It has been a while since we have had time to update our blog. We have spent most of our time documenting the hurricane damage and uploading videos to our youtube channel The Blue Riverhaus We took a break from all of the chaos and spent the weekend at our off grid property. We wereContinue reading “Thanksgiving Camping Trip”
Category Archives: Homesteading
Sous Vide for life!
It has been a while since our last post because we have been burning the candle at both ends! To help with our meal planning/prepping we have been learning about a french method of cooking under pressure for an extended period of time to slow cook the food. Many of us have eaten sous videContinue reading “Sous Vide for life!”
Turning the Nam Doc Mai into mango jam
We took a special trip out to Fruitscapes on Pine Island to pick up some of the infamous Nam Doc Mai mangos. The mangos originate from Thailand and since the seeds are polyembryonic, they will produce fruit identical to the parent tree. These are the only ones that are polyembryonic that are said to growContinue reading “Turning the Nam Doc Mai into mango jam”
We are gonna need more tomatoes!
Since we have been procrastinating doing anything with the tomatoes in our freezer, we took advantage of PRIME day and ordered a Weston Tomato Strainer. This is our first year using one and it really made processing a snap! Last year we removed the skins manually and it was a pain in the you knowContinue reading “We are gonna need more tomatoes!”
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