Here's the recipe for our homemade udder balm! We're whipping up shea butter and coconut oil along with essent

I don't know if it's southern, for I've never had a sweet potato pie down south, but I'm showing you how I mak

It is so easy to make a healthy sweetened condensed milk substitute using less than a handful of real food i

I have a conundrum. You see, I'm just about out of chicken stock. Really, I  need to roast this chicken for d

Are you looking for a new, scratch, pumpkin cookie recipe to bake this fall? How about one that's on the heal

Sweet Lemon Honey & Thyme Cough Syrup is a wonderful, homemade cough syrup recipe that will help you or yo

The thought that anyone wouldn’t be a “cake person” never crossed my mind until I met Bill. Who doesn’

Growing up, Spanish Rice was a dish I've best described as Unstuffed Peppers. Since I could never stuff pepper

Honestly, I don't even know what to call this tomato sauce. There are so many wonderful things about it, I can

I'm breaking up with jelly & jam. There's a new love in my life that doesn't require all that sugary bagga

Don't judge me. I burnt my buns. That makes for three times running that I went to make French Dip Sammies to

Butter used to be a project that took our foremothers all day. How wonderful it is that we can now whip up a b

This is what it’s all about folks! It's all for the love of bacon! All those months of feeding hogs, saving

Diversity has been one of my main challenges in preparing roasted chicken. Flavoring with lemon, garlic, shall

I don't know what the weather is in your neck of the woods, but is is still freezing cold here. Literally! I w

Since we began butchering our own pork, we've had to experiment with recipes, trying different things for meat

Scotch Shortbread. With no eggs in the ingredients list, this a great cookie this time of year when some of us

It's been a while since I've been at a steakhouse that serves those adorable little dark brown dinner roll loa

Oh boy, aren't you going to be glad you came to visit me today??  Because today is Double Fudge Brownie Day!

Chicken and Dumplings. The quintessential winter comfort food. And formerly one of our favorite meals to dine

One Year Ago: ~Your Questions: Pigs in the Pasture~     I have spent years searching high and low fo

One Year Ago: ~Week 45~   This fall, my poor, poor family has had to suffer most pitiably through my expe

While I'm not much of a coffee drinker (like as in I can't remember the last time I have had one but if I had

I don't know if it's the simplicity of preparing this meal, Or if it is the scent of the peppers and onions wh

This potato salad doesn't have a story. Except that it is adapted from Cook's County's All-American Potato Sal

A couple weeks ago we culled a few hens from the laying flock and I jumped at the opportunity to try a recipe

Here is the recipe for our family's favorite, primarily homegrown ( So I haven't figured out how to grow the c

I have been searching off and on for the past two years, as our cow provides, for a high-yielding ricotta chee

I suppose I can't be surprised that, after my rave review of the new homemade mayonnaise we've been enjoying,

Our family gathered round the table over a late summer treat of fresh peach pie recently and debated the virtu

We have been up to our eyeballs in cucumbers this year. It amazes me that I struggled so with them last year e

It's not that I have anything against pectin.   It's just that I'm always intrigued with recipes that wou

When I came across this recipe for Peapod Soup in The Forgotten Skills of Cooking, I knew that I simply must

Don't you just love quick bread? I know I do. Puts a smile on my face to wake up in the morning knowing breakf

Monday was a busy day.   It was also smoking hot.   Normally, our temperatures during the last week

I first had Quiche Lorraine in French class in high school and I absolutely loved it. I suppose that's only na