Hungarian goulash, the real deal. In the Midwest, there is a dish called goulash that is slightly sweetened stewed tomatoes and ground beef mixed into elbow macaroni. Not to knock that dish, but it’s not Hungarian goulash.
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Fire Tonic from The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders
The weather is finally starting to feel like fall. I love that we can open the windows and freshen up the air in the house. But, I know it won’t be long before it gets too cold for that. The Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a cold and snowy winter for us. Truly, I love that, as well! But being closed up in the house or work or school more means germs will be more readily shared. Today, we are going to make Fire Tonic from The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders by Abby Artemesia. It takes several weeks of sitting in the pantry to be fully ready, so now’s the time to prepare our herbal medicine cabinet and get our immunity boosted.
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Dried Tomatoes Stored in Oil
We’ve talked about a number of ways to preserve foods when in season so we can enjoy them for months to come — canning, freezing, fermenting. Today we’ll talk about drying or dehydrating. You can dehydrate many foods for longer shelf-stable storage, even things you might not think of. Not only fruits and vegetables but also meat (think jerky), dairy or eggs. And there are a variety of ways to dehydrate foods using the sun, the air, the oven or a dehydrator. Today we’re making dried tomatoes stored in oil using our dehydrator.
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Tour Our Summer Garden
The summer is still hot, but we’re already looking toward fall. Join us for a tour of our summer garden. Some of the plants in our garden have been harvested completely, some are finishing up and looking a little sad in the summer heat and unusually dry weather, but we still have some we’re very much looking forward to harvesting. Find out what we planted for the first time this year, what did well for us, what didn’t quite work as planned. In addition, what will be in our fall garden.
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