I’m passionate about homesteading, off-grid living, and growing nourishing, clean, and real food. I blog about preparing wholesome meals, preserving abundant harvests, and working with herbs.
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Last minute Thanksgiving recipes!
Published about 1 month ago • 6 min read
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Food For Life Garden Update!
Wow, it's just about Thanksgiving already. Are you prepared? I am never ready for the holidays, lol. They have a way of sneaking up on me while I'm busy with life.
That's when I'll have to remind myself to slow down a little and think of what matters most. Let's be grateful for our blessings.
I am grateful for my wonderful family, for Jesus, and I am grateful for you! Thank you for being a part of my community and sharing in this homesteading journey with me. And I hope you have a wonderful time with your loved ones this weekend. Happy Thanksgiving!
If you're still looking for some great recipes for Thanksgiving and the Holidays, here is a link to my Holiday Favorite Desserts Roundup:
18 Delicious Holiday Desserts To Make This Season:
Check out my delicious healthier cookies and cakes as well as refreshing creamy desserts. Stay well this Holiday season and savor these wonderful wholesome flavors. Many are easy to make ahead. I think you'll love these Holiday Favorites!
Holiday Breakfast: If you like a healthy breakfast this fall to start your day off right, you'll love my Pumpkin Apple Breakfast Muffins that are full of fall flavors! And if you haven't yet, check out my Dutch Baby Recipe while you're there. It is super delicious with leftover cranberry sauce!
Here are more favorite fall recipes:
Zwiebelkuchen, a Southern German onion and bacon pie.
And do grab these delicious appetizer recipes for your fall and Holiday Parties, potlucks, or just for snacks or lunches. Visit the blog to make Jalapeno Pie and Jalapeño Popper Mini Quiches.
Cranberry Orange Salad Or Sauce With Beef Gelatin
Cranberry sauce on steroids! One of my favorite Holiday dishes ever and perfect to make ahead! You’ll love this Molded Salad to go with turkey, roast or ham. And it's even fantastic for dessert!
Or use less gelatin to make a sauce. It’s delicious either way and loaded with antioxidants and vitamins, full of fruitiness, collagen, and christmas spices. Made with hibiscus and rosehip tea, and sweetened with honey, this salad is a superfood for health. And did I mention it’s outrageously delicious? Get the recipe here!
GET YOUR SEEDS HERE! True Leaf Market has many vegetable varieties, as well as a big selection on herbs! Plus, they offer Free Shipping over $75.-. So get your seeds before they sell out or it's too late to plant!
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New On The Blog
Jambalaya with Ham!
This jambalaya dish is a fabulous and easy one-pot rice meal that transforms leftover ham into a new delicacy. It’s based on creole jambalaya rice recipes, but with some variations. This is one of my favorite leftover ham recipes and it is so comforting on a chilly night.
One-pot ham jambalaya is delicious on its own when served in a bowl. But it’s even better topped with cheese and with a crusty sourdough bread, cornbread, or a salad on the side. Shrimps are optional, but I highly recommend adding them for that Louisiana Jambalaya touch and awesome flavor and texture. If you’re looking to do something with your leftover ham, you'll find this to be perfect! Let’s cook up some delicious and easy Jambalaya for dinner!
These awesome Linzer cookies are at the top of my favorites list. I’ve been making them almost every Christmas season since I was a teenager. These cookies look so fancy, but they are simple to make and don’t take a lot of time. However, they taste best after hanging out a day or two in the cookie tin.
That’s when the magic happens. They soften and all the flavors meld to transform each one of these Linzer sandwich cookies into a perfectly delicious treat. This is one of those recipes that makes you wonder how you could live without it before. So if you’re up for a new addiction, join me in the kitchen and let’s bake up a batch delicious Linzer Cookies!
This is for all of you who are interested in making cheese naturally but have no access to raw milk. Cheese can be made many ways. I feel that clabbering raw pastured milk is the best way and introduces the perfect microbiome for making any cheeses.
However, raw milk is not always easy to get when you don’t raise your own dairy animals. But there are other ways you can make an effective cheese starter culture without having to buy laboratory created cheese cultures that are normally made with undesirable (and often undisclosed) ingredients.
Learn all about it. Don’t miss out on making natural cheese for the lack of raw milk!
These lemon heart cookies are awesome! They are deliciously lemony and refreshing, they look pretty, they are soft and a bit chewy, and are super easy to make. And Zitronenherzen can be used for many occasions other than Christmas. I’ve been making them countless times and they are always part of my Christmas cookie bake-athons.
These Lemon hearts are made with nutrient-dense almond meal and unrefined panela sugar. If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I like to focus on posting recipes that are healthier, wholesome and taste great, and I think these cookies fit in quite well after doctoring with the original recipe a little. And they are so easy, let’s go and make a batch of Lemon Heart Cookies!
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And then you can use the best non-toxic cookware to cook your roast in. Get it straight to your door from Greenpan. You'll find a lot of great cookware for Christmas gifts too:
Handpicked Holiday Gift Ideas
Find Dozens Of Handpicked Holiday Gift Ideas for homesteaders and would be homesteaders, for gardeners, foragers, preppers, and for those hard-to-shop-for friends who have (almost) everything!
Handpicked Holiday Gift Ideas
Find Dozens Of Handpicked Holiday Gift Ideas for homesteaders and would be homesteaders, for gardeners, foragers, preppers, and for those hard to shop for friends who have (almost) everything!
New Freebies Alert!
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27 Designs For You To Print And Use As Needed!
I've uploaded a few new freebies for you! Check them out. 27 printable Holiday gift tags and a wall chart with companion plant ideas for your food forest. Click here for your Freebie Library Pass where you can access all my freebies.
Harvest Right Freeze Dryers are on sale now on their website. Get the medium home pro for just $$2,295! That'a an awesome deal! I highly recommend this freeze dryer if you want to preserve your harvest for many years on the shelf! It's the best way to dry food in my opinion and, vaccuum sealed, it can last for a decade. Prepare for unforseen diseasters or make your own freeze dried camping rations. Tip: if you go there right now, you can enter their drawing for a FREE Harvest Right Freeze Dryer!
And, here are a few gifts for gardeners or for yourself. Check out this handy Gardener's Shopping Bag that proclaims your passion! And get the matching Life Is Better In The Garden Mug which comes in many color choices and two sizes.
Save With Etsy Cyber Sale: 25% Off Everything Until December 2nd!
If you would like to support my website, you can get this beautiful Logo Mug, available in a dozen colors and 2 sizes at my Etsy store!
I'm glad you stopped by here! Hit reply and tell me what you're baking this fall or ask any questions about gardening, preserving foods, or raising animals for meat, eggs, and milk! And if you're curious about anything homesteading or off-grid, just hit reply, drop me a note, and I'll get back to you!
Greetings and Happy Homesteading!
Live Is Better In The Garden
Create A Food Forest
A printable, downloadable quick reference guide. Starting a food forest from scratch. With illustrations and charts.
I’m passionate about homesteading, off-grid living, and growing nourishing, clean, and real food. I blog about preparing wholesome meals, preserving abundant harvests, and working with herbs.
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