Join us as the weather warms up for some healthy, flavorful hydration with our favorite treat of choice: lemonade. It is HOT. You’re chasing ...
Recipes
The foods we eat at home become the culture of the family. When your mom made homemade cocoa in the winter time, or dad splurged with you over his favorite cereal, what grandma brought for Thanksgiving or the cookies big sis learned to make.
These are ours. And when I don't have one to supply from my own memory bank, I can sure point you in the right direction. That's what the first few years of marriage and motherhood are for. Testing what's out there, finding the fit for your own family and adapting it to your own wooden spoons.

The Recipes:
Mom’s Big Bread Round-up
Create tried and true recipes for artisan, sandwich, yeasted, milled and sourdough bread. Let's talk bread: favorite, constantly repeated recipes, ...
Mom’s Best: Nourishing Chicken Noodle Soup
If you’ve come for quick, savory, hearty chicken noodle soup to solve your cozy or sick day woes, you’ve come to the right place! Why ...
Mom’s Best Apple Recipes: Cider, Butter & Donuts
Time to pretend it is fall with the cinnamon sweet flavors of apples: a one pot recipe for apple cider and apple butter, that with a little mama ...
Mom’s Best Garlic Scape Pesto
Join us in celebrating the end of spring with garlic scape pesto and a quick meal of sourdough cheddar waffle sandwiches! Granted, the speed of ...
Mom’s Best: Heirloom Red Salsa
My prized recipe is this salsa. In fact, it was a jar of this salsa that was given to a boy in college who later became my husband. Just for more ...
Mom’s Best: Jam Bars (+ 2022 Garden Prep)
Spring, my goodness, she is a tease. In the south, she wakes up from her winter slumber with moody weather swings while releasing the fire ants from ...
Mom’s Best: Garden Fresh Tomato Sauce
I write this post on the long evening of the summer solstice. We endured some time amongst the mosquitoes, enjoying the sunset and cleaning up cured ...
Mom’s Best: Fermented Sauerkraut
Today, let’s make a small batch of homemade sauerkraut. Sauerkraut is fermented side or topping made from red or green cabbages and ample salt. It ...
Mom’s Best: Salted Caramel Coffee Creamer
Join me in trying Jill Winger’s recipe for Salted Caramel Coffee Creamer from her cookbook, The Prairie Homestead. It is three in the ...










