By Anastasia Sakawsky | Dessert , Recipes
Mini cherry pies in a muffin tin, because nothing says summer like cherry pie. Something about it reminds me of fireworks and the 4th of July (or Canada Day for my fellow Canucks;) Cherry pie was the first pie I ever made from scratch. I made it with store-bought sweet cherries and a basic pie […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Main Dish , Recipes
Mafe- a Peanut Sauce & Rice Recipe and how I came to have it. Before I was a homesteader, I was a traveller. In fact – ironically enough – travelling is one of the things that inspired me to start homesteading in the first place. Experiencing how different cultures lived around the world, enjoying all […]
Read MoreBy 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 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 […]
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