Just a note... if you would like a cookbook signed by the West Ladies, please leave a note in the "special delivery/comments" on your order page and we will gladly sign it for you! Also, please specify if and who you may like it signed to and the proper spelling of any names. Thank you, and many happy homestead cooking days to you!

After many months {possibly years} of writing, editing, cooking, editing again and finally off to the printer- we are so excited to annouce that the Homestead Blessings Cookbook is now available at our website www.homestead-blessings.com !!! Yeah!!!!

Full of lots of pictures from the homestead kitchen and garden, hand sketched drawings by Mama, stories and tips from the farm and over 150 recipes that are easy, fun and centered around the home and farm.

 

                                       Recipes for homemade breads and Lemon Meringue Pie...

                         and also recipes for canning pickles, relishes and produce right from the garden!

So gather 'round in the kitchen and open up the Homestead Blessings Cookbook to try new recipes and have some good 'ole fashioned family fun! We hope this book will be a blessing to you and your homestead!

 

www.homestead-blessings.com 

                                                           Broccoli harvested last  month

                          Elderberry flowers that we gather to dry and make tea with in the wintertime

                                                Little kitty taking a nap on the front porch

                         Jasmine and Julia are working on editing the Homestead Blessings cookbook

                                                          Ready for blackberry pickin'?

                                                                      Black Gold

Believe it or not, this picture was taken at the crack of noon, in the middle of a major thunderstorm. It got so dark in the house that we needed the lamps to see by.

                     Canning "pineapple" from zucchini, using pineapple juice and raw sugar.

It tastes just like pineapple and you can use it as you would in any recipe calling for pineapple. This recipe is just one of the many handy homestead recipes you can find in our upcoming cookbook!!!

Today we canned green tomatoes, also using the recipe out of our cookbook. As you can see, Jasmine is reading from the sample copy that we just got back form the printers!

The complete, finished Homestead Blessings Cookbook, is coming soon, so keep checking our website!

www.homestead-blessings.com 

                                                                    The Cabbage Patch

                                                                 The Broccoli Patch

                         Mom and Mrs. Stowe working on the cookbook, it will be out soon Lord willing!

                                               Chore list on the chalk board earlier this spring

                                       Clean laundry on the line is always such a lovely thing to see

                                 Little Rhode Island Red hens growing big in their chicken tractor

                        Blueberries soon to be harvested from the patch on the hill behind the house

                             The apples are looking beautiful too. Can't wait till apple harvest this fall!

 

               Tonto, the lone ranger in the horse pasture now. Maybe we'll have a sidekick for him soon. :)

                                              Meadow wildflowers growing in the top pasture.

 Country roads taking us home.

Homestead Happenings

Well we have been busy making bread, sewing dolls, cooking maple syrup and getting ready for spring. The air has warmed up quite a bit outside and the spring birds are singing. Speaking of birds, I have had fun taking pictures of robins, chickens and our goats. The goats love to nibble on my apron when I'm taking their picture. They don't hold still either, just jump around and such. :)

We have been working on the cookbook, trying out new dishes and deserts, we'll all have to do a lot of juicing after this!! Hah, hah!

Hopefully we'll have some more pictures up soon . Until then...

                                                                           Blessings,

                                                                                Vicki for the West Family

A little bit of alot of news...

Well it has been a very busy and exciting summer for us here at Homestead Blessings. Gardening, canning, swimming in the creek, cleaning house, farming, hauling hay and fellowshiping with other like minded believers on the front porch while the sun sank west over the hills. We have had some cooler weather already, a little early this year I think. The other morning we had a fire going in our wood cookstove and it felt so nice and cozy. We are always greatful for fall to come, bringing the cooler beautiful weather and bluegrass festivals in eastern Tennessee. Bluegrass festivals are a wonderful part of our lives and we always look froward to going to them and hearing good music, eating good food and meeting new people. We are currently working on the "Homestead Blessings Cookbook" which will be out sometime this fall, we're hoping. Also coming up soon we'll be filming the next three Homestead Blessings DVD's, so keep an eye out for them. Well,take care ya'll, and may you have many God given homestead blessings!