Nothing beats homemade hot cocoa in the winter to warm the soul! It is nice to enjoy a mug of yummy hot chocolate after being outside in the snow and cold, crisp winds, especially after shoveling! And making homemade hot cocoa is quite simple, and only takes 4 ingredients! Drinking hot chocolate dates back a…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen
Making Kapusta – Old Fashioned Sauerkraut
I have always wanted to learn how to make homemade sauerkraut. Learning about ways the settlers preserved vegetables has always been of interest to me. I find it fascinating, especially in our modern times how pioneers cooked and preserved food. I thought it important for my family to learn these old fashioned ways of preserving,…
Old Fashioned Candy Apples
Every Halloween, we make something delectable with apples, often caramel apples, and it has become a yearly tradition. But this year, we thought we would switch it up! We made the most delicious, good old fashioned candy apples, that have a nice, crunchy candy coating, but not overly sticky, so no breaking or ripping out…
Homemade Crab Apple Juice
It is super simple to make homemade crab apple juice without a juice press. I received this recipe 20 years ago, and it has been a juice that we make every year when the crab apples are ready to pick. It’s quick and easy, with just a few steps, to create a yummy homemade juice!…
Nutty Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
These nutty double chocolate chip cookies is a delicious spin on chocolate chip cookies. These cookies are soft and tender thanks to the nut/seed butter! You can easily make these with peanut butter or nut free using a seed butter of choice. Because my girls have various nut allergies, I use Wow Butter which is…
5-Minute Fudge Boil Cookies
These 5 minute no-bake fudge cookies are also known as haystacks, fudgies, poor man cookies, chocolate fiddle diddles, chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies, preacher cookies, boil cookies or oatmeal boil cookies. These no-bake cookies were made popular in the 1930’s and there’s an array of names for these yummy morsels! I have been making these candy-like…
Slow Cooker Roast Beef with Veggies
The crockpot or slow cooker is an awesome way to have a delicious, hearty meal without having to cook all day! You can come home from your busy day and enjoy a yummy meal. And if you toss the veggies in along with the meat, then you have a full meal ready to eat, just…
