Decorating for fall can be tricky if you don’t want your home to be covered in light-up jack-o-lanterns, plastic skeletons, or paper turkeys. It can also be challenging to avoid spending hundreds of dollars on decorations! One of my goals…
Luxurious and Nourishing Tallow Lotion
Beef tallow is my go-to for all things skincare. Once I started making tallow balm for my face last winter, I realized what an underrated ingredient it is. Not only is tallow a unique superfood, but it makes a nourishing…
Long Fermented Sourdough Bread Recipe
Long Fermented sourdough is sourdough that is bulk fermented for longer than 8 hours. This method of fermentation can help improve your baking schedule, make your bread easier to digest, and adds so much more flavor. I discovered this hack…
Sourdough Starter Not Rising? Here are the Four Reasons Why
When I first began working with my sourdough starter, I never imagined that one day I would master such a mysterious process. From my years of teaching people to bake sourdough, I have heard so much confusion about the starter….
Whole Egg Mayonnaise | Quick and Easy from Scratch Recipe
Whole egg mayonnaise is one of the best from-scratch swaps in terms of price and improved quality. The reality is that most mayonnaise contains seed oils, which are highly processed and can cause inflammation. When I started looking at the…
What is the Ancestral Diet?
At its core, an ancestral diet is eating as our ancestors did. It sounds so simple and obvious, but this way of eating is not common among most Americans who have vast access to premade foods and take out. You…
Soft and Chewy Sourdough Pretzels
Sourdough pretzels can’t be beaten by any other snack: they can be dipped into mustard and cheese, they are perfectly chewy, and they can be served sweet or salty! I used to make a lot of pretzels before life got…
Sticky Chai: My Favorite Recipe
I have always been a lover of chai. For years I drank the vanilla chai from Bigelow almost every morning and it was so convenient and delicious! This past year, however, I discovered how many additives are in packaged teas…
Whipped Tallow Balm with Honey and Shea
Tallow is a miraculous ingredient. Of course in homestead circles, I have heard about it for years, but it wasn’t until I made my own tallow balm that I understood the excitement. Now, tallow has been an incredible addition to…
How to Romanticize Your Life
Or how to savor the little things in life Or how to enjoy life more I have always been the kind of person to romanticize everything. Yes, I’m the girl who is pulling over to pick flowers on the side…
How to Bake Same Day Sourdough
Sometimes I want to start and finish my baking all in one day. Maybe to save time, maybe because I’m just impatient for some bread, there are many reasons to bake a speedy loaf. I started baking same day sourdough…
What is the Best Flour for Sourdough Starter + Other Tips
My sourdough starter has been through many phases. It has smelled bad, gotten grey, and one time I accidentally baked it in the oven! There have been many successes and failures but after a couple of years consistently keeping a…