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In the homestead recipes category, you’ll find all my recipes for nourishing meals, sweet treats, fermenting, preserving, and homemade pantry staples.
Wholesome ingredients, 100% from scratch. No white flours, no refined sugar, no weird additives. Recipes that work on or off the grid.

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Mayonnaise is one of those homemade staples that most people end up buying at the shop, but it’s actually really simple to make it at home. Animal fats can be used in mayonnaise, but when it’s refrigerated the consistency will be too solid, so you may need to bring it to room temperature before using. Melted bacon fat is wonderful in mayonnaise, especially for potato salad, but for the best consistency I like to use macadamia oil or sunflower oil.…

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Here are my tips for making the most nutritious and tasty bone broth, plus some thoughts on whether to add salt or vinegar to your broth. How to make bone broth For the best bone broth, you need bones from healthy animals. 1. First roast the bones (if they were not roasted already) Roasting helps to bring out the best flavours in the bones. When I am starting with raw bones, I always roast them in the oven for around…

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These gluten-free cherry ripe bars are absolutely delicious, and healthy too… Homemade dark chocolate combines with a cherry coconut filling to make a delicious treat that can easily replace store-bought chocolate bars. Homemade cherry ripe bars Ingredients For the chocolate1/2 cup cacao butter, coconut oil, or butter, melted1/4 cup raw honey, plus more to taste, if you wanta pinch of salta pinch of vanilla bean powder, or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 cup cacao powder For the cherry filling1 1/2 cups…

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How to make jam the old fashioned way, without sugar or pectin Jam made with honey brings out the flavour of the fruit, and tastes better than jam made with refined sugar. It keeps well too. Making jam with honey isn’t a very well known skill. There are some recipes around showing how to make jam without sugar, but they’re often designed to be a small batch that’s kept in the fridge and used up quickly, not for serious fruit…
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I’ve memorised this recipe from making it so many times, because it’s an easy and wonderfully tasty way to serve all kinds of seasonal fruit.
