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Homemade Grape Jelly
Ever since I can remember, my family has gathered together every fall to pick grapes in my grandparents’ backyard. It is a tradition that I look forward to every single year. When I was a girl, my grandparents had a huge garden and lovely orchard with grape vines running the whole length of the back […]
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Homemade Chicken Stock
One of my favorite items to buy at Costco is their rotisserie chicken. I use most of the meat to make dinner for my family of 6, and then I use the leftovers to make a nice, homemade chicken stock to use later in the week. Making broth and stock is a very simple thing […]
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Busy Morning Muffins
My kids LOVE muffins but I am seldom in the mood to make them at 7am. Every so often, when I am feeling really nice, I make a couple batches worth of muffin batter and freeze it for those mornings when cold cereal or PB toasts just aren’t going to cut it. It’s simple to […]
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How to Make an Old Fashioned Gingerbread House
In the 1960’s, my grandmother {aka Nana} and a group of ladies from her church used to make gingerbread houses to raise money for their ward building fund. She was even in the Sacramento newspaper once for all the houses she had made! I so wish I could find a copy of that newspaper article. […]
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Homemade Brown Sugar
I while back, I was asked to be a part of a provident living/self reliant fair. I was asked to teach on making your own mixes and how to make many of the foods that we buy at the store from scratch. Did you know that many of the items we purchase from the grocery store can be made […]
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Strawberry Lemon Water
My extended family has had a decades long debate over what a carbonated drink should be called. The California side says “soda” and the mountain fam says “pop” then add in my Texan sister who calls all of it “Coke” and you’ve got a real lively conversation. Soda… Pop… Coke… Beverage…Whatever you call it, I […]
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Easy Raw Granola
*After 6 years of dark old photos and no real recipe card, I finally got around to updating this post. You can find it HERE. I am addicted to granola. I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a granola out there that I wouldn’t love. A few years ago one of my closest friends, KYNDRA, gave […]
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