Made From Scratch
Come to into our kitchen and hang out a while while we explore recipes like grandma used to make
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The Best Pie Crust Recipe (Step by Step Guide)
This step by step guide will teach you everything you need to know to make the perfect pie crust every time. In this guide we will talk about what makes the best pie crust recipe and break the recipe down into a step by step process that will up your pie crust making game in time for the holidays. Your family will be asking how you do it! Pie crusts are the underrated heroes of holiday desserts. Without a great crust, you can never have a great pie! Pie is so much more than the filling, it is a textural combination of a delicious filling and flaky buttery crust. No…
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Easy and Hearty Indian Stew (with Ninja Foodi Adaptation)
Cool weather is an invitation for hearty meals at the dinner table. One of our favorite hearty stews for cold weather is an Indian Stew that is chock full of potatoes and carrots and served over a bed of rice. You heard that right! Rice and potatoes makes this easy and hearty Indian Stew a stick to your ribs kind of meal. Indian Stew is a favorite of the family, but my daughter really loves it. It is always one of her top responses to the question, “what do you want for dinner?”. I always know that when I make it, there will be no issues getting the kids to…
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The Best Apple Streusel Bread Recipe
This is the best apple streusel bread recipe you will come across! It is a delicious and relatively healthy dessert that taste like fall. Large chunks of apples stud this lovely quick bread. The cinnamon, oat, and brown sugar streusel topping provides the perfect amount of sweetness and texture to make this apple streusel bread a delightful mouthful. Apples are the quintessential fall fruit. The crisp red skin breaking way to a sweet interior brings about thoughts of bonfires and falling leaves. Every fall we find ourselves in apples somehow. While we usually end up making applesauce with majority of the apple, we always have one or two apple…
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Easy Zuppa Toscana at Home
It’s Fall Y’all! That means it’s soup season, which is my favorite food season of all. Soup is one of those warm you from the inside out kinds of foods, and this easy Zuppa Toscana will have your family full and happy in under thirty minutes! Soup is my go to dinner when I am not sure what to make or I’m pressed for time. It is so easy to just chop up some veggies and throw them into a pot with some liquid and maybe a meat and Voila! Soup!! Okay well maybe it is a little more than that, but it’s pretty dang close. Check out our…
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Easy SPAM Breakfast Skillet Recipe
If you are looking for a hearty breakfast that doesn’t break the bank or have you spending hours in the kitchen, look no further than our SPAM Breakfast Skillet. This one skillet dish is filled with hearty simple ingredients that will keep your family full long past lunchtime. Weekends are for big breakfasts here at the farm. We usually have a laundry list of things to do around the farmhouse between cleanup, construction, animals, and garden; so we know that a hearty breakfast will keep us going! During the week, the kids usually grab a bowl of cereal before school and I head off to work with my coffee in…
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Pawpaw Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies
Pawpaw Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies are so delicious you will be dreaming of pawpaw season every year. Pawpaw lends its uniquely citrusy banana notes to a classic oatmeal chocolate chip cookie that is to die for. Pawpaw Season I look forward to pawpaw season every year. I carefully monitor the four small wild groves that we have found on the farm for spring blooms and the tell tell signs of fruit formation. As summer starts to wind down, I visit the groves weekly to check on their progress and start planning how to use these delicious treats. This year my goal was to preserve the pawpaws that I found so…
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Knock Your Socks Off Jalapeño Poppers
Jalapeño Poppers are a go to appetizer recipes. The combination of salty crispy bacon, creamy cream cheese, and spicy jalapeño makes the perfect bite. We have perfected that bite even more with these Knock Your Socks Off Jalapeño Poppers. Date Night Occasionally my husband and I will get a much needed date night. Mawmaw and Poppie come grab up the kids and then my husband and I try to figure out how to function without kids for a while. The first inevitable question that is asked is always, what are we going to make for dinner. While our kids are great eaters overall and will eat nearly everything, they do…
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The Tastiest Zucchini in the Ninja Foodie
Is your garden bursting at the seams with zucchini? Or maybe you just love it like I do! Either way this is a simple and easy recipe that you will not want to miss. Prepare yourself to be amazed at the tastiest zucchini in the Ninja Foodie! Kids and Zucchini Getting my kids to eat zucchini is like pulling teeth. They hate everything about the vegetable (to be honest, I think they just see that it was green and decide “Nope”). I on the other hand love zucchini, so occasionally I will make them eat it even though I know dinner time is going to be a fight. Given this…
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How to Make Cowboy Caviar
This recipe for Cowboy Caviar is a bight and flavorful twist on a Taco Tuesday side dish that your family will love. With just a few simple ingredients you will be on your way to a delicious and simple meal. Potlucks always bring a bit of stress for me. What in the world do you bring?! What if no one likes what you bring, or worse they love it, but you didn’t make enough! Then you have to decide do you make a desert, a main dish, a side. The possibilities are endless and quite frankly it is overwhelming to me. So to get over my potluck anxiety I have…
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How to Use an Abundance of Eggs!
One of the great things about owning chickens is the supply of farm fresh egg. Farm fresh eggs have a richer deeper yolk than store bought which lends to a better tasting egg! And even better, chickens are fairly low maintenance animals, so you get a high yield for very little work. They are also so relaxing to watch as they scratch around. Chicken watching is one of my favorite pastimes on the homestead. To me that is a win win! But even with just five chickens, my family of five was having a hard time keeping up with the ladies production. As we speak I have five eighteen counts…
