Enjoy summer all year long! This light strawberry salad with spinach will be perfect at summer BBQ’s, dinner parties, or just for a quick and easy lunch. Strawberries and spinach just seem to scream “Summer” to me. The sweet berries blend well with the savory, peppery, flavor of fresh spinach. Add the bite of red onions, topped with the crunch of walnuts and the creamy of the mozzarella cheese and… Continue Reading
Super Easy Guacamole
Fast, easy and super delicious! This super easy guacamole is perfect for spreading on tacos, quesadillas, and burritos and simple dipping! The simple and lovely avocado. Full of healthy fats, Vitamin K, and copper. It’s an amazing fruit that is also full of potassium and antioxidants. Green, lovely, creamy and a workhorse in the kitchen. Truly. Avocados can be served sliced, diced, or mashed. They go from savory to sweet without… Continue Reading
Salted Caramel Latte
This salted caramel latte is quick and easy to make. Sweet caramel with the salty crunch of sea salt blends perfectly with hot espresso for a coffee house drink right at home! Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved lattes. Gas station lattes. The kind that came out of the machines that sat next to the coffee pots. Full of sugar and chemicals, but so tasty. So… Continue Reading
Whipped Butter With Pumpkin
All the flavors of fall, in an easy to make whipped butter! Pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg combined with honey, take this pumpkin butter to a whole new level! Fall is here, and with it, all things pumpkin spice. Seriously, I have seen pumpkin spice coffee creamer, pumpkin spice coffee, pumpkin spice dishsoap and bleach. It’s like the entire world goes nutty with the pumpkin spice! However, you need to… Continue Reading
Whipped Maple Butter
All the goodness of pure maple syrup, whipped with real butter, combines for a delicious sweet spread that goes great on cornbread, homemade artisan bread, pancakes, and more! Who wants butter on all the things? This girl! I love spreading butter on bread, cornbread, and more. This deliciously sweet maple butter is perfect for that and more. One of my favorite things about this maple butter is that it’s so… Continue Reading
Strawberry Orange Mimosa Mocktail
Light and refreshing, perfect for lazy brunch weekends, or just a hot summer’s day, try a strawberry orange mimosa mocktail! Lazy weekends breakfasts are a must around here. Our lives are so busy, not only with the 9-5 jobs, but working on the homestead. Managing chickens, ducks, and a garden while working a full time job isn’t always easy. So, when it’s time to REST, we REST. I love those… Continue Reading
Granola Parfaits
Quick and easy breakfast, perfect for making ahead of time! Grab a jar and go! You will love these granola parfaits! When my kids were younger, meal prep HAD to happen. Otherwise, I risked the food I bought not lasting for the meal I wanted it to be for. Example-my son would eat 1/2 loaf of bread as PBJ’s, and that was the loaf I was planning on making breakfast… Continue Reading
Easy Crustless No Bake Cheesecake
Need an easy dessert that you can take to parties or gatherings? Try this crustless, no bake cheesecake! It’s ready with just 15 minutes hands on time! I love easy desserts. For our fellowship gathering, I have been making this crustless cheesecake. It’s gluten free, so that nearly everyone can enjoy it. Since we have people with celiac disease in our fellowship, I like to make sure they can enjoy… Continue Reading
Alcohol Free Charoset
A tradition at Passover, this charoset is a great side dish for just about any party or gathering as well! What exactly is charoset? Charoset is a traditional side dish served during a Passover seder. A symbol of slavery, it represents the mortar that the Hebrews were forced to make themselves to build with. It’s a sweet salad made apples, cinnamon, honey, walnuts and wine. While common for the seder,… Continue Reading
DIY Taco Seasoning
Homemade taco seasoning will make all your taco nights quick and easy! Just a few spices and you are on your way to spicy cooking! Taco night happens often around here. Most weeks, it happens multiple times. Tacos are the “go to meal” when everyone is hungry, and no one feels like cooking a lot. For seasoning, we can easily open a package of taco seasoning from the grocery store… Continue Reading