The Suburban Homestead
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* […]
Cider Mimosa Recipe Pure genius. It’s a rare thing these days. Combining two of your favorite things can either be pure genius or a total disaster. Cidermosa is definitely a genius idea. Does anything beat the crisp taste of fresh apple cider on a fall day? Or the bubbly perfection of champagne? The short answer […]
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 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 […]
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 […]