The Suburban Homestead
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Caramel Apple Smores We were invited to a friends harvest party this fall. The challenge was to bring something to eat with apples for the fall harvest. As usual, we were running late and hadn’t planned anything so we scrambled our first batch of Caramel Apple S’mores together. The caramel apple smores were a huge hit […]
It’s our first post! It is for one of the best salsa recipe ideas we have. We’re so excited to get this blog up and going. I couldn’t help but start it as quickly as I could install WordPress. I’m Chris from Four Kids and a Chicken and this is our new blog. I own […]