Lately I feel like I’ve been going through a lot of raisins at my house, probably because I like to sprinkle a generous handful on my oatmeal every morning. And I guess that’s why I came up with the bright idea that if I like to always have raisins inRead More
DIY Dishwasher Soap Hack = Failure
I’m always on the lookout for quick and easy homemade solutions using things you may already have around the house. I always think if you can use what you have, to make what you need, well that’s a great thing! So when I recently came across a tip for aRead More
Homemade Pancake Syrup: Still Not Right
Homemade pancake syrup is one of those DIY recipes that I gave a try a few years back and didn’t much care for it. My batch turned out VERY sweet and VERY thin. I decided it was a recipe that needed more work but then never gave it a tryRead More
2 Ingredient Ice Cream? No Thank You.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. That old saying came to mind this week when I was trying out a recipe for no-churn, two ingredient ice cream that I’ve been seeing all around the internet lately. I had high hopes for this recipe after IRead 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
Homemade Chocolate Covered Cherries – Were An Epic Failure
I had such big plans. I was going to make some awesome homemade chocolate covered cherries. It was going to be perfect timing for Valentine’s Day. Hubby was going to be so impressed with my decadent and delicious homemade treat. Instead I presented him with these: Ummm, here youRead More
Can You Shave Your Legs With Olive Oil?
It was such a short sentence at the end of the article I was reading that I almost missed it. The author had been describing a face cleansing method using oils and in the very last paragraph added a final thought along the lines of “oh by the way,Read More
Homemade Glitter That Doesn’t Glitter
If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. That was certainly the case when I tried to make homemade glitter from salt. The instructions said to combine 1/4 cup of salt with a 1/2 teaspoon of food coloring. Spread on a baking sheet and bake forRead More
Homemade Liquid Hand Soap: My Disappointing Results
I’ve had a recipe in my stash for a while now for homemade liquid hand soap. Having made several batches of homemade liquid laundry soap, I quickly recognized the familiar method for the hand soap recipe. You grate up a bar of soap and then melt it into some hotRead More
The Make Your Own Sweetened Condensed Milk Experiment
Sometimes I really wonder about the recipes I find. Is anybody truly using them? Or do they just get passed around, over and over again, with everybody thinking they must work. Case in point – the recipes I found for homemade sweetened condensed milk. They were close, but notRead More
Half Baked Ideas – Strange Margarine Spread
From time to time I post about my less than successful experiments in the kitchen. These are usually first trys and I’m always hopeful that I’ll come up with a better solution for whatever didn’t go quite right. I recently tried a recipe that was supposed to be a way to make spread margarineRead More
Half Baked Ideas – Bizarre Brown Sugar
Sometimes my Make Your Own creations sure don’t turn out like I think they will. I had jotted down a recipe I came across for making your own brown sugar. It said to mix together a 1/2 cup of white sugar and 2 tablespoons of unsulphured molasses. Well, IRead More