We love crepes!  Crepes make breakfast all the more wonderful!  We make crepes several times each month, sometimes once a week and I don’t think I’ve made them the same way twice. 
You can top crepes with most any type of fruit topping.  I usually use frozen fruit, like strawberries, add a little water and sweetener and let them boil into [...]

With summer time here, squash and zucchini are abundant.  We’ve been eating a lot of squash and zucchini lately!  In addition to canning and freezing squash, here are some ways I have been using it up:

Steamed:  Squash and zucchini are great vegetables to steam.  I add some crushed garlic and sliced onions and steam it [...]

Summer is here and that means grilling out!  I love to grill steaks, hamburgers and vegetables.  The other night I grilled some of our farm raised, grass-fed T-bone steaks and oh yummy, were they delicious.  I also grilled some corn on the cob and some skewers of sweet peppers and onions. 
We planted some zucchini and [...]

I’ve been posting a few recipes on making your own homemade sauces and homemade seasonings.  You do not need Taco Bell Taco seasoning to make good taco seasoning for your taco meat and you can make delicious healthy salad dressings in a snap without relying on Hidden Valley!  Commercially made dressings and dips are filled with [...]

On Thursday’s each week, I’m posting about recipes, bulk cooking and freezer cooking.  This week, I’m posting a few things about the ultra healthy, really cheap amazing head of cabbage!   I’ve been using a lot of cabbage lately.  It’s so cheap!  I’ve paid .44 cents a lb and under for it lately.  I have some baby cabbage [...]

If all the food recalls lately haven’t scared you away from buying processed foods……
Many people are ready to get back to a more simple approach to food.  In the wake of the Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein recall and the large pepper recall, we’ve learned that even organic foods aren’t immune from food safety issues.  Why?  Because [...]

Here is a basic tortilla recipe that we use all the time!  These tortillas are super easy to make too!  It is so easy to mix up that your children should be able to mix this up with a little coaching.  This tortilla recipe contains a few key ingredients that every pantry should have on hand [...]

It’s very difficult for me to do any kind of bulk freezer cooking these days!  Many times I have to quadruple recipes just to feed us for one meal.  When I had 3 small children, I loved cooking freezer supper meals for a month using the book Once a Month Cooking by Mimi Wilson and [...]

We love meatloaf around here.  I made a very modified version of Martha Stewart’s Meatloaf Recipe. Our large size meatloaf turned out wonderful and was the main feature of our tasty supper for our family of 10 at $1.20 per person!
Meatloaf is one of those meals that you can put together relatively inexpensively but has [...]

We love salad!  Even better, we love homemade salad dressing.  Making my own homemade salad dressing was so intimidating to me…so I never tried it.  Little did I know how easy and CHEAP it is to make your own homemade salad dressing.  Now I wonder how the salad dressing market stays afloat.  It must be because [...]

One of the biggest problems with industrialism is that our food system has been largely transformed into a system of engineered, mass marketed, devitalized food. Real foods are scarce and fake foods are overabundant and common.  However, real foods can be a great way to save money and add extra healthy nutrients to your [...]