Welcome to The Rootsy Kitchen, where simple, from-scratch cooking meets the timeless art of food preservation.
Alongside easy baking mix treats, allergen-friendly substitutions, and waste-cutting kitchen hacks, you’ll also find guides to canning garden harvests and fermenting foods for long-term flavor and nutrition.
Whether you’re simmering a batch of jam, learning to ferment sauerkraut, or whipping up quick weeknight dinners, Rootsy helps you make the most of every ingredient while keeping meals wholesome, practical, and full of homemade goodness.
Simple syrup is one of the most versatile things you can make in a home kitchen — it’s the base for canning fruit, moistening cakes, and sweetening cocktails and drinks. Making an old-fashioned simple syrup is as easy as boiling water and sugar together. Depending on the ratio you can make a super heavy syrup …
Fermented tomatoes are a great way to preserve small bits of the abundant crop for snacking, salads, appetizers and more. Making lacto-fermented cherry tomatoes is an easy preservation project that only takes a few minutes to pull together and less than a week to ferment. Cherry tomatoes are a perfect vegetable for fermenting because they …
Make the most of summer’s most amazing delights with these fresh fruit cookies. Use any fresh fruit you have on hand and prefer in this super simple recipe. These also happen to be vinegar cookies. And while it might seem strange, the vinegar helps give the cookies a lightness that can’t be denied and no …
Fermented vegetables are a great and tasty way to preserve the summer harvest. Fermentation recipes are basic and flavorful while also adding a healthy does of probiotics to our preserves and meals. The great thing about learning how to ferment vegetables is that the technique is relatively simple, requiring only water, salt, veggies and time. …
In many climates, strawberries and rhubarb are in season at the same time, which makes this low-sugar strawberry rhubarb jam recipe a great way to preserve the harvest. This small batch recipe is a bit different than other strawberry-rhubarb jam recipes in that we added just a bit of balsamic vinegar that turns this humble …
Bake up this easy, old fashioned rhubarb custard pie for the most amazing springtime dessert. This decadent dessert is rich, creamy, and tart and yet incredibly easy to pull together for a pie that is sure to delight and make use of that ever abundant rhubarb. Simple Ingredients One of the best things about this pie …
Dandelion jelly is an amazing and easy way to use up and share common lawn weeds and wildflowers – make it even more special and flavorful by infusing lavender. UPDATE 2024: There has been some concern over dandelion jelly (and other flower jellies) with the University of Wisconsin pulling their canned dandelion jelly recipe instructions. …
Potato Leek Soup is a classic comfort food that is easy to make and incredibly delicious. In this blog post, we’ll share our favorite recipe and tips for creating the perfect creamy and flavorful soup. Whether you’re a seasoned cook or a beginner, this recipe is sure to become a family favorite. While potato soup …
Make this easy fermented garlic and honey for flavorful meals and some immunity boosting in one jar. Ferments can sometimes be fussy bits of preservation. But not with this easy garlic and honey ferment. This simple recipe goes by many other names, such as “honey fermented garlic”, “fermented honey and garlic”, “garlic infused honey”, or …
Apple pie cake gives you all the flavor of a homemade apple pie without the fuss of making pie crust. This apple pie cake doesn’t use a boxed cake mix, instead it uses pantry staples for a from scratch cake that your family will love. This simple apple cake recipe can be served as part …