5oz can of diced tomatoes, undrained (optional) 1 lb smoked sausage, cut into slices 1c chicken broth 3 celery ribs, sliced 1 large onion, chopped 1 green pepper, chopped […]

Crockpot Sausage and Potatoes

I actually made this with venison sausage, but considering the general population doesn’t keep that on hand…. I know it would work great with any smoked sausage.

Ingredients:

3lb potatoes, peeled and cubed 2lb smoked sausage 8oz cream cheese 10.5 oz or homemade equivalent cream of celery soup 1tb ranch dressing mix

Method

Combine potatoes […]

Ranch Dressing Mix

When I read the ingredient list on the back of my ranch dressing bottle a few years ago, that was all I needed to figure out how to make my own (we do store a few bottles to keep on hand for moments when I may not have all the necessary ingredients to make the […]

Coney Sauce for Hot Dogs

I was able to replicate my husbands favorite coney sauce. This was pretty awesome because he hasn’t been able to find anything close to the taste he kept craving – which is about two hours away.

Ingredients:

1/2 lb ground beef, browned 1/2c onion, chopped 1-1/2 c ketchup 1/4c sugar 1/4c vinegar 1/4c prepared mustard […]

Pretzel Pizza

My husband used to love getting those pretzel crust pizzas at the local pizza joint. He was so disappointed when he learned they no longer carried them. So he asked me to try my hand at making one. I’ve made soft pretzels before and figured this couldn’t be too far of a […]

Spring on the farm

There is such a difference of life, living out here. This is our first year on the farm, away from the city, and life is so different. You can really smell the fresh air out here. And during the spring, it is such a sweet fragrance. I never fully understood what fresh air really smelled […]

What we have growing – Spring 2015

In early April we began planting cool weather seeds and transplanting cool weather seedlings. We have a 70×130 garden with 16 garden plots about 5ft. wide and 50ft. long. Before the gardening season I fenced the garden off with light duty U-posts and 4ft. tall chicken wire to keep our free range chickens out. Once […]