Over 100 made from scratch recipes ranging from old fashioned baked goods and meals to modern recipes featuring less sugar and gluten free options.
We also have recipes and tips for home food preservation. Methods include canning, dehydrating, freeze drying, infusions, ferments, homemade wines and more.
Figuring out how to make seasoned croutons at home is something I should have tackled years ago, but I never gave it much thought. Sure, I dried bread crumbs, but I never bothered with flavorings. Lately my eldest and I have been eating a lot of salads, and he likes to include seasoned croutons in…
This is a guest post from Jennifer Downing of Nourish about cooking with herbs. I love my vegetable garden. It’s tucked in the corner of the yard surrounded by a white picket fence. It makes me happy. Buzzing with honey bees from our hive, bushels of beans and towering tomatoes, this modest garden produces a…
Oh, the joys of Do It Yourself Laundry and Household Cleaners! They’re CHEAP, SIMPLE to make, and don’t contain any scientific names that you can’t begin to pronounce! In this post I’m going to share with you a few uses of those cheap items that you probably already have in your kitchen. Chances are your…
When rhubarb is in abundance, it’s a great time to preserve some of the bounty. This spring I made up two types of rhubarb sauce for canning; a batch of savory rhubarb Victoria sauce (left), which is basically a rhubarb barbeque sauce, and some rhubarb-orange compote (right). Unique and flavorful, these recipes are great for…
If you’ve tried the 30 minute mozzarella cheese and the fromage blanc cheese (or even if you haven’t) and would like to tackle a slightly more challenging cheese recipe, then you may be ready to to learn how to make cottage cheese. Homemade cottage cheese can be ready for eating fresh or using in recipes…