Another “reuse it” episode. If you thought making a smoker out of an old freezer was neat, wait until you see this next little project. Building a root cellar out of an old refrigerator or freezer. First off, what would you use a root cellar for? Despite modern technology, some things are just better the …
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Real food is affordable. Real food is better for you. Real food will make you feel better and live a healthier life. What is real food? Well, in my world, real food is food that has not been adulterated or processed. It’s recognizable to your great grandparents and most likely doesn’t come in fancy packaging. …
It’s about time the fat myth got busted. Wall Street Journal Article Time Magazine Article Now since all these fabulous sources say it’s true, now we can believe modern medicine… Right? Well, animal fats have never been bad for you, regardless of what Time and the WSJ tell you. But now since it is “officially” …
Update: This has been the most popular post I have written, so I have gone back and updated a few things and added links to get products you need to make this project possible. Refrigerators can be a pain when the burn out. Their big, bulky and have Freon, which is apparently bad for the …
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In my first post: How to press your own apples to make cider, I explained how to extract apple juice from apples through a press. Now this follow up post is how to make hot, delicious apple cider out of the apple juice extracted from the pressed apples. Here are things you are going to …
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I’m pretty sure Sean and I have to try everything at least once from scratch… This year it was apple cider. Actually, we were kinda forced into making our own cider this year. The orchard that we like to buy our cider at had a series of unfortunate events that did not allow them to …
It’s taken me a couple years since I moved to the ranch, but I think I’m starting to like the fall out west better than back east. The first couple years we always went back to the east around the first/second week of October to visit family and friends and to see the changing seasons, …
It’s been a long couple of weeks since the birth of our baby boy in August which is why I haven’t gotten a chance to write about it yet, but we are so blessed to have a healthy happy baby boy by the name of John Paul. At 8 lbs 3 ozs he makes my …
Yogurt is so good for you. However, like most other dairy and health products at groceries stores yogurt has been adulterated to the point that most of the beneficial parts of yogurt is null and void. Pasteurization is the major killer of beneficial bacteria and enzymes which all yogurt sold at the store has been …
Coming from Missouri it was almost impossible to wrap my mind around this natural disaster called “range fires.” Everything is so wet in Missouri and grass growth is just enormous all summer long, but it doesn’t take much to understand how the range can catch on fire when you come out to the desert and …