Preserved Lemon Chicken Welcome back. We decided to sneak in one last recipe for the month! It’s a preserved Lemon Chicken and a great example of you can use your preserved food to cook fresh all year long. It feels great to be back behind the camera. Especially when the prize is to eat something […]
Cheese Curd Chili by Four Kids and a Chicken
Cheese Curd Chili When a nip of cold is felt from the woods in the beginning of fall, you know it’s time to start thinking about hot soups, crock pots, and good old-fashioned comfort food. Today, we whipped together a crockpot chili we call Cheese Curd Chili. Served with a side of cornbread and fresh […]
Jalapeno Corn Bread by Four Kids and a Chicken
Jalapeno Corn Bread A delicious option for fall weather is homemade cornbread. The Four Kids and a Chicken blog prefer to use the TLAR method of measuring. If you are unfamiliar, it means “That looks about right.” It’s a VFR navigating method for you non-pilots out there. In other words, go ahead and have some […]
Hey Vikings Fans! Need Some Purple In Your Tailgating?
Show your Purple Pride Hello fellow northlanders – It’s tailgating season. The Four Kids And A Chicken family are huge Vikings fans and we’re gearing up for Vikings v. Carolina today. We think you should show your Vikings colors as much as possible … if for no other reason then to bug all of the […]
Salad Taco Wrap
Salad Taco Wrap Good moring! We have had a very busy week around the Four Kids and a Chicken home. Soccer, hockey, dance and school have started to destroy anything that is left of our personal life or time off. But that’s kind of what you get when you have four kids. Earlier this week, […]
Dill Pickle Recipe For Water Bath Canning
Dill Pickle Recipe A quick note about canning: Canning is very safe if you follow food safety guidelines. I highly recommend sticking to known and trusted sources like Ball’s Blue Book and actually read the first chapter where it talks about food safety. We usually use published recipes, but this post is a family recipe that has […]
A Winter Walk In The Snow
I was out for a long winter walk in the snow with the dog and it was just beautiful. The silence of the forest with the snow falling was too good not to share. I decided to go live on Periscope and the broadcast went to 101 live viewers. As we walked through the woods, down […]
Why We Made All Of Our Tomato Sauce
Tomato Sauce From Our Garden So, why would someone go through the trouble of making all of their own sauce from their garden? Going to the store seems so easy right? Why don’t we just buy all of our produce? It seems so much easier than growing, harvesting, canning, and storing all of our own […]
Home Made Crab Apple Jelly
How To Make Crab Apple Jelly Making homemade crab apple jelly is a fun project I look forward to doing with my kids each summer. We have several wild crabapple trees that grow around my yard and in local area parks. Besides being beautiful spring trees full of pinks, reds, and whites, the crabapple also produces […]
Spaghetti With Fresh Canned Spaghetti Sauce
Spaghetti with Fresh Canned Spaghetti Sauce Sarah and I have been very busy canning and preserving our garden. What do you make when you have dozens of quarts of Garlic Basil Tomato Sauce in your cellar? Spaghetti, duh. We’re just showing you a simple way to use up some of your garden produce. From seed to plant, from […]