How to Make Homemade Ice Cream

Manual Ice Cream Maker

©2011 Shanna Ohmes

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!  Spring quickly turns into 100° days of summer and one of the most delicious ways to cool down is to learn how to make ice cream using milk and cream from your homestead goat or cow.

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How to Make Homemade Raw Butter and Whipped Cream

Azure Butter Bell

©2011 Shanna Ohmes

Nothing tastes as good as fresh homemade butter on your garden veggies or just made whipped cream to dollop on your home grown strawberries.  You can make your own butter from raw cream from your cow or a share in a cow from a local homesteader.  You can also use cream . . . → Read More: How to Make Homemade Raw Butter and Whipped Cream

Cheese Press for Making Hard Cheddar, Colby and White Cheeses

Cheese Press [320x200]

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at learning how to make hard cheeses like cheddar, Colby and hard white cheeses, then a Cheese Press is an essential tool for your homestead kitchen.  The best cheese press on the market today has been designed at The CheeseMaker with a heavy-duty . . . → Read More: Cheese Press for Making Hard Cheddar, Colby and White Cheeses

Deluxe Mozzarella and Ricotta Cheese Making Kit

Click here to learn more about the Deluxe Mozzarella and Ricotta Cheese Making Kit

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

If you have never had fresh homemade mozzarella cheese for your homemade pizza, you really don’t know what you are missing out on!  A friend of mine made her own fresh mozzarella and other cheeses from her wonderful Jersey cow’s milk and when I tasted it for the first time . . . → Read More: Deluxe Mozzarella and Ricotta Cheese Making Kit

A Beginner’s Guide to Raising Goats

Click here to get your copy of A Beginner's Guide to Raising Goats today!

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

I raised goats for many years, all for different purposes.  I was raised on raw goats milk and when I had my own children, I went back to raising goats for them.  As long as we were on raw goats milk we had fewer to no health problems.  I made lots . . . → Read More: A Beginner’s Guide to Raising Goats

Yogurt Cheese and How to Use It

©2009 Shanna Ohmes

Yogurt and yogurt cheese have been a part of traditional diets for 8,000 years.  Yogurt is made from fermented milk and yogurt cheese is made from the yogurt.  To make the yogurt cheese you strain the whey from the curds and what is left is a soft spreadable cheese.  This cheese . . . → Read More: Yogurt Cheese and How to Use It

How to Make Almond Milk, A Lactose and Soy Free Alternative to Cows Milk

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

Many people are allergic or intolerant to cows milk, even from pastured cows.  And goats milk is known universally as the best alternative to cows milk, but sometimes it can be hard to find, or, it can even cause an intolerance.  And we now know that soy products, unless fermented, are . . . → Read More: How to Make Almond Milk, A Lactose and Soy Free Alternative to Cows Milk

Mozarella Cheese Kit Giveaway!

Have you ever thought about making your own cheese?  Mozarella is one of the easier cheeses to make and it’s fun!  Nothing compares with homemade mozarella on a handmade pizza.   You will never go back to store-bought again!  The flavor is more intense and it looks absolutely beautiful melted over that pizza you made . . . → Read More: Mozarella Cheese Kit Giveaway!

How and Where to Find Local, Organic and Sustainable Foods

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

Congratulations!  After much research , you have joined the Food Revolution, decided to cook more from scratch, encouraged your kids to eat ‘real food’ (and maybe even your husband), but you are at an impasse.  How and where do you find local, grass-fed, organic, sustainable, free-range, pastured, traditional, just plain real . . . → Read More: How and Where to Find Local, Organic and Sustainable Foods

Herbal Butters

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

Herbal butters are delicious and easy to make for many of your recipes. They add flair and zest to the simplest of meals.  Herbal butters, also known as compound butters, are simply fresh or dried herbs, spices or seasonings mixed with butter.  After making your herbed butter, it should be refrigerated . . . → Read More: Herbal Butters

Sauerkraut and Pickle Crocks

Sauerkraut and Pickling Crocks and Supplies

Cultures for Health

Cultures for Health