For a delicious burst of flavor to your favorite dish, adding pickled white onions can make all the difference. Pickled onions can be thrown together in just a couple of minutes with only 4 ingredients and can elevate your cooking to the next level! This past year, we had our first successful large onion harvest!…
Spring is here and rhubarb is exploding from garden beds. We’ve put together a list of 25 rhubarb recipes so that there is no shortage of ways to put all of that rhubarb to use. While rhubarb is typically combined with sugar and used in sweet desserts, there are a number of savory ways to…
Ditch the ultra-sugary bottles of barbecue sauce. This no ketchup BBQ sauce recipe is the perfect combination of sweet and savory and can easily be made in 15 minutes with basic kitchen staples. Barbeque sauce is one of those condiments that has a reputation of being bought from a bottle. But, like salad dressing, enchilada…
This simple peach sauce is the easiest and tastiest way to preserve a LOT of peaches at one time. With no peeling required and very little hands-on time, this is our favorite method to preserve peaches when our peach trees are loaded up with fruit. Similar to our recipes for roasted tomato sauce, applesauce, and…
The easiest and most delicious way to use up extra plums. When our fruit trees are producing, this easy plum sauce is my go-to way to prepare and preserve plums to enjoy them all year long! It’s no secret that growing, harvesting, and preserving food is a lot of work. So, I’m always looking for…
Making your own mayo is absolutely IN reach. It only takes a few minutes and 5 ingredients to make this completely homemade mayo with avocado oil, sans any of the junky oils or ingredients in most store-bought mayonnaise. Along with homemade yogurt, sour cream, pesto, and alfredo sauce, homemade mayo is another thing that I…
Take a simple salad to the next level with this delicious dressing! Of all of the salad dressing recipes I’ve tried so far, this creamy honey mustard dressing is my favorite. Skip the bottled stuff and give this easy homemade dressing a try. Plus, it can be whipped up in less than 5 minutes with…
Need a basic marinade for all of your meat and grilling purposes? This is it! A simple, five ingredient all purpose marinade has you covered regardless of whether you are cooking up chicken breasts, pork chops, or a juicy steak. Grilling season is here—or in the case of life on the homestead, planting, weeding, and…
Chicken or white fish served with rice and vegetables makes a fine dinner, but add this homemade cream sauce and it becomes a highly requested favorite! This delicious cream sauce recipe is quick and easy to whip up and takes any meal to the next level! Magical White Cream Sauce I still remember my first…
Late August through September is officially dubbed tomato season on the homestead. When ripe tomatoes are coming out of our ears, this no peel, sugar free tomato sauce recipe is our solution to tomato overwhelm. It’s an easy and delicious way to put those tomatoes to use and enjoy them all year round! Our Tomato…