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Sourdough Cornbread
Grinding heirloom red cornbread for fresh made cornbread from scratch

muleequestrian
Aug 292 min read


Homemade French Toast Breakfast
This is a great way to start the day. Homemade French toast

muleequestrian
Aug 242 min read


Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chewy chocolate chip cookies are the best

muleequestrian
Aug 232 min read


Homemade Spaghetti from Scratch
To start my spaghetti off…. It’s time to grind some flour extra fine. I like to use einkorn wheat for this because it’s an ancient grain...

muleequestrian
Aug 153 min read


Corn Tortillas with Blue Corn
I have stored away some food items for a rainy day. You can never tell when a natural disaster could strike, and leave you helpless for a...

muleequestrian
Aug 93 min read


Queso-nini or Pandilla ?
I’m stuck at Kendra’s house alone today. She borrowed my car and will be in town most of the day…. About 35 miles away. I’m here...

muleequestrian
Aug 42 min read


Panini Supreme
I’m kind of brand new to the panini sandwich. I’ve always thought they were supposed to be some “trendy” little things that fancy people...

muleequestrian
Jul 254 min read


Grinding Fresh Flour for Bread
I start off the grind with whole wheat berries from my storage area. This bag indicates that this is Organic Summer (OS) wheat packaged...

muleequestrian
Jul 223 min read


Baking Fresh Black Rye Bread
Bread is a little more involved than most of the other things I bake or cook. Mostly I just throw things together in the pan and it turns...

muleequestrian
Jul 203 min read


More Cooking on a Harley
It was such a nice day, I decided to load up the sidecar Harley with me, the dog, and some chow. We rode over to a lake where I knew they...

muleequestrian
Jul 132 min read


A Carved Knife Sheath
Oak leaves and acorns is one of my favorite patterns to carve into leather. It’s a pattern that has Germanic influences and is used on a...

muleequestrian
Jul 121 min read


Making Combustible Paper Cartridges
Modern sport shooters of black powder revolvers don’t realize that paper cartridges were the thing back in the day when these guns were...

muleequestrian
Jul 103 min read


Making a Tomahawk
Some folks will forge these out of a block of steel . I prefer a quicker and cheaper method. To make my hatchet or tomahawk, I draw out a...

muleequestrian
Jul 103 min read


Making Handmade Fire Tools
I decided I needed some new cooking tools for my fire pit. I ended up getting talked out of my older ones by someone. I looked around the...

muleequestrian
Jul 102 min read


Getting Down and Dirty with Beer Brewing
I know, I know. You’re going to roll your eyes and say — does this nut actually brew his own beer ? Yes I do when I have the time. Beer...

muleequestrian
Jun 234 min read


An Introduction to Brewing Beer
What lover of fine brew doesn’t eventually play around with brewing their own beer ? Once you hang around breweries and develop a taste...

muleequestrian
Jun 232 min read


Pattern Welded Damascus Steel
Pattern welded Damascus for knife making is made from two types of material forge welded together. Using high heat and fluxed with borax...

muleequestrian
Jun 222 min read


Whole Wheat Loaf Twist
Bread with visual appeal

muleequestrian
Jun 181 min read


The M78 Swiss Vetterli Rifle
I won’t go into detail about this rifle, except to say that there’s quite a few of them on the surplus market today. Most of them are in...

muleequestrian
Jun 183 min read


My Best Black Powder Lubricant
There’s all sorts of newer gee whiz gun oils on the market these days. To me, one is about as good as another, based on my usage...

muleequestrian
Jun 183 min read
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