From Scratch Food Recipe Index

The At Home on the Homestead Recipe Index is a curated collection of simple, yet delicious, from scratch food recipes.

Each recipe is intended to bring the homestead directly to your table, celebrating the flavors of each season with simple ingredients we all love.

Our Popular From Scratch Food Categories

grow your own

baked
a stack of perfect buttery waffles on a white plate.

Breakfast

Dinner

Desserts

drinks

Canning
Homemade 3 ingredient gravy in a crystal jar with a full meal spread behind it.

Condiments

raise your own

Dive into cooking from scratch in a way that will empower you to learn new skills in feeding your family.
Browse our popular categories to find new inspiration that is well loved by others, or, find a recipe that uses your favorite cooking method, or whatever protein you already have on hand.

Breakfast
Baked
Dinner
Desserts
A clock of egg laying chickens being fed so that they lay eggs for from scratch food recipes.

The Egg Flock

A flock of white meat chickens in a chicken tractor that are being raised to provide meat for from scratch food recipes.

The Meat Birds

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Keeping Your Own Chickens

With their production of meat for the freezer, and fresh eggs daily, chickens make an ideal addition to any homestead or backyard. Tending to these feathered friends provides versatile source of ingredients for your favorite recipes. Keeping Chickens is a rewarding, and sustainable, way to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle.

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By Method
A woman is slicing a fresh loaf of french bread in her homestead kitchen.

Oven
Homemade 3 ingredient gravy in a crystal jar with a full meal spread behind it.

Stove top
An instant pot that is being filled with raw milk to make raw milk yogurt from scratch.

Instant pot
A jar lifter is lifting a jar of ground venison out of a pressure canner in a homestead kitchen.

canner
By protein
A cow is being tended to by a woman homesteader to raise fresh beef for from scratch food recipes.

Beef
A flock of white meat chickens gathered around a red waterer that are being raised to provide meat for from scratch food recipes.

Chicken
A woman is cradling a clutch of colorful eggs in her sweatshirt from her pasture raised chickens.

Eggs
An image of a rural road leading to hunting land where venison can be harvested for from scratch food recipes.

Venison

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