With summer comes an abundance of zucchini in my garden. While the harvest is amazing, I needed to come up with different ideas on how to use it so I decided to make a Zucchini Chili. I must say, it was a HUGE success. My […]
Today I wanted to share my recipe for Ham Bean Vegetable Soup. I like making my soups from scratch. I feel like they are healthier and so much heartier! It’s also a good way to use garden vegetables as well as food storage dry beans. […]
We LOVE chili and corn bread and tried making some Oven Baked Chili in a cast iron skillet for dinner. I made this chili from scratch (using tomatoes from my garden, cilantro, and dry beans from my food storage). I placed a layer of corn […]
Honey Walnut Granola is a delightful blend of honey, oats, walnuts, almonds, pecans, cinnamon, vanilla, coconut and olive oil. I was really craving homemade granola but wanted to make a recipe using honey instead of sugar and so I adapted this recipe from one my […]
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies are some of my FAVORITE cookies to make! Even though they are a planned indulgence, I somehow feel that by adding the oatmeal they at least have a semblance of healthiness to them! With it being snowed in back East, I […]
Homemade pizza from scratch. Honestly, once you’ve had it, nothing else really compares. Tonight’s dinner was surrounded by the sounds of “Mmm” and “Oh” and “This is so good!” and “That sauce is amazing!” It was so prevalent that I almost started laughing at the […]
Our family LOVES taco salad!!! We make many different variations which I’ll touch on briefly in this post. This is our “go to” dinner several weeks of the month. It is healthy, filling, fast, and we can adapt it depending upon what ingredients we have […]
Peach Crisp brings back visions of camping, dutch oven cooking, and treasured memories. We have a large garden and every spring we get buckets of fresh, organic boysenberries. We also have a peach tree which produces an abundance of fruit. The peaches are sweet to […]
Ahh, Oven Roasted Turkey! There is nothing that speaks Thanksgiving, holidays, and time with family more. I love walking into the home smelling the strong aroma filling the air. Roasting a turkey doesn’t have to happen just at Thanksgiving, Easter, or Christmas. I like doing […]
I got a HUGE head of napa cabbage from the organic farm here in California. A wonderful cool weather crop with lots of crunch and flavor. As I have to feed eight people right now, I needed to make a complete meal for the family. […]
First of all, I have to say that I LOVE cheesy funeral potatoes and have since I was a small child. They are called “funeral” potatoes because they are a traditional side dish with ham and green beans at many of the funerals I have […]