Making homemade spice blends is super easy. I like making pumpkin pie spice because I often do not care for the store blends. When making homemade, you can easily adjust by adding more or less of a particular spice to achieve the flavor you enjoy. Let’s get started! This pumpkin pie spice uses 5 spices….
Fudgy Brownies
If you are a chocolate lover, you’ll love these yummy fudgy brownies! These delectable brownies are fudgy, filled with chocolate chips, moist, a bit gooey and chewy with crispy edges. They are so delicious!! Perhaps I would cook them 5 minutes less next time since the edges were a bit crispy, but they were still…
Roasted Zucchini & Hamburger
Growing up, every fall my brothers and I would always ask my mom to cook “that zucchini stuff” since we had an abundance of zucchini. It was so good and was often requested. It’s a family favorite and I’ve shared this recipe so many times over the years! It’s delicious and reminds me a bit…
Sweet Dill Relish
This is our favorite homemade sweet relish — it’s my family’s favorite! I added dill and garlic for a little extra flavor, but it is not enough to overpower the sweetness of the relish at all. It’s delicious on sandwiches, hot dogs or burgers, or serve as you would a pickle to any meal. I…
Mom’s Chunky Mustard Pickles
It’s canning season!! These past couple days we have been busy canning dill pickles and now I’m making one of my favorites — chunky mustard pickles. My mom has been making these for years. If you love mustard, you’ll love these delicious pickles! These pickles go great with burgers and barbecue but also goes with…
Homemade Caramel Coffee Creamer
I like cream in my coffee and I like flavoured creamers but the store bought versions are loaded with oils, thickening agents like carrageenan, gums for stabilizing and of course artificial flavors and preservatives. Not only that, but I do not find them flavorful at all. So instead, I decided to make my own and…
Saskatoon Pie
It’s berry season! Saskatoon Pie is a Canadian classic! The berry grows in the prairies both wild and cultivated. This is a cultivated saskatoon or a domesticated shrub. We’re fortunate that my folks have fruit trees and shrubs which is great, until ours begin to produce enough. Our First Nations dried and pounded the saskatoon…
