The Suburban Homestead
Piecaken. You’re Welcome. Piecaken I saw this idea of putting a pie inside of a cake on a video somewhere. I don’t remember where it was, but I remember I had to try it and I thought about it a lot … probably way too much. It’s like a turducken, but it’s a piecaken; a […]
Refrigerator Pickles Recipe With all of our preserving this summer, we had to try refrigerator pickles too! I have never made refrigerator pickles but had heard how easy they are. Well, they were right and, man oh man, are they delicious! Don’t tell my great aunt who’s canned dill pickle recipe we love, but these *might* […]
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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
One great thing about summer is the tomatoes. If you are following along on our blog Dan330.com, in our Grow Your Own Challenge series, you know we have picked hundreds of pounds of tomatoes. We’ve been canning, making our own homemade ketchup, salsa, tomato sauce, honey, and much more. But I thought I’d show you […]
Homemade Coleslaw Recipe It seems like it was just yesterday that we planted our cabbages in our straw bale garden. It is now almost mid-September and we are ready to harvest. We have had so much great food from the garden this year! Now, we are trying to do something a little new with this […]