Recipes

Homemade almond extract is simple and easy to do. It only requires 2 ingredients and a few weeks “brew time” to be ready for all your almond flavor recipes!  After learning how to make mint and vanilla extract, I figured, why not learn how to make my own almond extract? I mean, how hard could

Liquid warm baked potatoes. Can you think of anything yummier? Loaded with cheese and bacon, redolent with onion and garlic this loaded baked potato soup is easy to make, and you can easily double or triple the batches so that you can have lots of leftovers. It works well on the stove top, or even

Arguably one of the best things to come from the South is good old, traditional cornbread. This classic Southern Cornbread recipe has been a favorite export for locals, tourists, and travelers for years. Once you’ve tasted some authentic Southern cornbread, you will never look back. My hubby was born and raised in the South, and

I love sourdough. Pure and simple. It helps break down the gluten in grain to make it easier to digest, and it has a wonderful flavor that can’t be beat. Did you think that sourdough was only for English muffins or bread? Well, we love to make it into sourdough pizza crust and it’s super-duper

Ketchup is almost a food group in our home. My kids and husband could practically drink it and they put it on everything. There are weeks when we can go through 2-3 pints of homemade ketchup. Seriously. We can’t stop drinking it. Why lacto fermented ketchup? The benefits of fermented foods are amazing. They include:

I love eating salads. I could eat taco salad for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The problem a lot of people have with salads is that we toss some limp greens on a plate, smother it with a creamy, tasteless dressing and call it “salad”. We need to add variety to that! This taco salad is

With Thanksgiving coming up, we all know that sugar is everywhere. Pumpkin pies, jellies, sauces, etc. I want to cut some of the sugar this year, so I decided to do a Zevia swap out. I think that homemade jelly is just this side of perfection, but the sugar in there is to much! So,

I love ranch dressing…as a kid, I practically drank the stuff.  It’s perfect on salads, over veggies, on chicken, in hamburgers, as a dip, with chips or crackers, on mashed or baked potatoes…there’s not much that it’s NOT good on. Commercial ingredients in ranch dressing are not good for you. The *nameless company* mix is