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Techniques & Tutorials

Category: Techniques & Tutorials

A Victorian Christmas: Using Seasonal and Preserved Foods at Christmas (and a note about suet) | GNOWFGLINS.com

A Victorian Christmas: Using Seasonal and Preserved Foods at Christmas

Fresh Cheddar Cheese Curds | If pressing and aging cheese sounds too complicated, I've got an idea for you! Learn how to make easy homemade cheese curds instead. They're squeaky, healthy, and melt like a dream! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homemade Raw Cheddar Cheese

Fresh Bread On A Wood Stove | My family and I greatly enjoy our winters in Idaho. We look forward to the snowshoe hikes, the warmth and coziness of the fire, and the benefits of cooking on a wood stove all winter long. I love using my wood stove for our meals, baked goods, and of course, bread! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Fresh Bread On A Wood Stove

How to Render (Goat) Fat

How to Render (Goat) Fat

Cheese Press Reviews

Cheese Press Reviews

Free Video: Homemade, Natural, All-Purpose Cleaner

Free Video: Homemade, Natural, All-Purpose Cleaner

How To Wax Cheese | If you're making homemade cheese, you need to learn how to wax cheese! Waxing cuts down on mold and putrefying bacteria’s access to cheese while it ages, and it also prevents cheese from drying out too much. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Wax Cheese

Free Video: Homemade Fruit Fly Trap

Free Video: Homemade Fruit Fly Trap

FREE Video: How to Freeze Plums/Prunes

FREE Video: How to Freeze Plums/Prunes

FREE Video: How to Dehydrate Plums/Prunes

FREE Video: How to Dehydrate Plums/Prunes

Homemade Dried Lemon Peel | Got extra lemon peels? Often recipes say to trim them off and juice the rest of the lemon. But no need to waste those peels! Make homemade dried lemon peel in 3 easy steps. In this video, you'll see me do it in (literally) a minute. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Homemade Dried Lemon Peel In 3 Easy Steps (with video!)

A Handy Guide For Washing Produce | The beginning of spring is the perfect to time to talk about preserving produce. I don't mean recipes, canning, or lacto-fermentation, though. I want to talk about the first thing you do to produce once you bring it home. Let's talk about the best ways to wash produce! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

A Handy Guide For Washing Produce

The Ultimate Cheese Press Is Updated! (New Video) | Just a quick note this Saturday morning to share news of my favorite cheese press, the Ultimate Cheese Press from Homesteader Supply. It's design is improved, it's now being made from hardwood maple, and it's being seasoned with organic coconut oil! The bit about seasoning is the best part. Jerri from Homesteader Supply heard my request to give us a press that's got an oil we love to use -- and she listened. | GNOWFGLINS.com

The Ultimate Cheese Press is Updated (New Video)!

The Big Flat Real Food Reuben Sandwich | Who knew that making a big honkin' loaf-sized sandwich and flattening it under cement blocks, rocks, or gym weights could be so fun (or so delicious)? I'd seen other Big Flat Sandwiches around the internet, but when Wardee first presented the idea of making a real food Big Flat Sandwich, I immediately knew I needed to try my all-time favorite sandwich -- the Reuben. | GNOWFGLINS.com

The Big Flat Reuben: A Real Food Big Flat Sandwich

Grilled Pizza | You'll love amazing brick oven-crispy-chewy, full-flavored pizza -- and you'll appreciate not heating up the kitchen in the summer. With these techniques, your grill, and my special Italian pizza dough and sauce recipes (some of which I learned while in Italy), expect to be transported across the sea to Naples, the birthplace of pizza. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Grilled Pizza

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream | Nothing beats the heat of August like a few scoops of ice cream. We almost always have homemade ice cream in the freezer. When you take the time to make ice cream from scratch with nourishing ingredients, your reward is a healthy food. This ice cream could be eaten for breakfast without too much guilt! Plus, how to make it in a ziploc! | GNOWFGLINS.com

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream (plus how to make it in a Ziploc!)

5 Ways to Preserve Your Herbs (plus easy pesto recipe) | Fall is just about here and many of us are busy preserving the summer harvest. While you are freezing, canning, and dehydrating fruits and veggies, don’t forget to preserve your herbs, too! Both medicinal and culinary herbs can be preserved in a variety of ways for use throughout the year. Here are 5 ways to preserve and store your herb harvest. | GNOWFGLINS.com

5 Ways to Preserve Your Herbs (including easy pesto recipe)

How To Can Beans The Nourishing Way | Canned beans are easily found on grocery store shelves, but by canning your own you can go further. And not just 1 -- but 2 -- steps further! Here are directions for *nourishing* canned beans, and you'll save money, too! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

How To Can Beans The Nourishing Way