In the past I have dried and roasted regular pumpkin seeds, with the white hulls. They tasted good, but chewing them felt like you were rubbing a layer of enamel off your teeth. Sorry to whom I gifted some. Since then, I have discovered hulless ...
In the Garden
Grow Your Own Small Melons
Small melons, like these Queen Anne Pocket Melons and Mother Mary's Pie Melons, are productive vines that produce an abundant crop of baseball sized melons. With a short maturation, these melons might be just the thing for short season gardeners. ...
Grow Montreal Market Melons
The Montreal Market Melon is a great find for gardeners, even far from Montreal here in the northern prairies. Its crispy green flesh has a wonderfully sweet, musky melon flavour in a generous size! Get the low down on where these treasures came from ...
Simple Mudroom
Another very important secondary room! Just like our pantry, this mudroom is designed to be a simple workhorse – a room to hide the mud. Check out what we have accomplished, and what we have planned for this simple mudroom. Small war or post war ...
Chokecherry/Chokeberry BBQ Sauce
Blueberry BBQ sauce has been around for awhile. This Chokecherry or Chokeberry BBQ Sauce can be modified for other berries or berry syrups, and has good depth of flavour with a little kick to finish it off. It kicks the same-old BBQ sauce out of the ...
Harvesting Chokecherries and Chokecherry Syrup
Chokecherries are a rural prairie classic. From chokecherry pie to chokecherry syrup, these tart berries are a late summer treat. Read on to get the low down on harvesting chokecherries and making chokecherry syrup. Different years produce ...
Build a Pantry
This might be the most anticipated room in our old house remodel. At 6x12 feet, this pantry is almost as big as our old kitchen. Let’s explore how we build a pantry and what we have planned for this workhorse of a space. Our old kitchen was an ...
Baker Creek Seeds
I may have ordered a lot of seeds. I know I'm not alone. I know you're out there. Check out my seed order picks from Baker Creek and my favourite local company, Heritage Harvest Seed. (not affiliated) Besides collecting my own seeds, like these ...
80 Year Old House Remodel #14 Kitchen
Ok, time for a kitchen update I our old house remodel. In keeping with our country setting and love of rustic, our kitchen is a definite reflection of this, with its green cabinetry and butcher block counters. Check out the progress we’ve ...
Platz: Fruit Dessert Square Bar
Platz?! This German crowd favourite has a plain base like most squares and bars, a fruity layer, and a buttery crumb topping. How about a drizzle of icing for the sweet tooth? Try this platz fruit dessert! My grandma gave me this recipe, and now ...
I'm Erika, I live on eighty acres in the northern prairies of southern Manitoba with my husband and four kids. Here, we enjoy the outdoors and try to be more self sufficient as we try new things in the garden and learn about our land and the world around us.