By 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 Melissa Norris | Breakfast , Dessert , Recipes
This easy blueberry cake recipe comes straight from Grandma’s kitchen. Michelle made a small adaptation from the original version, because this version only uses a natural sweetener, made straight from her homestead. From scratch cakes baked in cast iron, with a generations old recipe, and blueberries and maple syrup straight from the homestead makes this […]
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 Melissa Norris | Cultured Dairy , Recipes , Skills
An easy marinated cheese balls recipe you can make at home in less than 5 minutes, in a Mason jar, and costs me a fraction of the store bought version. You guys, I may no longer have to hide the marinated cheese in the back of the fridge under the Brussell sprouts so no one […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Dessert , Recipes , Vintage
This easy pumpkin roll recipe is straight from Grandma’s kitchen and is made with fresh pumpkin puree. This is an easy pumpkin roll recipe with cream cheese filling that brings you the marriage of a cheese cake with pumpkin spice… aka, the best thing you’ve ever had. No joke! My husband’s grandmother is known for […]
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 Melissa Norris | Bread , Breakfast , Healthy Snacks , Recipes
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 Melissa Norris | Bread , Recipes
Best ever flaky buttermilk biscuits are coming your way. No joke. If you’ve ever used those biscuits from a can because you thought you couldn’t get flaky biscuits at home or it took too much time, my friend, you shall never return to those again. Seriously, never again. I’ve got a few tips to share […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Dessert , Recipes , Vintage
How to make pudding from scratch is something almost every cook knew how to whip up before convenience processed food and those little boxes of powdered stuff became known as pudding. While many a cook today still knows, and does, make a cooked stove top pudding from scratch, not nearly as many people know how […]
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