Tag Archives: Homemade

East Coast Brown Bread

Posted on October 2, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

I absolutely love baking bread. There’s something therapeutic about kneading the dough and watching the loaf rise. I’ve had my sandwich bread down for quite a while but wanted to try something new. I went on the hunt for a new bread to try and came upon what appears to be an east cost favourite, brown bread! These bread has amazing flavours. With the incredible flavours of brown sugar and molasses I knew this was going to be a hit! The dark crust, the fluffy centre, seriously you just need to give this bread recipe a try. I wish I would have come up with this recipe but I discovered it discovered it on this website. Here’s the recipe for his amazing bread but you should definitely try more of his recipes. I’ve made the hot cross buns from this website and a few more, he definitely knows what he’s doing when developing these amazing recipes.

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Tagged Bread, budget friendly, delicious, east coast brown bread, Homemade, kid approved, molasses

Chicken Pot Pie

Posted on September 25, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

With the weather getting colder what’s better then a chicken pot pie! Once again I searched thru my cookbooks and found a recipe. Then I got to work making a delicious chicken pot pie for dinner. I started off by cooking a whole chicken in the instant pot and then making some bone broth after I had taken all the meat off the bones. Then I was able to dive into actually making the chicken pot pie. If you’ve been reading my blogs for a while you probably know that I am currently obsessed with The Pioneer Woman otherwise known as Ree Drummond. So if you have a chance try this recipe as well. My family loved it and it was even better the next day.

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Tagged budget friendly meal, chicken, chicken pot pie, comfort meals, delicious, feeding my family, Homemade, Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond, What We Ate Today

Sourdough Skillet

Posted on September 9, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

I love having a sourdough starter. However sometimes it gets away on me. I think I’ll be using it so I feed it and then all of a sudden I have a bunch of extra starter I need to bake with. So I remembered seeing a YouTuber make a sourdough skillet among other recipes and set out to find her blog. If you need a recipe for sourdough you have got to check out farmhouseonboone.com . She also has great YouTube videos on how to make and maintain your sourdough, life on a homestead etc. Here’s the recipe I tried tonight.

Although the top looks a little darker then I would like it definitely wasn’t burnt. I added whatever veggies I had on hand. Some carrots, onions, celery, broccoli and peppers. I don’t think there’s a combination of veggies that would be bad in here.

So if you have a lot of sourdough your looking to use. I highly recommend this recipe.

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Tagged budget friendly, delicious, feeding my family, ground beef, Homemade, Sourdough, veggies, What We Ate Today

Sourdough Banana Muffins

Posted on September 7, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

I’m here again with yet another Pioneer Woman recipe. This time it’s sourdough chocolate chip muffins. Now hopefully Ree wouldn’t be mad but I changed this up a bit. In stead of using only chocolate chips I used both chocolate and vanilla chips just make these muffins that much more extra lol. The kids gobbled these up quick and the one I got to taste was divine. Here’s the link to the recipe. And with homeschooling or even traditional school starting back up these would be great to make in a giant batch and freeze. That is if you can keep the kids away and you don’t indulge in them before getting them in the freezer.

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Tagged banana, Breakfast, budget friendly, chocolate chip, delicious, dessert, feeding my family, Homemade, kid friendly, snack, Sourdough

Sourdough Sandwich Bread

Posted on September 5, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

If your familiar with sourdough you know that a lot of the recipes for bread call for a long fermentation period. And while I can appreciate the benefits and the flavour of a long fermentation, sometimes a mom just doesn’t have time to wait 12 hours for bread. I set out for not only quick recipe but also one I could throw in my bread machine and walk away from. I ultimately decided to give this recipe a go. I did however change a few things. I let my machine run the full dough cycle. Once it was done I put it on a lightly floured surface flattened into a rectangle, rolled it up and set it in my pullman pan for 30 minutes. Then I baked it at 350 for 40 minutes. It was perfect and delicious. If you prefer a darker crust feel free to bake an additional 5-10 minutes. When pinched for time will definitely be making this one again.

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Just like Ma Ingalls

Posted on August 31, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

As some of you may know I homeschool my three kiddos. We love to read and have been working our way thru The Little House On The Prairie series. Recently we finished reading By The Shore Of Silver Lake. There’s one chapter that describes Caroline making some sourdough Biscuits and sausage gravy. They described it so well that the kids asked if we could please look in our Little House cookbooks and make a batch. But their requests didn’t end there. They wanted to make it a challenge as well. They wanted to compare store bough canned biscuits to Ma Ingalls biscuits. And it’s no surprise that the from scratch sourdough biscuits won the challenge. Here’s an amazon link to the cookbook I found the recipe in. I’m sure now that we’ve dipped our toes into cooking like Ma Ingalls we will definitely be trying more recipes in the cookbook.

The more I homeschool (we are going on year 8 this year), the more I realize that schooling varies from day to day. We have our bookwork and written assignments to do for sure. But if you instil a little bit of fun with making a read a loud book come to life thru art projects and cooking, you will be teaching them many skills without them even realizing it. How to measure flour, how to measure liquids, how to measure butter etc just a few skills they picked up by making these biscuits and they get to enjoy the fruits of their labor in the process.

These are the sourdough Biscuits with sausage gravy on top.

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Tagged Biscuits, feeding my family, Homemade, Homeschooling, kid friendly, Sausage Gravy, Sourdough, What We Ate Today

Pizza Muffins

Posted on June 30, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

These delicious muffins are a quick and delicious way to make pizza without going thru the effort of making the dough or picking up the phone and ordering take out. They’re also portable so you can take them with you as you’re heading out the door. You can make them basic like I did here or add in any fixings you would to your favourite pizza.

The best part about these muffins is they start with a base of Bisquick baking mix and other staples your most like to have around the house. And they only take 15 minutes to bake. That’s faster then grabbing take out and will also save you some cash.

I made this batch regular size muffins but you can also make them into mini muffins for a party or toddlers.

Pizza Muffins

Servings 12 muffins

Equipment

muffin tin
mixing bowl
mixing spoon
Measuring cups and spoons

Ingredients

1.5 cups Bisquick mix
1 cup shredded mozzarella
1 tsp italian seasoning
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 cup cut up pepperoni
1/2 cup pizza sauce

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Mix all ingredients except pizza sauce in a large mixing bowl. Divide into greased 12 regular muffin tins or 24 mini muffin tins
Bake 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Serve with warmed pizza sauce for dipping.

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No Bake Cornflake Cookies

Posted on June 20, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

With the price of groceries rising day by day, I am finding myself looking at ingredients in my pantry. We have always been a family that likes to bake from scratch but I think it’s even more important to do so now. I’ve had a box of Cornflakes staring at me in the cupboard for quite a while now. My kids don’t love eating it as a breakfast cereal. So I was on a mission to find a recipe to not let the cereal go to waste. There are several no bake cookies for Cornflakes but I settles on one that also uses marshmallows since I had some of those leftover from this winters hot chocolate bar area. My 11 year old and I have a blast making these cookies and they came together pretty quickly. I would mention that after making the recipe as written, the peanut butter lovers in us would add more peanut butter next time. This recipe is definitely being printed and added to the family cookbook. Here’s a link to the recipe we used today. I hope you give these a try especially since the warm weather is coming, and you probably won’t feel like turning on the stove.

This is 1 of 3 pans we made and the cookies are a decent size.

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Tagged baking with kids, budget friendly, Cornflakes, Homemade, keep the oven off, marshmellows, pantry baking, peanut butter

Pizza Roll Ups

Posted on June 15, 2022 by rwilson | Leave a comment

The other day my friend was gracious enough to keep two of the kids overnight. I was headed into surgery the next day and had a bunch of nervous energy. What better way to channel that energy then to bake some pizza rolls ups to send along with the kids. I used my basic pizza dough recipe but instead of flattening it out into a round I made it a rectangle and cut into rolls. The best part about this recipe is the dough is made in the bread machine so there’s not much hands on needed but it’s definitely a crowd pleaser. This recipe is so versatile as you can add whatever you want into this dough… today it’s pizza maybe tomorrow it will be BBQ chicken roll ups the possibilities are endless. I hope you try and enjoy these.