We love cornbread! It’s a great accompaniment to spicy chili and a variety of other meals. It’s simple to prepare and great, especially if you’re low on flour. Settlers learned different ways to use maize (ground corn) in recipes from various Indigenous tribes. They experimented with ground corn and created cornbread which is bread-like and…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen
Raspberry-Blueberry White Chocolate Scones
These delicious scones are soft and flaky and filled with raspberries, blueberries and white chocolate. They make a great breakfast, snack or dessert or an accompaniment to a tea party, and go great with a cup of tea or coffee. It is thought that scones (derived from Scottish “bannock”), originated in Scotland in the early…
Sourdough Cheese Biscuits
Our sourdough starter is doing exceptionally well! This morning when I took the cloth off, the starter grew wonderfully! It was half way up the bowl, fluffy looking and oh so bubbly. I gave it a stir and you could just watch all the bubbles rising to the surface, popping, which makes this a very…
Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough English Muffins
I have a lot of sourdough starter, and we love homemade english muffins, so what better way to use up the excess starter (or discard), than to make delicious cinnamon raisin sourdough english muffins!! These cinnamon raisin sourdough english muffins have a light cinnamon flavor, crisp outside and fluffy middle, and are dotted with raisins…
Quick & Easy BBQ Chicken
Anytime we are craving fajitas, I make this quick and easy bbq chicken! No having to stand at the barbecue — especially when it’s cold out — toss everything into a roasting pan and bake. Let’s get started! In my roasting pan or casserole dish, I tossed in a sliced onion, shredded or julienned carrots…
Simple Homemade Sausage
This simple homemade sausage is similar to the old fashioned sausage patties we make. This simple sausage is not like a typical sausage recipe because there’s no cure, it’s not smoked, and it’s not pressed into a casing. Instead we form the sausages by hand and it is just cooked in the oven. Let’s get…
Unleavened Bread
Unleavened Bread is simple to make and takes a handful of ingredients. There is no leavening agent — no baking soda, baking powder or yeast — in this bread, which makes it chewy and slightly tougher than a traditional flatbread. It is a great bread to make when you run out of leavening agents and…