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Fabulousa Pork Chops

I pulled a recipe from Midwest Living this last weekend–Cranberry Sausage Stuffed Pork Chops with Pumpkin Gravy.   It looked good and won first place out of a huge number of recipes, so I figured it had to be at least decent.  It was amazing!!  I used pork chops...

{Cardamon Sweet Buns}

In the video on Homemade Vanilla Extract from my previous post, I mentioned Cardamon Sweet Buns.  It was my first time trying this recipe and we LOVED them!  So much so that I wanted to share the recipe with you.  It is from the Bethel Lutheran Church cookbook in...
Homemade Vanilla Extract

Homemade Vanilla Extract

I have been wanting to make my own vanilla extract for some time now, and finally got it done today!  Not sure what took me so long and you will soon see it is VERY easy.   A couple additional comments below the video.  Oh, and I close with a dumb statement about...

{Applesauce}

Tony’s grandparents brought us over 3 buckets of apples from the tree in their backyard the other day.  I love that we are able to use apples from a family tree and that they are imperfect so I feel justified making them into applesauce.  The recipe I use for...

Homemade Tomato Sauce

We had a bumper crop of tomatoes in our garden this year, which is a good thing since the last 2 years haven’t been that great.  For the last 4 years I have been making tomato sauce for our freezer so that I don’t have to buy any.  It is perfect for...

Homemade Yogurt!

As promised, here is the homemade yogurt recipe that was passed on to me a couple weeks ago.  I have made two batches of it and am really enjoying it! Here is this simple recipe! In a crockpot, pour 1 gallon of milk.  I use whole milk, but am going to try 2% next....