Welcome to Our City Homestead where we share our love of good old fashioned cooking, meals made from scratch, gardening and crafting fun!
Slow Cooker Cream of Potato Soup
This slow cooker soup is easy to prepare and a great way to have a meal on the table when you don’t feel like cooking or are busy and need a hearty meal with minimal kitchen time. It’s rich and creamy and full of flavor. This soup is a crockpot favorite!! Let’s get started! Add…
Cherry Bars with Vanilla Glaze
These Cherry Bars are absolutely delicious! It’s a delicious cake base that tastes a little like a sugar cookie with cherries that reminds me of a breakfast danish! It’s so hard to describe, but it’s so good! It has those familiar flavors that makes you think you’ve had this dessert before! It is not overly…
Cayenne Pepper Sauce
This summer, my daughter grew an assortment of peppers, including cayenne peppers. This is the first time we have grown cayenne peppers, so we did not know what to expect. Turns out, the cayenne grew a lot of peppers and we picked quite a few in the latter part of the summer!! We harvested the…
Pear Jelly
I made pear fruit, just like gramma used to do, so we can enjoy pears while it’s cold and the snow is blowing outside! With the pear scraps, I tossed them into a pot, topped it up with water and cooked it for a few hours. I left it sit overnight and then I strained…
Zucchini Corn Chowder
We have lots of corn from our garden this year and my mom gave us a bunch of zucchini, so I froze some, and then made this delicious Zucchini Corn Chowder. Chowder is a thick, hearty soup that has a cream or milk base and loaded with vegetables or seafood. In today’s vegetable chowder, we…
Canning Homemade Pasta Sauce
We were gifted some cherry tomatoes so we decided to use these tomatoes along with some tomatoes we had purchased from the farmers market and make pasta sauce to can and enjoy it during the winter months. It’s such a great way to preserve those tomatoes! We are using Parsley and Greek Basil from our…
Homemade Salsa to Can
It’s the season of canning and preserving! We bought some “salsa” tomatoes this past Tuesday from a local farm, and now that they’re ripe, we decided to make a batch of salsa that we can enjoy this winter. This is the first time I’ve ever made salsa to can. It tastes great already! We used…
Candied Peppers – Garden Candy
Today I’m making Candied Peppers. These candied peppers are commonly referred to as “Cowboy Candy” but because we are using a variety of peppers in ours, rather than just jalapeños, I’m just calling it Candied Peppers…or Garden Candy!
