Fermented cabbage or sauerkraut makes a wonderful addition to meals and adds healthy bacteria to your gut. Simple to make at home with just cabbage and salt, fermented cabbage is tangy, even sour, and delicious! Try your hand at fermenting cabbage, or making sauerkraut, with this recipe. What is fermented cabbage? Fermented cabbage goes by…
How to Make Quick Breakfast Biscuits
Three ingredient biscuits sounds too good to be true, yeah? Well, if you lower your standards just a skosh on the fluffiness and flakiness factor, then this is the recipe for you! These three ingredient biscuits are delicious and easy to make especially if batching out breakfasts for your on-the-go family. Read on for how…
Is Raising Turkeys and Chickens Together a Good Idea?
Birds of a feather flock together? Well, when your homesteading vision doesn’t exactly line up perfectly with your resources, you make do with what you’ve got. This year we raised two Bourbon Red turkeys with our backyard flock of laying hens and two Khaki Campbell ducks. Here’s how raising turkeys went for Johnson Home: This…
Beverages to delight any palate this winter: 10 simple non-alcoholic drinks for the holidays
The holiday season comes with many family and friends gatherings. Sharing meals, stories, and new food and drink creations follow as well. This season, as you enjoy the company of your loved ones, sip on one (or more) of these winter themed non-alcoholic or mocktail beverages. 10 Winter Themed Non-Alcoholic or Mocktail Beverages These recipes…
Dry winter skin: 3 ideas for how to remedy it
Do you suffer from dry winter skin? Exfoliation and proper moisture can help. In this post, I’ll share with you what I use for skincare in the winter months that help reduce splitting cuticles and corners of nail beds, flaking of dry skin on face and elbows, and itchy hands from lots of washing. How…
Winter Soups: 10 New Soups to Add to Your Collection
Looking to add some new winter soup recipes to your collection? I’ve got 10 winter soup recipes ready for you today. 1. White Bean and Rice Soup by wholesomeandhappy.com Protein packed and veggies galore! This soup checks all the wholesome and nutritious boxes for a warm and filling family dinner. INGREDIENTS Check out the rest…
10 of the best kitchen tools that can help a from scratch kitchen work more efficiently
When you cook in a from scratch kitchen for most meals of the day, your kitchen sink will always be full. There’s just no getting around that. But take heart! Here are 10 of the best kitchen tools that can help a from scratch kitchen work more efficiently. You know, so we can have more…
No Need for Eggs in this Sandwich Bread Recipe
Need a good loaf of sandwich bread but don’t have all day to wait on it? Try this delicious yeast bread with no eggs needed recipe! In about 2 hours, you’ll have two loaves of bread. Alternatively, you can use half the dough for bread and the other half for buns or cinnamon rolls. Read…
9 Cozy Winter Hobbies that Offer Rest to the Homesteader
If you’re anything like me, it can be hard to rest. Resting feels unproductive but rest is essential. So essential, in fact, that God called for it on the 7th day of Creation. For the homesteader, farmer, grower; resting is for the winter. When the fields (gardens) are fallow, the pantry is stocked, and the…
This is the Easiest DIY Dish Soap With Only 2 Ingredients You’ll Find
For almost a year, I have been trying to perfect a recipe I found for non-toxic DIY dish soap. I bought the vegetable glycerin and the washing soda only for it to turn into a hard glob I couldn’t get out of the mason jar easily. I have played with that recipe for months now…
