Watching documentaries and videos about the 1930s often mention “poor man’s meal” or poor man’s dinner. There are a lot of variations of this humble dinner using ground beef or hot dogs, potatoes, tomato sauce or ketchup and sometimes other veggies too. It’s a simple meal, but delicious, using ingredients most of us have on…
Bread from the Great Depression
This simple bread recipe from the Great Depression takes only a handful of ingredients, is easy to prepare and quite delicious! This is my go-to bread! Let’s get started! We are using one pound of flour which I weigh on a kitchen scale. Depending upon the type of flour, the humidity in the kitchen, the…
June Garden Update with Our City Homestead
I love watching the garden grow. In just 2 weeks, the garden has made great progress. Much of the seeds we planted have come up. It is a little difficult at this point to sometimes distinguish between a weed and a plant! We had pulled out a whole row of rosemary last year, thinking it…
May Garden Update with Our City Homestead
Oh the start of the gardening season. How I love this time of year. Planning what we are going to grow, picking out our seeds and plants, the fresh spring air. It is all wonderful. After a long winter, it is exciting to be able to get back into the garden. We have our plot…
Vanilla Snow Ice Cream
Winter can feel long sometimes, so enjoying snow however we can is a must! When it snows and blizzards (and sometimes it can snow a lot), I often place a couple bowls outside to catch fresh snow to make snow ice cream. We have been making snow ice cream for several years. It is something…
A Family Valentine’s at Fort Edmonton Park
I love learning about history, especially about food, and attending events at living history museums and parks with costumed interpreters. It is such a great way to learn about our community’s past! I am so pleased that my daughters share that love of history of days gone by. We have spent a great deal of…
Fluffy Waffles
This is our go-to waffle recipe that I have been making for years! They’re soft and tender, crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. They’re just as delicious the next day as they are fresh. Let’s get started! Combine flour, baking powder, cornstarch, salt and sugar. Stir. Make a well. Add vanilla, oil…
Lemon Scones
These lemon scones are a light, tender scone that is more like a biscuit but equally delicious! My daughters attended an on online baking class as part of their homeschooling class over the weekend, and they learned how to make these scrumptious lemon scones. The neatest thing is the teacher who is also a pastry…
