Today I am making Dill Cabbage Soup and need chicken broth, so I decided to make some. Making chicken broth really is quite simple and only takes a couple of hours. It is rich and flavorful and really does make a difference in the flavor of homemade soups. Stock uses bones and vegetables whereas broth…
Author: Our City Homestead
Orange Carrot Salad
I grew up all my life asking mom to make “carrots with orange juice,” which she got from gramma. It’s simple to make and tastes great the next day. It’s similar to Moroccan Orange Carrot Salad which also has orange blossom water, chopped orange, salt, sugar, lemon juice and cinnamon. My Romanian gramma kept it…
Cayenne Pepper Sauce
This summer, my daughter grew an assortment of peppers, including cayenne peppers. This is the first time we have grown cayenne peppers, so we did not know what to expect. Turns out, the cayenne grew a lot of peppers and we picked quite a few in the latter part of the summer!! We harvested the…
Pear Jelly
I made pear fruit, just like gramma used to do, so we can enjoy pears while it’s cold and the snow is blowing outside! With the pear scraps, I tossed them into a pot, topped it up with water and cooked it for a few hours. I left it sit overnight and then I strained…
Garden Update – September 2025
Happy September!! It’s hard to believe that fall is soon upon us! This month has been busy with harvesting the garden and preserving our harvest. Not only did we do Harvest Week again this year in which we harvested the majority of our garden on our city homestead, but we also had to harvest our…
Zucchini Corn Chowder
We have lots of corn from our garden this year and my mom gave us a bunch of zucchini, so I froze some, and then made this delicious Zucchini Corn Chowder. Chowder is a thick, hearty soup that has a cream or milk base and loaded with vegetables or seafood. In today’s vegetable chowder, we…
Canning Homemade Pasta Sauce
We were gifted some cherry tomatoes so we decided to use these tomatoes along with some tomatoes we had purchased from the farmers market and make pasta sauce to can and enjoy it during the winter months. It’s such a great way to preserve those tomatoes! We are using Parsley and Greek Basil from our…
Homemade Salsa to Can
It’s the season of canning and preserving! We bought some “salsa” tomatoes this past Tuesday from a local farm, and now that they’re ripe, we decided to make a batch of salsa that we can enjoy this winter. This is the first time I’ve ever made salsa to can. It tastes great already! We used…
