A better dry biscuit mix for making field expedient quick breads on bushcrafting trips.

Firing 1867 Dutch Snider

A simple solution for misaligned cylinder cranes on Colt DA revolvers.

A quick dish for busy days and you still want to have a decent meal.

A quick way to make delicious corn tortillas.

Making masa harina by nixtamalizing corn for better nutrition.

Homemade fajitas beats the restaurant style any day of the week. The flavor doesn’t compare.

Grinding heirloom red cornbread for fresh made cornbread from scratch

I haven’t been using a grindstone for very long, but now that I have….. I’m hooked on it. I haven’t been using a granite grindstone for very long but I’ve adapted to it quickly. There’s a lot of grinders on the market that are much better than mine. I wasn’t sure at first how much I’d like doing this so I went for a stone that was moderately priced. There are a few drawbacks and I’m looking for a better model later on. The stipulation is that it has to be hand cranked… for a

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

Chewy chocolate chip cookies are the best

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...

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 short period of time. I must be delusional today, because I decided it would be “fun” to try to make my own corn tortillas for homemade Tex-Mex. Little did I understand how labor intensive this project would become. I’m sure that once I’m not bumbling my way through this, things will get better. Blue corn I started off with an heirloom qual

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...

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...

I start off the grind with whole wheat berries from my storage area. This bag indicates that this is Organic Summer (OS) wheat packaged in 2015. While flour itself only has a one year shelf life, whole wheat berries can last 30 plus years in proper storage. I ordered my bluestone granite mill from Amazon for a reasonable price. Check it out here…. Stored wheat berries Why grind your own flour, when you can buy it fairly cheap in a grocery store ? Well, for one thing store bo

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 out fairly well. But not bread. It needs to follow a specific recipe, because if it’s too wet, the dough may not rise. If it’s too dry, you end up with a mouthful of flour and a loaf that doesn’t hold together. Everything is mixed together in precise measurements to form a really delicious bread after baking. So here’s my recipe for a dark

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 had some picnic tables out — and it wouldn’t be crowded. This time I was going to get serious about the picnic. I broke out the bigger portable oven that’s wood fired. As per usual, the prep work was done at home beforehand so I could concentrate on the cooking and eating. The portable kitchen Anything that can be cooked or baked at home c

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...

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