I enjoy hearty old fashioned meals like this yummy meatballs & gravy. When I was a child, I often watched gramma cook meatballs or plain ground beef in her enamel frying pan, add flour and beef stock, dill and cook until thickened. Then it was served over mashed potatoes and vegetables from the garden like…
October’s No Grocery Shopping Challenge – Week Five
It’s Week Five of October’s No Grocery Shopping Challenge! This week has been a bit easier since we did a bit of grocery shopping. The pantry and freezer are looking less packed and the fridge is starting to look bare which is totally fine because that way we can eat up “old” stuff before buying…
Pumpkin Pancakes
These fluffy pumpkin pancakes are a delicious way to start the day! And it’s a great way to use up pumpkin puree! We like to top these delectable pancakes with Homemade Pumpkin Butter, Cream Cheese Syrup and pumpkin pie spiced whipped cream for breakfast that tastes like pumpkin pie! You could also sprinkle with chopped…
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…
