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Home » Cook » Ingredients and How-To's

Ingredients & How-To's

Get back to the basics and learn how to cook with simple ingredients in a way that enhances their flavor and texture.

Our "how-to" articles will help you know how to properly prepare harvest-fresh vegetables like radishes or beets, where to boost the flavor of your meals with herbs like sage, or even use more unusual foods like burdock root. Many of these recipes use traditional methods like cooking with cast iron so we'll show you how to care for cookware that will last a lifetime.

You'll also find simple food preservation methods as well as learn how to make starters for fermentations such as a turmeric bug for your naturally fermented soda creations!

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How to Make Sourdough Starter

Learning how to make a sourdough starter is the first step to baking any delicious sourdough bread that the heart desires. This is a simple process that takes minimal effort, and the main ingredient is time as with all fermented foods. Using some sourdough starter in bread recipes is a healthy alternative, as it improves…

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How to Cook Winter Squash: 10 Easy Recipes

Winter squash recipes are on my table 2 to 3 nights a week during the fall and winter seasons. Winter squash is one of my absolute favorite vegetables! They are hearty and filling, the perfect cold-weather food. There are many different ways to prepare it, some more elaborate and fancy than others, but it doesn’t…

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15+ Ways to Preserve Peppers: Freeze, Can, Dry, Ferment & More!

Preserving peppers is an end-of-summer task that might have you wondering which method is best. When faced with a bumper crop of peppers in the garden, it’s not practical to try to eat them all within their ripeness window. I’ve gathered up 15+ of the very best ways to store peppers including how to can,…

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How to Make a Fermented Turmeric Bug

This fermented turmeric bug is simple to make and the perfect thing for making naturally fermented sodas. A turmeric bug is similar to a ginger bug but made with fresh turmeric root instead. With a gentle warming and subtly spicy flavor making for a lovely ferment, a turmeric bug is easy to make and perfect…

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How to Cook Turnips and Turnip Greens

Turnips are an underrated vegetable, but many people aren’t aware how delicious they are! Turnips are actually two for one deal, because the greens are edible as well. Roasted turnips and sauteed turnip greens are easy to cook and the perfect addition to any meal! Turnips: Two Vegetables in One Turnips are a vegetable people…

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How to Oven Roast Hatch Chile Peppers

Learn how to oven roast green chile peppers to throw a whole lot of flavor and a little bit of heat into your meals. Hatch green chile peppers have a short season from late summer to early autumn, and are perfect for preserving. Literally get them while they’re hot and enjoy them all year round!…

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8 Ways to Eat Radishes and Radish Greens

Radishes are a vegetable that are sometimes hard for people to get excited about. The truth is that radishes are amazing! Not only that, but they are a tasty treat straight from the dirt, no processing required. The best part is you get two veggies in one, the root and the greens – yes you…

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15+ Ways to Preserve Zucchini: Freeze, Can, Ferment, and Dehydrate

Some summers are zucchini summers, and we are in the midst of one right now! Preserving zucchini to last through the winter is actually easy to do. There are four main methods for how to preserve zucchini: freezing, canning, fermenting, and dehydrating or drying. How to Preserve Zucchini Zucchini can sometimes grow a little bit…

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How to Cook Dried Beans: Easy, Healthy, and Cheap

In this tutorial you will find out everything you need to know to learn how to cook dried beans from scratch. With so many methods, you’ll find the one that is right for you, from the pros and cons of soaking vs not soaking, the varieties of beans to use, and how to use them,…

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10 Reasons to Grow Sage for your Garden, Food, and Health

For many people, sage is the ultimate autumnal herb. Savory recipes for roast turkey, stuffing, and squash are at their best when accompanied by the addition of fresh sage. What you may not realize, even if sage is a regular part of your cooking routine year-round, is how easy it is to grow fresh sage…

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