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Dinner Hero: Roasted Veg
This is my favorite quick side dish to add to a meal, and it could not be easier. Pre-heat your oven to 425, toss your veggies in avocado or olive oil, salt and pepper. Roast for 20-25 minutes and serve. My favorite vegetable to cook this way is broccoli.
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Managing Bindweed: A Gardening Dilemma
Our new yard is full of bindweed, or morning glory, depending on who you ask. It creeps up from the swamp behind our house and under the yard, climbing and rolling over everything and causing my husband trouble. We try to be generally chemical-free outside, so these little vines of chaos often escape his wrath…
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What We Ate: Dinner #3
Night One: On this night I cooked a brisket in my instant pot, shredded it up, and served it over chips with a can of ranch pinto beans, a homemade white cheddar cheese sauce, tomatoes, end green onions. Everyone loved this and it was filling. Night Two: We had leftover chicken from another meal, so…
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Homemade Breakfast Sausage Recipe with Real Ingredients
Have you looked at the ingredients in breakfast sausage? I took a peek last year and I was shocked. The one we had been purchasing for years contained pork, corn syrup, salt, natural flavor, sugar, pork broth, and MSG. I was determined to make it myself, with actual real ingredients, and I think I’ve done…
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What We Ate: Dinner #2
Night One: This night I used the instant pot to make one of my favorites: porcupine meatballs! They’re not actually made from porcupine, of course, but the kids love to act shocked at the name every time we have them. I paired them with mashed potatoes and corn. This was a total comfort meal as…
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Basic Bread Pudding
I did not grow up having bread pudding, but after I’d been a homemaker for a few years and I was staring at my budget spreadsheet, it became a staple in our house. Anytime I have a bread end, an extra hamburger bun, a stale bagel…I cube it up and stick it in a big…
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Master the Spatchcock Method for Perfect Roast Chicken
Roasting a whole chicken is a great skill to learn and it’s not as hard as it might seem. I’m a huge fan of the “flattened” chicken method, or spatchcock method. The first thing I do when I’m going to roast a chicken is to mix up my seasoning. Equal parts garlic powder, salt, and…
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Preservation: Mustang Grape Jelly
Remember a few days ago, when I wrote about picking Mustang grapes? Well, we got 8 pounds. Within two days I had seven jars of grape jelly and 6 cups of grape juice for fresh drinking. Now a bit of transparency: grape jelly isn’t my favorite. I have always been fully in the strawberry jam…
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How To Fold a Burrito
The other day, I shared how to cook beans in the pressure cooker. I wanted to share our favorite way to enjoy beans: the humble but scrumptious bean burrito! The best and easiest way to make refried beans is to simply put the whole beans in a pot and mash them with a potato masher.…
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Instant Pot Beans
Beans are just about the most versatile of budget foods, and I’ve pretty much nailed down the easiest way to cook them. Pre-instant pot days, I would soak them for 48 hours, changing the water every 8-12 hours until the beans were nearly sprouted, then slowly cooked them for 12 plus hours. Now I can…
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