Our Featured Blog This Week – Live, Ready, Now Before I dive into my blog posting this week I have to share with all of you our blog that is being featured this week is my virtual friend Rose Petal’s site Live, Ready, Now.  Rose Petal and her family are living off grid and Rose …

90+ Gluten Free Recipes For The Holidays! Sometimes being gluten-free is tough and us gluten-free folks and the Paleo folks too sit along the sidelines during the holidays bummed that we cannot partake of all the flour filled goodies! But that is no more because this year I bring to you a plethora of Gluten …

Why would you render your own lard?  I know many of us immediately equate lard to bad but it just simply is not true!  We have been lied to by the food industry that all fats are bad and hydrogenated fats are bad this is true but natural animal fats, coconut oil, and butter are …

As you all know we are celebrating our 3rd Birthday all month-long and every Friday this month we are having a giveaway so that you can be part of the celebration! This honey is from our apiary “The Winsome Roost” where we take great care not to use any pesticides in and or around our …

I am under a spell….it is the spell of my garden in summertime.  I walk outside and their is beautiful home grown food and beauty in abundance in my backyard and it just brings me joy!  I want to share with all of you a journey through my garden in the summer! Wish I could …

First of all I have to start this blog post off saying this isn’t my recipe I give my sister-in-law credit for this recipe however in her email to me when she sent me the recipe she doesn’t take credit for the recipe either.  That being said since she is the one who introduced me …

Saturday I just enjoyed some time outside it was beautiful and just taking some pictures of my chickens….they never cease to entertain me….. Sure cleaning out the coop is not easy and making sure they have dry nesting materials and all the things you do when you love your chickens involves time etc….but the eggs …

It was very good Rachael Ray’s Parchment Leg of Lamb recipe……I used a Trader Joe’s Leg of Lamb with the pop up timer..it turned out tender and wonderful and the flavors were amazing!   I did modify her recipe slightly as I modify all recipes I make for example in this recipe I did not …

This month we celebrate our Lil’ Suburban Homestead’s 3rd Birthday!  We have an exciting month ahead and I am so glad you are all joining in on the celebration! Here is the line up for this month!   Each Friday we will have a giveaway post and details will be included with each post!   …

I’m back this week with another Suburban Off-Grid Cooking Series No. 2 in this series and we are going to be talking about the “All American Sun Oven” and I have to tell you I am falling in love with this product.  I am now starting to wonder how I ever did without it. I …