Categories: Homesteader // Homemaker
When we first moved to our off grid home in Canada’s Northwest Territories, we had no idea how to apply our idea of “homesteading” to this seemingly barren and extremely remote area. And honestly, as a career financial advisor, most of what I knew about homesteading came from books….
One of my favorite childhood memories is of sitting at the kitchen table while my mom made pies!
Often the pies where for special occasions and her hands would work so fast and efficiently making a dozen pies or more. Sometimes the pies where for a much anticipated event like Christmas with the cousins or a neighborhood bake sale. But no matter the reason, when mom was making pies my siblings and I gathered around the table to watch, play with dough scraps and lick the spoons and bowls of pie filling…
Building a levain
In order to bake with your starter, you have to build it up. How I do this is pour about ½ cup of starter that needs to be fed into a bowl leaving about ½ cup in the jar. Feed what’s in your jar like normal then set it aside. Add ½ cup of flour and ½ cup of
water to your bowl of starter, stir it around, and let it sit for awhile…
Alaska is a place unlike any other that I’ve visited. It is the kind of place where you go to visit, but never leave because its hooks sink deep into your heart and make you feel home.
It was like this for my husband and I as pilots from Idaho who both ventured to Alaska before we knew each other. After we graduated college, met, and got married, and had the opportunity to work in bush Alaska as newlyweds. We never felt more home.
