vanilla
Best Baking Apples For Pie, Kuchen, and Dumplings
Add to Favorites When my kids were little, I wore out the phrase “A is for apples.” It started when we planted an orchard of apple trees across from our …
Read More
How to Make Rice Pudding for Family and Friends
Add to Favorites Rice pudding. Those two words have a way of evoking pleasant memories of days gone by. I took a bowl of sweet rice pudding to my elderly …
Read More
How to Make Bread Pudding
Add to Favorites When I was a child, mom took leftover bread, milk, sugar, eggs, and flavoring and morphed those ingredients into a simple, comforting bread pudding. The pudding varied …
Read More
An Easy Carrot Cake Recipe Evokes Sweet Memories
This easy carrot cake recipe came down to me from my mother, who passed away just over two years ago. She didn’t teach me any easy pie recipes or even how to make homemade biscuits, but man did she make a good carrot cake.
Read More
A Caramel Pear Crumble Recipe
Add to Favorites This pear crumble recipe was inspired by the big old pear tree in our front yard. Our neighbors planted it when they built our house more than …
Read More
5 Easy Snacks to Make at Home: No Refrigeration Needed
Add to Favorites As the school year begins, it’s always fun to have some new recipes for easy snacks to make at home. I wanted to share some of the …
Read More
How to Make Homemade Granola
Add to Favorites Running out of homemade granola during blueberry season is a capital offense at our house. One of the reasons we tend to run out is that homemade …
Read More
Kitchen Gift Guide: Homemade Bread Recipes, Mason Jar Cookie Mixes and More
Add to Favorites As we prepare for the holidays, I always take a day to make gifts from the kitchen to share with friends, teachers and co-workers. One of my …
Read More
How to Make Vanilla Extract
Add to Favorites Learning how to make vanilla extract is easy. And if you start by late summer, you can make a superior homemade vanilla extract gift, perfect for anyone …
Read More
What’s for Dessert?
Add to Favorites By Wanda Pentyon Egg Custard Pie 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup flour 2 tablespoons butter, melted 2 cups milk 3 eggs 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 unbaked pie …
Read More
Hearty Minnesota Fare
Add to Favorites By Clara Groenhoff, Minnesota My Norwegian great-grandparents homesteaded the farm where I grew up. I’ve also always been a homesteader at heart. I’ve raised 11 children on …
Read More
Experimenting With Maple Syrup
Add to Favorites By Habeeb Salloum The first stop of our group on the Tap into Maple Route located in Ontario’s Lake Country and Springwater, an area within the larger region …
Read More
There’s No End to Zucchini Recipes!
Add to Favorites By Laura Shirk, Missouri Zucchini Pineapple • 4 quarts zucchini, grated or diced, seeds removed • 1 1/2 cups lemon juice, bottled • 1 – 46 oz. …
Read More
Maple-Vanilla And Peach-Oh-My!
Add to Favorites When I invited seven friends over for a girls’ jamming and canning night, none of us had made jam with pectin before, and we had never attempted to make anything shelf stable. We knew …
Read More
How to Make White Wine Vinegar Flavored With Herbs
Add to Favorites Recently, I was walking through my herb garden with my neighbor and local herb expert, Rita Heikenfeld, when she spied my patch of scallions all a-bloom. She …
Read More