Drinks

How to Make Hard Cider from Apple Juice   I have been dreaming about making my own homemade apple cider from a cider press for many years. This year my dream finally came true! It was a lot harder work than I expected, but making apple cider with a cider press was a great success.  …

 I have been wanting to learn how to make cider for a long time. I still have fond memories of making apple cider with my grandparents on their farm when I was a kid. Every year they would pick up all the apples that had fallen on the ground at their small apple orchard and…

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit a local lavender farm. It was a really fun experience, and with the lavender I brought home I have already made lavender lemonade and lavender blueberry jam. While looking for more lavender recipes, I found a recipe for lavender iced tea and had to…

I first tasted kombucha a couple of years ago. I was skeptical about it at first, but wanted to see what all the hype was about. I was surprised how sour it was, almost like drinking vinegar! But after I gave it a couple of tries, it started to grow on me. I decided to…

The past couple of years I have had a lot of fun foraging for wild fruits and different kinds of wild herbs and flowers. This year there was an abundance of wild roses growing near where we live, so I decided to try to find some different recipes using rose petals. I came up with…