A simple dessert recipe that is easy to make.

A small light weight handmade aluminum cook stove.

A simple to make side dish, or it can be the main dish easily.

A lot of recipes exist for potato skins. Most people use russet potatoes and there’s nothing wrong with that at all. But I prefer smaller potatoes with a thinner skin. Why ? Because you don’t have to overcook them to make sure they’re done. My favorite is the Adirondack golds, although sometimes I use the reds. I scrub the potatoes and leave the peel on them. I place about 4 of them in the air fryer for roughly 40 minutes until they’re tender. I stab a couple holes with a

I hammered out a tiny wok for making stir fry out in the backwoods while camping.

For my own personal holsters, I kind of prefer the simplest plainer style. So recently I made myself a “taco style” holster that folds and wraps around the pistol. I wanted something for my old M1917 Colt New Service revolver. I wanted something that I could knock around in the backwoods with and it didn’t need to be fancy or pretty. It needs to be utilitarian and built like a tank. Keep in mind this is not a step by step tutorial, but it will give you an idea of how I make

These cookies are really good. They are not too sweet for diabetics, and they are light, fluffy, and easy to make. INGREDIENTS: ▢ 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour ▢ 1/2 cup butter unsalted, room temp ▢ 1 cup peanut butter ▢ 1/2 cup maple syrup instead of sugar ▢ 1/2 cup coconut sugar ▢ 1 tsp vanilla extract ▢ 1 egg large, room temp ▢ 3/4 tsp baking powder A few of the ingredients. INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat over to 350F Sift flour and baking powder together then whisk to combine. Cr

I decided to experiment some more with my long term storage foods that I keep on hand for camping and for emergencies. I live in a fairly remote part of Maine, (by choice) and sometimes in winter the power gets knocked out when snow tips the trees over onto power lines. Not to mention that I often haul my camping gear out into the backwoods for up to a week or more at a time during warmer months. So today I broke out some of my baggies of freeze dried stuff. Freeze dried bee

I’m pretty much an experimenter as far as food can go. Hey — I have a dog, so if it doesn’t turn out OK, I got an automatic “garbage disposal” of sorts. All except for ingredients that dogs can’t eat without getting sick. Today’s kitchen experiment was using just a few ingredients to make this dish. I have a box of ditalini pasta, and some freeze dried components, so let’s experiment ! I started off with about 2/3 cup of freeze dried beef crumbles. I add a cup of ditalin

A lot of times you can salvage an old gun when you think it's beyond repair. As long as the gun hasn't been in a house fire, it's probably salvageable. Recently I had an old Winchester 94 come in that was pretty badly rusted. Bluing wasn't going to help because of how deep the rust pits were. Also, the bolt was rusted in the receiver. This looks like a custom job. ... The first thing I did was scrap the old stock set. Then I sandblasted the rust off the action and polished i

Next, I turned my attention to making a new stock. And since we're going wild here on this project, I wasn't going to make any old wood stock work. Instead of a factory replacement, I opted to carve one from a tree stump. My intention is to make a gunstock with a blend of wood and colored epoxy…. Sort of like one of those nice waterfall tables you see these days. I built a mold from thin plexiglass to put the stump wood in. I mixed two part epoxy with some blue dye, and po

Now I am ready to carve a stock blank. I put the blank in my stock duplicator and began to cut. Here's the rough carved stock. It’s got a long way to go before it’s ready. You can see it shows well in the Sunlight. The epoxy part of the stock is see through,

Now I begin the process of sanding the stock and fitting it to the rifle action. I start with 80 grit to get the roughness of carving smoothed, then work my way down to 220 grit. The project is progressing nicely. At this point I’m down to 400 grit sandpaper. The first of several coats of clear epoxy finish on the stock. There's a lot of burl, and spalt in the stump wood. Spalt is a type of fungus that grows in the wood and gives it interesting color patterns. The tree s

The beginning of the end of the project. I carved a new fore end and gave it the same epoxy treatment. The buttplate was cast from an original in a mold from the same blue epoxy, mixed with just a touch of teal green to make it look separate from the stock. The gun had the new stocks fitted. I gave the barrel and magazine tube a slow rust blue that results in a deep dark blue / black finish. The receiver got a gloss clear spray on Cerakote to protect the color case harde

This is a tasty lasagna made with a pasta substitute. It’s especially good for those of us who are raging diabetics, and need to find a way of keeping our blood sugar levels lower.

This tasty salmon roll recipe just totally rocks. It’s easy to make, and gives you a whole new perspective on fish for dinner.

This noodle dish is great for diabetics and people on a keto diet. Very few carbohydrates and really high in fiber. The flavor is awesome too.

In this video I shoot a Swiss Vetterli rifle converted from rimfire to centerfire cartridges. The rifle is an early model of repeating bolt action rifles and was a game changer for the Swiss military at the time. The Swiss Vetterli was magazine fed from the beginning in 1869, but later the mechanism was adapted to a single shot Italian Vetterli rifle with a slightly longer cartridge. But even the Italian Vetterli was adapted to be a repeater with a 4 shot box magazine, instea

A quick to cook dish that just tastes AMAZING.

Throwing together some leftovers for breakfast.