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I have fun each holiday season making homemade gifts for friends, teachers, neighbors and anyone else I need to give a holiday gift to. This one is so easy to make, and I have fun finding creative bottles to use and best of all making creative tags to attach. Plan ahead if you plan to […]
Ketchup In emergency situations having food that tastes good is sometimes challenging. Long-term storage foods such as wheat, dried beans, and milk are great but having variety and comfort tastes are just as important. Everyone enjoys variety and different tastes in our diets. If your diet suddenly was based on just a few staples […]
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream This weekend my son begged and begged to please make homemade Ice cream, both my husband and I dreaded the thought of having to pull out the big Ice Cream maker, set everything up and listen to the motor roar for an hour or more as the Ice Cream was […]
Homemade French Upside Down Apple Tart 10 inch cast iron skillet or round pan 8-10 gala, pink lady or any high acid firm apple with a hint of sweetness, peeled, cored, and halved 1/2 cup salted butter 1/2 cup sugar 1 Tsp. vanilla or 1 vanilla bean, seeds extracted 1 recipe pie crust, rolled out […]
Powdered Milk In my continued efforts to save money, I’ve decided to give powdered milk a try. Now I would never consider telling my family that we were going to be using powdered milk, I would never hear the end of it. I had spent some time in the months before hand researching different brands […]
Tomatoes Availability When planted in late spring tomato blossoms will grow into green fruit and will ripen red by mid-summer through September or the first frost. Tomatoes are available year round but lack in taste during the off season. Practical ideas when buying tomatoes Bright red color, no bruises, or spots Buy when they […]
Yellow Cake from Scratch This is my Great Grandma Mae’s recipe for the easiest and yummiest yellow cake you will ever make and eat. I never met my Great Grandma, but this recipe has been past down each generation and that is what makes this cake so special to me, I enjoy cooking when […]
Do it Yourself Home Remedies When disasters occur the medical industry always has a hard time keeping up with the needs of the affected. If there was a national crisis, loss of job, or personal emergency, how would you relieve your pain if doctors or medicine were not available? Fortunately there are many items that […]
Homemade Dishwasher Soap After months of struggling with a white film over all mt dishes, buying jet dry and every other concoction on the market, I gave up and started hand washing all my dishes. With 5 kids running from game to game and trying to maintain my little family house and garden I started […]
Powdered Milk In my continued efforts to save money, I’ve decided to give powdered milk a try. Now I would never consider telling my family that we were going to be using powdered milk, I would never hear the end of it. I had spent some time in the months before hand researching different brands […]
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