Quick easy recipes for busy moms: easy dinner ideas, mixes from scratch, cookies, desserts, easy canning recipes, and more.
Easy recipe for jalapeno cornbread.
Corn bread is a quick easy side dish to go with fall and winter soups and stews. If your family likes things a bit spicy, then they might enjoy this jalapeno corn bread. You can use fresh jalapenos or this is a great way to use some of the pickled jalapenos you canned this summer.…
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Easy canning recipe for apple butter made in your crock pot. Can it or freeze it for later.
Canning apple butter is something I look forward to every year. I love apple butter! I have seen lots of recipes for making it in the crock pot so I thought I would give that a try this year. In this recipe you make the apple butter in the crock pot! Crock pot apple butter…
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Easy recipe for blackberry muffins. Make homemade muffins from fresh or frozen blackberries.
It’s blackberry season! I love going to pick wild blackberries every August. There are lots of places to go pick blackberries around where we live. If you are lucky enough to get your hands on some fresh blackberries, you will definitely want to give these blackberry muffins a try. They are really good! Moist and…
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Canning pickled brussel sprouts. Everything you need to know to get started, including step by step canning instructions for beginning canners.
Our family has been growing a garden for the past couple of years, and one of the vegetables we have enjoyed growing is brussel sprouts. All of my kids actually like brussel sprouts! Hard to believe, I know. I also enjoy making pickles every summer, and I recently saw a recipe for canning pickled brussel…
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Easy recipe for canning pickled red onions to enjoy in salads an on sandwiches all year round.
If you’ve never tried canning pickled red onions before, then you really have to give this recipe a try. It is SO easy. Some canning recipes take hours to prepare and are still worth all the effort taken to prepare them, but this recipe literally takes minutes to make. This is the first year I’ve…
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Recipe for peach crumb bars. Easy recipe for enjoying summer peaches.
It’s peach season again! A couple of years ago we planted a peach tree in our backyard, and we have been really enjoying having fresh peaches from our tree every summer. I’ve been trying out different dessert recipes using peaches. These peach crumb bars are delicious and easy to make. Ingredients: 1/2 cup (1 stick)…
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Easy recipe for lavender tea bread, a delicious quick bread to make for summer tea parties.
I have been having a lot of fun experimenting with lavender recipes. Last month I visited a lavender farm for the first time and I have been looking for new lavender recipes to try ever since. My most popular recipe so far has been my lavender blueberry jam recipe (you definitely want to give that…
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Recipe for making and canning pickled cherry tomatoes. Add pickled tomatoes to pasta salads or eat right out of the jar! Easy recipe for beginning canners.
I love cherry tomatoes. I look forward to growing them in my garden every year. They taste so much better than store bought tomatoes.The only problem is that they don’t last very long, and if you don’t have a way to preserve them you can’t enjoy them all winter. These pickled cherry tomatoes are really…
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Recipe for homemade rhubarb simple syrup to freeze or can. Use this simple syrup to flavor cocktails, lemonade, iced tea, or enjoy on your favorite ice cream or yogurt. Easy recipe for beginning canners.
Simple syrups are so easy and fun to make. They make great flavorings for iced tea, cocktails, flavored sodas, and home brewed kombucha. There are many types of homemade simple syrups you can make. So far I have made ginger, lilac, and strawberry simple syrups. This recipe is for rhubarb simple syrup. I think you…
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This lavender iced tea is a refreshing summer iced tea made from dried lavender.
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit a local lavender farm. It was a really fun experience, and with the lavender I brought home I have already made lavender lemonade and lavender blueberry jam. While looking for more lavender recipes, I found a recipe for lavender iced tea and had to…
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