By Melissa Norris | Instant Pot/ Pressure Cooking , Main Dish , Recipes , Slow Cooker
This easy beef stew recipe is a favorite at our house. Even more so now that I’ve converted it to Instant pot beef stew, but no worries, you can use your slow cooker if you haven’t joined the Instant pot craze. But I warn you, once you go Instant Pot, you’ll never go back. One […]
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Healthy chicken broccoli casserole recipe that tastes as good as it is for you… and best part, topped with biscuits. If you’re doing low carb, gluten-free, or keto, rest assured my friends, you can still eat this bad boy. If you’re not worried about low carb, never fear, this is delicious topped with my Flaky […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Instant Pot/ Pressure Cooking , Main Dish , Recipes
Learning how to cook a whole chicken in the Instant Pot (aka pressure cooker whole chicken) is life changing. For reals, if you’ve not joined the Instant Pot craze, aka electric pressure cooking, you my friend are about to. And apparently, aka is my favorite thing to say today, so let’s rock it. I must […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Main Dish , Recipes , Vintage
This fish chowder recipe comes from a 1931 cookbook that belonged to my husband’s Great-grandmother and was gifted to me this Christmas. Tucked inside the yellowed pages are handwritten recipes from both her and her mother, making some of them from Great-great-grandma’s kitchen. When I shared this on my Facebook page many of you asked […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Main Dish , Recipes , Sides
Learn how to make perogies (or pierogies) from Anna, with her traditional Ukrainian Perogi recipe. I can hardly remember a Christmas dinner without perogies. I want to say it happened once and so many family members complained that it never happened again. Because these potato-filled dumplings aren’t just a staple of holiday dinners in my […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Main Dish , Recipes
A Borscht recipe is something every home should have, regardless if you’re Ukrainian or not. Lucky for us, Anna is sharing her family’s Ukrainian Borscht recipe and tips with us today. I come from good Ukrainian stock. I know this because my mother never lets me forget it. I’m reminded at every family gathering, at […]
Read MoreBy Maria Alison | Main Dish , Recipes
Homemade chicken strips are one of my favorite things ever? And at less than $.65 a serving, my budget is happy too. Who doesn’t like from scratch goodness, combined with buttermilk, in a golden-crispy-finger-licking-good chicken strip? You must say yes or we can’t be friends. Kidding, kind of. But seriously, when you look at the […]
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I’ve never met a meatball I didn’t like. It’s like baby meatloaf bathed in finger-licking-good sauce. And when you add in sweet and sour, I get a little giddy. Are you ready to learn how to make sweet and sour meatballs? This sweet and sour meatball recipe from Maria is fun because it’s from scratch […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Breakfast , Frugal Living , Homestead Life , Main Dish , Podcast , Recipes , Vintage
The Depression Era defined a nation and we can take the tips from folks who went through hard times to stretch our own food budgets and live more frugally. These are recipes handed down from my family from generation to generation and now from me to you. I hope these tips are as helpful for […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Dessert , Main Dish , Recipes
25+ one dish cast iron skillet and Dutch oven recipes for easy indoor, outdoor and wood stove cooking. Cast iron is the number one cookware in my kitchen. Our grandmothers knew the wonder of cast iron and there are some old-fashioned things, okay a lot of old-fashioned things, we’d do best to go back to […]
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