One-pot meals are one of my favourite meals to make and soups are definitely a one-pot meal! My family enjoys soups year round – on cooler, rainy summer days, crisp fall days or freezing cold winter days. It’s a great way to feed many hungry tummies and soups are always delicious the next day! This…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen

Gramma’s Beef Barley Soup
Looking for a hearty old fashioned soup just like gramma used to make, to feed your hungry family for only a few dollars? Try this delicious beef barley soup!

Sourdough Griddle Cakes and Pancakes
Pancakes. Flapjacks. Griddle cakes. No matter what you call them, they are delicious and were widely made during the Klondike Gold Rush using sourdough starter and cooked over hot coals on the trail. Prospectors ate sourdough everything, often three times a day. A hearty batch of pancakes was an inexpensive and easy way to fill…

Sourdough Cinnamon Bread
This Sourdough Cinnamon Bread fills the house with a warm inviting smell, like gramma’s house from years past, that will have everyone running to the kitchen. This cinnamon bread is scrumptious either cold or warm from the oven. It has the perfect amount of sweetness, and a yummy cinnamon taste without being overpowering. You can…

Sourdough Bread
I used to think sourdough was too complicated and much too hard to create wonderfully tasty goodies with, but that simply is not true. Sourdough starter is quite easy to use once you become familiar with it! The textures are a bit different from a regular wheat bread (and much different from gluten free) but…

Making Sourdough Starter
Making a sourdough starter is simple. It only takes a few ingredients that most of us have in our pantry and then it takes 5-days worth of patience! But why make sourdough? Sourdough is much gentler on the digestive tract because the microbes in sourdough have begun to digest the proteins and sugars in the…

Old Fashioned Gluten Free Pancakes
Pancakes have been found in writings dating back to 1430 but researchers have found remnants of pancakes from 5000 years ago! Pioneers cooked pancakes over the wood stove in a cast iron pan and ate dense foods to keep satiated until the next meal. Pancakes were a simple way to feed many hungry tummies and…

Hearty Chili
We enjoy chili – whether it is a veggie chili or one that contains meat, chili is a versatile meal that can be changed up numerous ways. In today’s chili, we added ground beef, beans and a few different veggies that helps to make it a hearty meal. We also sometimes eat pasta or rice…