By Melissa Norris | Bread , Breakfast , Healthy Snacks , Main Dish , Miscellaneous , Recipes , Sides
144 zucchini recipes, because let’s face it, zucchini is probably the most prolific summer vegetable in the garden. Do you have zucchini coming out your ears? Yeah, me too. It seems most families have one or two ways they cook zucchini and that’s about it. Michelle says “I grew up with it pan fried. That’s […]
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Pumpkin applesauce muffins are a must, because ’tis the season for pumpkins and applesauce and they play so nice together. And because I can grow both of those items here on our homestead. I may have a slight addiction to trying to grow as much as possible when it comes to an ingredient list, you […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Dessert , Healthy Snacks , Recipes
I discovered this Easy Oatmeal Macaroons recipe in my grandmother’s recipe box, and right away I knew it was a recipe worth sharing. They are super-simple to make, only have a few ingredients, and most of the sweetness comes from dried fruit. This is a cookie I can feel good about eating! Although the original […]
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Grandma’s date bread recipe was born during war rationing, when sugar was scarce, inventive homemakers looked for other ways to sweeten baked goods. Honey, corn syrup, molasses, and maple syrup were often used as sweeteners, as well as dried fruits such as raisins and dates. This date bread recipe comes right from my grandmother’s recipe […]
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These old-fashioned pumpkin sugar cookies are easy to bake and taste like pumpkin pie in a cookie, except in my opinion, they’re better than pumpkin pie. Say what? Yep, I said it. Truthfully, I’m not such a big traditional pumpkin pie fan, but no bake pumpkin cream pie, pumpkin cheese cake, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread, […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Fermenting , Food Preservation , Healthy Snacks , Miscellaneous , Podcast , Recipes
Ever needed a fermented pickle recipe? Yes, the answer is yes. Fermented pickles are really just old-fashioned salt and water pickles, something your great-grandma knew how to make and had barrels full of fermenting pickles in a crock. They have a trendy name today as fermented foods are quickly becoming popular again, but they’re really […]
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Homemade peanut butter in less than 5 minutes. Yes, for reals. Why has no one ever told me making homemade peanut butter was so easy and so delicious? I mean it’s almost like a whipped butter, not heavy and separated out like the natural butters at the store. And no high fructose corn syrup, sugar, […]
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Homemade crackers in 5 minutes, and they can be made with regular all-purpose flour or swap in some whole wheat flour for homemade whole wheat crackers, for real. Either way, the dough whips up in 5 minutes. And let’s be honest, when you can make your own crackers with this little effort that have way […]
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Old-fashioned family recipes are as much of our Christmas traditions as putting up the tree. Just the scent or the first bite of a certain food can take me right back to years and people past. One of my favorite things about the holidays is baking our favorite treats and remembering those who gave them […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Dessert , Healthy Snacks , Recipes , Vintage
Are you looking for healthy treats for you and your kids? We are not the only generation to worry about the amount of sugar consumed by our young children. As I have been sorting through my great-grandmother’s recipes, I discovered a newspaper clipping dated 1952, where the Red Cross suggests substituting “Fruit Candies” in the […]
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