Homemade butter. It sounds like a delicious luxury, doesn’t it? Our great grandmothers who had no choice but to sit at the butter churn if they wanted butter would probably laugh at us. You have it so good now! The luxury is in being able to go to the storeRead More
Homemade Chocolate Covered Cherries – Success!
It’s been a couple years since I first tried to make my own homemade chocolate covered cherries – and it was a big failure (you can read that original story here: Failed Chocolate Covered Cherries). They were a pretty sorry looking mess as you can see in the picture below.Read More
3 Recipes Using Creme de Menthe
The last recipe in our homemade liqueurs series was Creme de Menthe, a minty liqueur that can be used in baking or cocktails. And to give you a few ways to use your homemade Creme de Menthe, here are 3 ideas to put it to good use. I suppose itRead More
Chocolate Pudding Dessert: Adding Homemade Updates
My adventures in the kitchen last week once again highlighted why it can be frustrating to rely too much on recipes that use a particular size or brand of a pre-packaged convenience item at the grocery store. As the years go by, these products may be discontinued or reintroduced inRead More
Grandma’s Apple Pie Filling
This week when I turned to my favorite craft column in our Sunday newspaper, I saw a headline that I think all of us DIY crafty types need to hear once in awhile. It said “Dear Crafters, it’s OK to not make everything this Halloween”. She went on to sayRead More
How To Make Stabilized Whipped Cream
It’s been a couple years now since I first wrote about how to make homemade whipped cream. It’s one of those little tricks that once you start doing it, you realize how simple it really is. I very seldom buy Cool Whip anymore and have come to much preferRead More
Bisquick Blueberry Muffins
One of the homemade recipes that I’ve shared here that I always keep on hand in my pantry is my homemade version of Bisquick. It’s a simple and frugal mixture of flour, baking powder, salt and shortening. Because I always have a canister of my homemade Bisquick in my pantry,Read More
Quick Mix Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
Who likes homemade cookies? Me! Who likes homemade cookies but doesn’t feel like baking them in the summer and would rather float around in the pool instead? Umm, me again. What to do? Well, many times in the summer I rely on my No Bake Chocolate Cookies which are always aRead More
Got Ripe Bananas? Make Homemade Banana Bread!
I like having bananas around the house. Until I don’t. Bananas sure have a way of turning ripe, brown, and spotty when you’re not paying attention. And then what? I always have good intentions. I’ll bake some bread! I’ll make a smoothie! I’ll freeze them! But usually I don’t.Read More
My Favorite Cut-Out Cookie Recipe
Most of the time when I make homemade cookies I stick with the basic stuff. I whip up some chocolate chip cookies, or I stir together my trusty Chocolate No Bake cookies, or these tasty Oatmeal Chip cookies. But every so often I get a little more ambitious (usually aroundRead More
DIY Evaporated Milk
When a recipe calls for a can of evaporated milk, did you know there’s a quick and easy substitute you can use instead? This little trick will let you make a homemade version of evaporated milk and it’s easy on the budget too! What Is Evaporated Milk? Evaporated milk isRead More
My Favorite Magic Bars
This recipe is an oldie but a goodie and has been a staple in my recipe box for years. When I want a homemade sweet treat, this recipe is a quick and easy one to fall back on that doesn’t take much effort because you can breeze through itRead More
Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk
If at first you don’t succeed – try, try, again. And that’s exactly what a reader encouraged me to do after she read about my failed attempt to make your own sweetened condensed milk. She advised that she’s had good success with one of the same recipes I experimented withRead More
Can You Make Your Own Powdered Sugar?
Have you come across this recipe too? And maybe like me, you’ve been tempted to give it a try? The recipe goes something like this: To make your own powdered sugar combine 1 cup of granulated sugar and a tablespoon of cornstarch in a food processor and mix untilRead More
Refreshing Lime Pie
Now that we know how to make our own graham cracker pie crusts, we need something tasty to fill them up with, right? For summer time, this refreshing lime pie really hits the spot and stirs together super fast too for those hot days when we’re all feeling aRead More
How To Make A Graham Cracker Pie Crust
Sure, it can be convenient to buy the ready-made graham cracker pie crusts, but did you know it’s almost as quick and easy to Make Your Own graham cracker pie crust? It’s really just a matter of crushing some graham crackers, adding a little sugar and melted butter, andRead More
Baking Brown Bread in Tin Cans
Today I’m taking a little trip down memory lane. It all started a few weeks ago when I saw something on Pinterest about baking in tin cans instead of using ordinary pans. I read a little further and smiled because it was as if they had discovered something brand new. Read More
Holiday Treats: Snickers Cookies
I love these cookies. And judging by the amount of times I get asked for this recipe, I would say lots of other people love them too. What makes these cookies so tasty and special? There’s a secret ingredient hidden inside. A miniature Snickers candy bar! The little candy barsRead More
Make Your Own Favorite Hostess Treats
By now you’ve probably heard the news that Hostess announced it would shut down operations and go out of business. Yikes! No More Twinkies!! People are already going into a panic and buying bagfuls of Hostess snacks before it’s too late. But before you totally freak out – rememberRead More
How To Make Brown Sugar
This isn’t the first time I’ve tried to make a homemade version of brown sugar by mixing together molasses and white sugar. My first attempt, however, was a dismal failure and I called it my bizarre brown sugar. But a couple of comments from readers inspired me to try againRead More