Homestyle Cooking & Home Canning
Jello Peach Pie – Not your Grandma’s Peach Pie
Cool Summer Jello Peach Pie. In the south, nothing speaks summer more than peach juice dripping down your arm. And nothing soothes a hot...
Dried Summer Yellow Squash Chips
Taste of summer in yellow squash chips. The bounty of the garden always comes alive with the baskets of yellow summer squash making their way into...
Blackberry Pie Filling Recipe – The Taste of Summer in a Jar
Canned Blackberry Pie Filling Recipe from Scratch Not thorns in my finger tips or the 100-degree heat can keep me out of my blackberry patches this...
Homemade Nutri Grain Bars – A Healthy Makeover
Healthy Homemade Nutri-Grain Bars You can imagine my surprise when I found packaged cereal bars in my hubby's truck! Smiling he admitted that...
Fresh Spinach and Ham Pie – Step by Step
You know it is spring at my house when the spinach is ready to cut and there is fresh spinach and ham pie on the table. My family cannot get...
Double Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
An unexpected SC snow day made the perfect backdrop to create a new cookie recipe. With a warm fire and a hot cup of tea the mixing bowls came...
Vanilla Coffee Creamer – Fresh. Yummy. All Natural.
In my continued quest to know exactly what's in our food I set out to make homemade coffee creamer. I haven't used any flavored creamer in a really...
Yummy Granola Cookies
Diet or no diet some days just call for milk and cookies! I will have to take an extra-long walk tomorrow but these cookies really hit the...
Rainy Day Ginger Snaps
I had planned to mow grass today but mother-nature had other plans. Since it was raining I decided a nice warm ginger snap cookie and a cup of...
Curb that afternoon hunger with healthy granola bars
My hubby's job is one that he has a hard time stopping for lunch and by the time he gets home from work he is very hungry so my job today was to...
‘Sweet’ finds…homemade canning labels
I am already thinking about the holidays and since we are cutting way back on things this year I want to give some of my summer canning away as...
Canned homemade spaghetti sauce
I am so lucky that I have three farmers markets within 30 minutes of my house. On any given weekend I can take a short drive and find anything I may...
Hidden away in the Upstate of South Carolina is a little farm where we call home. Surrounded by century-old pecan and oak trees, we live on a 120-year-old homestead. By the grace of God, we were called to restore this 1890 farmhouse along with its barns, gardens and long-forgotten cotton field to its original working farm. Dedicating ourselves to reusing, recycling and making do we are living a very simple life building our backyard farm.
