Off-Grid Foods

The time for morel mushroom hunting is upon us. The temperatures are starting to rise, and signs of spring are popping up all around us. That...

Consuming seasonal superfoods – that is, foods that are nutrient-rich -- strengthens your immune system so you can fight off those nagging colds and be at...

Autumn is here! And autumn means harvest time has come and is in full swing. To me, fall has always meant lots of apple pies, apple...

It is never more gratifying to be a gardener than when luscious ripe tomatoes are rolling off the plants and into our kitchens. For most of...

Are you like millions of Americans who bought into the lipid hypothesis myth? You know, the one that says that saturated fat causes heart disease and...

Often when talking about foods with a long shelf life, the items we describe don’t comprise a very appealing diet. Living on rice and beans in...

There's a pioneer cooking tradition in the United States that stretched from cook camps on cattle drives to lumber camps. It's "perpetual soup,” known in some...

Baking bread usually requires an oven. But what do you do when you're a pioneer living in the 1800s -- and you don’t have an oven?...

Food preservation skills are an important part of homesteading. It’s wonderful to pop open a jar of home-canned tomatoes or enjoy your own frozen peaches when...

Fermented foods: the words bring up images of sauerkraut and kimchi along with other pungent morsels. But if you haven’t given it much more thought than...