Mulberry Jam Recipe: A Podunk Delight Get ready to spread some Podunk love with this simple Mulberry Jam Recipe! Whether you’re a seasoned jam-maker or someone who just discovered that mulberries aren’t poisonous, this recipe is your ticket to sweet, fruity bliss. Mulberries grow like weeds here in the Midwest—every fenceline and backroad has at least one […]
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If you’re looking to dip your toes into the world of canning for beginners, you’ve come to the right place, friend. Now, I know what you’re thinking – “Canning? Like what my grandma used to do?” Well, we’re bringing it back, Podunk style! Canning for Beginners: Preserving the Flavors of Podunk Last summer, my garden decided
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Well, squeeze my cheeks and call me sweet! It’s peach season, and you know what that means—time to dive into some juicy recipes that’ll make you drool so much, you’ll need a lifeguard in your kitchen. Now, I ain’t no fancy chef, but I reckon I know my way around a peach pit or two. If
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How to make wine at home isn’t rocket science, folks. It’s more like turning water into wine, except you’re using fruit and a whole lot of patience. Let me tell you, there’s nothing quite like sipping on your own homemade hooch after a long day of wrasslin’ hogs or fixing that dang tractor for the umpteenth
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Home Maintenance: Your Guide to Keeping Your Castle from Crumbling Proper home maintenance isn’t just for neat freaks and HGTV addicts. It’s the secret sauce to keeping your castle from turning into a crumbling money pit. Welcome to the no-nonsense, BS-free home maintenance checklist, where we’re about to dive headfirst into the thrilling world of adulting.
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Delicious Venison Recipes: Taming the Wild Game Beast in Your Kitchen Today we’re going to wrangle some venison recipes that’ll turn your kitchen into a Midwestern flavor fest. Whether you’ve got a freezer full of Bambi from your last hunting trip (and if you need help planning your next one, check out our comprehensive hunting checklist), or you’re
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Why a Hunting Checklist Is the Key to Legendary Hunter’s Tales This hunting checklist is your guide to the wild world of hunting, where your backyard BBQ dreams collide with the great outdoors! Are you tired of shelling out your hard-earned cash for meat that tastes like it was raised on a diet of cardboard and
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Simple Ground Venison Recipes Alright folks, it’s time to unleash your inner wild game in the kitchen tonight! We’ve got our sights on some ground venison recipes that’ll have you wondering why you ever settled for store-bought meat. Whether you’ve got a freezer full of venison from last season’s hunt (and if you’re gearing up for your
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Garden plot revolution time, folks! Are you tired of paying through the nose for vegetables that taste like the plastic they’re wrapped in? Ready to tell those corporate food overlords to shove their sh*t foods where the sun don’t shine? (And while you’re at it, why not make your own homemade wine to pair with your
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Cornmeal Cookies Today, we’re breaking baking boundaries, by turning honey cornbread into Corn Cookies! Witness the sweet revolution as honey cornbread undergoes a metamorphosis into soft, chewy cookies that will have you questioning how a vegetable cookie can be so delicious. Made with cornmeal, a corn cookie is a delightful fusion of savory and sweet flavors
Canned Corn Recipes This Canned Corn Recipe will have you corn-templating a career as a corn star! We welcome you to the world of canning, where your gardening skills will shine brighter than a Hollywood premiere. Our canned corn recipe will roll out the red carpet to your pantry, turning it into the VIP section of
Rhubarb Coffee Cake Recipe Flip the vegetable world over with our Rebellious Rhubarb Cake Recipe! We’re taking this vegetable from the savory sidelines straight to the sugary spotlight. Who said vegetables can’t have a sweet side hustle? Prepare for a dessert so daring, even your zucchinis will be green with envy. It’s time to let rhubarb
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Peach Cookies Recipe This peach cookies recipe comes to you from the princess of peaches, of Mushroom Kingdom! In the land where sugar plum fairies gossip with mischievous gingerbread Toads, and the aroma of freshly baked cookies floats through the air with magic blocks, we’ll embark on a royal escapade. Princess Peach dons a chef’s hat
Peach Syrup Recipe: The Nectar of Podunk This ain’t your grandma’s peach syrup recipe – unless your grandma was a culinary genius with a wicked sense of humor. Here in Podunk, we take our peaches seriously, but our syrup-making? That’s where the fun begins! And if you’re itchin’ for more peachy ideas that’ll knock your socks
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Blackberry Syrup Recipe Get ready to embark on a rugged foraging expedition, harvesting wild blackberries to make blackberry syrup! Forget convenience; let’s make syrup-making an extreme sport, risking encounters with prickly bushes and feisty insects. Once you’ve survived the jungle, you can spend hours in the kitchen transforming these wild edibles into liquid gold. Get ready
DIY Goat House for Winter Spoil your goats next winter by building a safe, sturdy, and insulated goat house! Our shelter design not only pampers our doe divas, this goathouse stores hay in a convenient location for feeding, and includes an indoor hay feeder that significantly reduces the amount of hay the goats waste. The best
Raspberry Wine Recipe The elusive raspberry wine recipe – a secret elixir for gardeners who’ve mastered the art of taming those thorny little troublemakers who pretend to be a gift from your garden but secretly conspire to take over the world! If you’ve ever found yourself in a never-ending battle with these prolific berries, fret not,
Homemade Strawberry Muffin Recipe This strawberry muffin recipe is amazing because nothing’s better than plucking those ripe, ruby-red, delicious strawberry gems from your own backyard and turning them into a sassy strawberry muffin! Homegrown strawberries are much more delicious than store-bought (and lack those poisonous pesticides), and will make this muffins recipe an irresistible breakfast delight!
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The Ultimate Strawberry Cookie Experience: Fresh, Delicious, and Easy to Make Ever bite into a strawberry cookie and feel like you’ve just won the county fair baking contest? What if you could recreate that feeling using strawberries picked straight from your own backyard? These sweet little circles of joy might just be your first step toward
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Dandy Dandelion Recipes That’s right, folks – we’re talkin’ dandelion recipes that’ll revolutionize your kitchen, transforming those pesky yellow lawn invaders into culinary gold. Who’d have thunk that those sunny little troublemakers could be the secret ingredient to some downright delicious grub? Did you know studies rank dandelion greens as one of the top 41 most
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Dandelion Root Coffee: The Podunk Secret to a Healthy Buzz Ditch those unicorn frappuccinos! We’re going back to basics with Dandelion Root Coffee, a brew so down-to-earth, you’ll be digging it! Because in Podunk, we don’t need Starbucks. We got dandelions and grit! Craving more wild goodness? Mosey on over to our Dandelion Recipes list for the
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Dandelion Jelly: From Weed to OMG-Delicious! Ever tried a dandelion jelly recipe that turns pesky dandelions into pure gold? No? Well, let me introduce you to my grandpa—king of turning yard scraps into wonders. This recipe is so easy, even your city-slicker cousin could make it! It’s a nod to his hillbilly genius and a reminder that sometimes the
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Crispy Fried Dandelions Ready to turn those pesky lawn invaders into a fried dandelion delicacy? This ain’t your grandma’s garden club recipe (unless your grandma was a badass forager!). Get ready for a surprisingly tasty adventure that’ll have you laughing all the way to the frying pan. Craving more crazy-good recipes? Check out our Dandelion Recipes list. How I Discovered Fried Dandelions
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Pheasant Taco Recipe Be the “taco the town” after sharing this pheasant taco recipe! Pheasant tacos are a great way to enjoy your pheasant harvest. Shredded Pheasant Tacos Cooking a whole pheasant with the bone is incredibly healthy, and the pressure cooker makes the pheasant extremely easy to shred… it falls right off the bone! Ingredients
Ground Venison Sloppy Joes Recipe Since we’re using deer meat, we’ll call this recipe “Sloppy Does”. This ground venison sloppy joes recipe is made with a handful of ingredients, and is great for when your dinner plans are stuck in a rut. Another i-deer, use Hawaiian buns to add a bit more flavor to the sandwiches.
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Strawberry Rhubarb Jam Recipe Strawberries and rhubarb jam together like rhythm and blues. The sweetness of the strawberries provides a harmonious balance to the tartness of the rhubarb, and the punch of rhubarb adds a flavorful forte to the jam ensemble. The combination of the flavors is absolutely amazing! Easy Strawberry Rhubarb Jam Recipe Laziness is
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Pheasant Recipes: Tame Your Wild Side with These Finger-Lickin’ Dishes Welcome you backwoods gourmets and culinary daredevils! We’re about to dive beak-first into the world of pheasant recipes that’ll make your taste buds do the chicken dance. Whether you’ve bagged a brace of birds or sweet-talked your hunter buddy into sharing their stash, we’ve got the
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Roasted Pheasant Recipe Have you tried to cook pheasant, but it turned out a little fowl? Try this simple roasted pheasant recipe, it’s a wild game changer! You can season it with fresh herbs from your garden…. if you have the thyme. How to Make Roasted Pheasant This recipe makes enough to feed 4-6 people in
Homemade Pheasant Noodle Soup This delicious homemade pheasant soup will warm your soul. This old-fashioned pheasant noodle soup partners well with homemade dinner rolls, and is one of the most comforting comfort foods you’ll ever eat. Curious about the health benefits of wild pheasant? Check out our Pheasant Recipe Guide to learn why this game bird
The Best Pear Recipes for Pears Season August is the time when pears are ready for harvest. If you have a mature pear tree, you probably have so many pears that you’re not sure what to do with all of them. Pears are always good as a dessert dish, or served well with a scoop of
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The Best Blackberry Cookies Recipe There’s nothing quite like the aroma and taste of homemade blackberry cookies. And yes, you can make them too – no baking pro skills are needed! Not only are cookies the most popular homemade dessert, they are also healthier than anything you would find in the store. Plus, they make the
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The Best Pear Cookie You’ve probably never thought about making pear cookies before, but I guarantee that once you try them, they will become your go-to pear recipe! Cookies are the most popular homemade dessert. They are easy to make, healthier than store-bought, and are a convenient grab-and-go dessert. Easy Pear Cookie Recipe Baking your own
Pear Muffins Recipe This pear muffin recipe creates the perfect, delicate, airy muffin with a slightly crunchy sugar crust topping. The delicious contrast in texture will make this your favorite muffin recipe. Easy Pear Recipes The secret to baking the best pear muffins is to use real butter (not oil) and milk. Butter gives off a
Canning Pears Recipe Canning pears in a light syrup is a great way to preserve your pear harvest. Enjoy eating your canned pears later as a side dish, in oatmeal, or use them to make pear muffins, pear cookies, or pear cobbler. Ingredients Needed for Canning Pears Equipment Needed for Canned Pears This list includes Amazon
The Best Strawberry Jam Recipe Ever Strawberry jam is a great way to preserve strawberries from the garden to enjoy later. Strawberry jam tastes great on toast, on pancakes, in cookies, in oatmeal, and more. How to Make Strawberry Jam Strawberries are not high in natural pectin, so it will take more sugar to thicken the
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Are you ready for strawberry season, fellow Podunkers? Hold onto your overalls, ’cause we’re about to trade in those bland, pesticide-covered store-bought berries for some homegrown goodness that’ll knock your socks off faster than a tornado in a trailer park! Imagine yourself lounging in your backyard, plucking nature’s candy right off the vine, tasting sweeter than
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Rhubarb Season Quick Facts Welcome to rhubarb season—where tart meets tradition in gardens across Podunk! It’s that magical time of year when Midwesterners flex their green thumbs and their pie-making skills. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or someone who accidentally killed a succulent once, this sturdy plant keeps on giving – if you treat it right.
Perfect Rhubarb Muffins This recipe creates the perfect, delicate, airy muffin with a slightly crunchy sugar crust topping. The delicious contrast in texture will make this your favorite muffin recipe. The Best Rhubarb Muffins Recipe The secret to baking the best muffins is to use real butter (not oil) and milk. Butter gives off a better
Old Fashioned Rhubarb Jam Recipe Rhubarb jam is a great way to preserve rhubarb from the garden to enjoy later. Rhubarb jam tastes great on toast, on pancakes, in cookies, in oatmeal, and more. How to Make the Best Rhubarb Jam Rhubarb is not high in natural pectin, so it will take more sugar to thicken
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Simple Rhubarb Wine Recipe Homemade rhubarb wine is easy to make, and takes only a few ingredients. While many people do not like raw rhubarb, it tastes much better cooked into a dessert or dish. Rhubarb wine is a sweet wine that tastes similar to rosé wine. If you’re new to the world of homemade wine,
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Easy Tomato Wine Recipe Did you know that you can make wine out of tomatoes? Tomato wine is a great way to utilize an over-abundant tomato garden! Just set it, and forget it, and you’ll enjoy a fermented adult beverage around New Year’s. If you’re new to this winemaking adventure, be sure to check out our
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Easy Watermelon Moonshine Recipe Ferment your own shine with our watermelon moonshine recipe using just a few ingredients. Old fashioned watermelon moonshine is a light tasting alcoholic beverage, preserving the juicy flavor of watermelon. It’s like summer in a bottle! If you’re new to the art of winemaking, don’t worry—check out our Ultimate Guide on How
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This perfect Cranberry Wine Recipe is like turning a tart harvest into liquid gold! Are you drowning in cranberries and wondering what magical concoction you can create? This recipe transforms those ruby-red berries into a sophisticated adult beverage that’ll make your friends green with envy. If you’re new to the world of home winemaking and want
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This dandelion wine recipe is gonna surprise you more than a Midwest summer thunderstorm. Let me tell ya, folks, this batch of sunshine isn’t just any ol’ hooch. It’s a Podunk specialty that’ll have you feeling like you’re sittin’ pretty on cloud nine. So here I am, about to share with you the most rewarding adventure
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Fixing Our Leaky Old Stone Basement Our kids are getting older, and we decided it was time to fix up the basement and build a hangout spot for them. In order to fix up the old stone basement, we had to fix the limestone foundation walls that were allowing rain to enter the basement. We would
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Are your dinner plans stuck in a rut? Try this Venison Shepherd’s Pie recipe (also known as Hunter’s Pie). The start of deer archery season coincides with the fall vegetable harvest, making this recipe great to utilize all harvest types. No luck this deer or elk season? Use ground beef instead of ground venison, and make
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All the goodness and rich flavor of pumpkin pie, fermented down into an amazing fall adult beverage. Homemade pumpkin moonshine makes great gifts for weddings, adult birthdays, and holidays. This pumpkin pie moonshine is extremely easy to make. In fact, the hardest part of making pumpkin spice moonshine, is waiting for it to ferment. If you’re
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One of the Best Lumpia Recipes Ever Here is one of the best, easy beef lumpia recipes I’ve found. I actually use ground venison instead of beef, but the recipe could be used for either without alterations. (I’m fortunate enough to be able to hunt deer in the corn belt, so the deer I eat has
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Heated Garage Floor for Fixing Things The secret to living in Podunk USA is being able to fix just about anything. In order to fix things, you’ll need tools. In order to find your tools when you need them, you’ll need a garage or shop. When things break in the winter, fixing them in a heated
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Do you have a cherry tree or two? This homemade cherry pie moonshine recipe requires only a few simple ingredients and a little patience to wait for fermentation. This recipe can also make cherry wine (with or without adding grapes)! If you’re new to the world of homemade spirits, check out our Ultimate Guide on How
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