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Category: Food Preparation

Sausage... A gourmet delicacy, yet it is the essence of nose-to-tail farm frugality. Nothing goes to waste when all the scraps and small pieces of meat are used to make sausage. Salting, smoking, fermenting, and drying are all ways to preserve meat for longer without refrigeration. Sausage made at home from the best local, pastured meats, mixed with tons of wholesome flavor, avoids all the chemicals found in processed meats.

Homemade Italian Sausage

"Does sourdough remove phytic acid? My family needs to avoid it because of tooth decay and cavities in my children," asks Wendy R. Watch, listen, or read to find out my answer! | AskWardee.tv

Does Sourdough Remove Phytic Acid From Grains? #AskWardee 016

Want a tasty treat and a fun winter activity for the kids rolled into one? This old-fashioned treat only has 2 ingredients: maple syrup and snow! Making maple syrup candy is a long-standing tradition of the sugaring off season. If you're a fan of Little House on the Prairie, you'll remember Laura and Mary enjoying this late-winter treat, and now you can too!

Maple Syrup Snow Candy

Quick and Easy Vanilla Custard | "What's your favorite dessert? Only one thing trumps ice cream in my heart... And that's custard. Here, I've created a grain-free version that is rich, comforting, and easy." -- Megan Stevens | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Quick and Easy Vanilla Custard

What is a linen couche proofing cloth? How can it be used to bake sourdough bread? Watch, listen, or read to learn about one of my favorite kitchen tools, plus how to care for it!

What Is A Linen Couche Proofing Cloth? + How To Use & Care For One! #AskWardee 023

Is pomace olive oil healthy? It’s the last bit of oil that can be extracted from olives — making it decidedly not extra-virgin (that’s the first pressing), yet also pleasantly inexpensive. Watch, listen, or read to learn if pomace olive oil has a place in a healthy kitchen!

Is Pomace Olive Oil Healthy? #AskWardee 026

Herbal bath tea is incredibly easy to make AND can be made in endless variations to suit many different purposes. Not to mention, they make unique gifts! When herbs are added to a warm bath, the soothing or healing benefits of the herbs are absorbed through the skin.

How To Make Relaxing Herbal Bath Teas

What’s the best way to take herbs? It’s the herbal supplement showdown… Tea, infusion, capsule, or tincture? Watch, listen, or read to find out my answer! | AskWardee.tv

What’s The Best Way To Store Herbs & Spices? #AskWardee 037

Why is gluten so hard to digest? What is the relationship between gluten sensitivity and sourdough? Is sourdough gluten-free? Here is the science behind sourdough -- how the proteins in wheat affect our digestion and the answer to the question: is sourdough gluten-free?

Gluten Sensitivity & Sourdough: Is Sourdough Gluten-Free?

Whether it's aches, pains, or sore muscles, or connecting physically with your one and only...massage is the answer. And to do the job right -- you need massage oil. Not lotion. So in our house, homemade massage oil with essential oils is IT.

Homemade Massage Oil With Essential Oils

You've heard about cooking with essential oils... but maybe you're not ready to jump in and start adding them to your favorite recipes just yet. What if you add too much or your dish doesn't taste like you thought it should? Well, I've collected 27 tried-and-true recipes with essential oils for you. These taste (and look) goooood!

27 Recipes With Essential Oils

Chocolate Zucchini Muffin Bites In The Instant Pot + How Pressure Cookers Work | Yummy chocolate zucchini bread is adapted to the Instant Pot in these Chocolate Zucchini Muffin Bites (mini pressure cooker muffins in the Instant Pot)! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Chocolate Zucchini Muffin Bites In The Instant Pot + How Pressure Cookers Work

Store-bought yogurt cups are a frivolous expense -- especially the organic ones! It's so easy to have homemade flavored yogurt with a slightly sweet, bright lemon-y tang by adding just 3 ingredients. Here's how!

Lemon Essential Oil Yogurt

'Partly out of convenience, I reached for my spearmint essential oil. Soon, it was lavender and lemon, too! All are beautifully delicious in a base of cream and unrefined sugar in this homemade ice cream with essential oils.'

Herb, Flower, & Citrus Essential Oil Ice Cream

'I'm 43 -- too young for menopause! But that doesn't mean that the estrogen in my body isn't changing its tune. Are you in your late 30s or early 40s, too? It's sexy and awesome to be 40 because perimenopause can be the greatest new beginning -- especially if you know how to support your hormones!'

What Is Perimenopause? How To Use Progesterone Safely

Want to use herbal extracts ... but not if they're made with alcohol? Judy B. is in the same boat... She has small children and prefers not to give them alcohol. Watch, listen, or read to learn how to make powerful herbal extracts -- without alcohol! | AskWardee.tv

How To Make An Herbal Tincture (aka Herbal Extract)

What’s the best way to take herbs? It’s the herbal supplement showdown… Tea, infusion, capsule, or tincture? Watch, listen, or read to find out my answer! | AskWardee.tv

What’s The Best Way To Take Herbs — Tea, Infusion, Capsule, Or Tincture? #AskWardee 046

Want to try some sprouting? A sprouting screen will run you about $7. If you want 4 jars of sprouts going at the same time, that's $28 It adds up! Or, you can do what Morgen did and make DIY sprouting lids for just 5 cents each! Here's how!

DIY Sprouting Lids {for just 5 cents!}