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Chocolate No-Nut Butter Cups
It’s Halloween, so why not make some tasty nut-free treats!?! My daughter is allergic to a variety of nuts, so we have been using Wow Butter (a nut free butter) since she was a toddler. I like Wow Butter the best because it’s versatile, you can bake with it and we found it tastes the…
Homemade Caramel Apples
Every Fall and Halloween we make Candy Apples or these tasty Caramel Apples. The history of caramel apples is not exact. It’s believed to been created in the 1950’s when a Kraft worker, Dan Walker, experimented with excess caramels from Halloween. He melted them down, dipped apples in and caramel apples were created! The apples…
Homemade Pumpkin Butter
We cooked a pumpkin the other day, roasted the seeds, kept some seeds to plant next year and then pureed the pumpkin in which we got 11 cups of pumpkin puree!! So what better than to enjoy some pumpkin hot chocolate (such a different color with homemade puree than store bought!) while making pumpkin butter!…
Roasting Pumpkin Seeds
Today we are roasting some pumpkin seeds. I am cooking up a pumpkin to puree so we can make an assortment of pumpkin goodies this week and I thought we’d roast the seeds. Roasting pumpkin seeds produces a more flavorful and nutty taste. Cooking pumpkin seeds dates back as far as 7000BC and have been…
How to Clean a Dutch Oven
When I would look at my dutch oven before baking bread or stewing something, I thought it was simply hopeless how stained and dirty it was! I do not use parchment anymore when baking sourdough, and I lightly grease the dutch oven so it would get splashed up and look dirty. Then roasting or stewing…
Cranberry Orange Loaf
Since it’s the last week of October, we are having fall time fun!! So what better than to bake with two of my favorite fall time fruits — cranberries and oranges! This quick bread is dense with fruit and is more cake-like than loaf-like. It’s not overly sweet so the glaze adds a nice sweetness…
October’s No Grocery Shopping Challenge – Week Four
It’s Week Four of October’s No Grocery Shopping Challenge! This week has been a challenge for sure as we have run out of more ingredients. I was confident that we had stocked up for the month, but we unfortunately did not get enough. This was a good way to show me what exactly I need…
