This garden chili uses fresh garden tomatoes, peppers, and onions for a super simple crockpot supper that is homegrown and homemade. Toss in a jalapeno or other hot pepper for some added heat, or keep it mild – it tastes great either way! I love eating fresh food from the garden.…
This concrete cinder block pantry shelf comes together quickly, stands alone, and offers all the sturdiness you could need to shelve those home canned mason jars, store bought tin cans, pancake batter mixes, and any other pantry food extras you have in your home. And all for the price of…
Buying bread from the store can get expensive. Whether you are supplementing your homemade bread supply or you solely buy your bread from a store – with bread costing between $3-6 dollars per loaf, it can get expensive real fast. Ours is a home of bread lovers, so buying bread…
Whether you are planning a delicious creamy soup for dinner or are in the middle of prepping a favorite casserole and discover you’re out of canned cream of chicken soup (or mushroom soup, we aren’t prejudiced!) – these simple from scratch cream of soup recipes are a good thing to…
Whether you have gravy, casserole, soup, or some other delicious meal planned for your and your family’s dinner tonight, it’s probable that you will find yourself reaching for a can of cream of chicken, cream of mushroom, or cream of celery soup to make the dish pop with flavor and…
Here we are at the start of the calendar summer, and we are waist deep in peas at my place (literally, waist deep). My little helpers and I were out in the garden yesterday and picked this lovely large bowl full of sugar snap peas. We are a few…
I love bananas. In fact, I think most people, save for sister and my husband, love eating bananas. (Okay…maybe there are more anti-banana eaters out there than I care to admit…) When I was walking through the grocery store this morning and saw a cart full of these red-taped bananas,…
Prior to getting married, I received advice from close friends, family members, neighbors, acquaintances, and even some strangers on how to be successful in that major adventure of sharing my life with someone else. One token of advice was to “Always say ‘yes’ to someone else cooking.” Though this advice…
My household has always operated under a budget. A very tight budget. Like many, my husband and I started our life together in undergrad, which put us under a lot of pressure to live … “lightly”. Our adventures following undergrad also demanded light living as we started out working modest…
