Microwaved Coffee Mug Cake Love to have a little cake now and then, but not an entire cake? Making an easy coffee mug cake is a great way to enjoy a slice of cake whenever you want. This recipe easily takes 5 minutes to make and less to cook in the microwave. You can frost […]
Homemade Watermelon Jelly Recipe
Canning Watermelon Jelly Ever get a watermelon and have more than you can eat before it goes bad? We have a few recipes on what you can do with your ‘extra’ watermelon to enjoy it on your toast. You can even enjoy watermelon jelly on your ice cream, in cinnamon rolls (well, replace the cinnamon […]
Simple Pumpkin Fluff Dip
Homemade Pumpkin Fluff Dip If you love all things pumpkin, you will want to check out this pumpkin fluff dip. You can easily make this recipe and enjoy it at your next Fall party right along with your slice of pumpkin pie. This recipe does require once you have made it to place it in […]
Homemade Coffee Ice Cream
Making Coffee Ice Cream Do you love coffee? Can’t get enough of it? Have you discovered coffee ice cream? You can make it easily with some heavy cream, vanilla extract and of course coffee. And the best part, you can add as little or more coffee to the recipe to control how strong the flavor […]
Canning Chicken Stock in Instant Pot
Canning Chicken Stock Once you can your own chicken stock, you may never buy it from the store again. Canning chicken stock is a pretty easy thing to do after making a whole chicken dinner. If you have an Instant Pot, it will save you hours. Hours in processing! There are great flavors in chicken […]
Asian Orange Chicken Recipe
Flavor Filled Orange Chicken When someone in your family loves orange chicken, you want to make it for them and have it turn out well. After trying a few recipes, we’ve put together a recipe that received a thumbs up from my son. I use popcorn chicken in my recipe, because it’s easy and we […]
How To Can Spiced Pickle Beets | Canning Beets
Canning Pickled Beets Canning pickled beets is similar to canning pickles (in my opinion). You make a brine that you put the beets in and can them. Do You Have to Boil Beets for Canning? Yes! You need to wash beets, remove the beet tops (and bottoms) before boiling them for 15-30 minutes, until tender. […]
Making Sweet Corn Cob Jelly Recipe
How To Make Corn Cob Jelly If you have ever canned sweet corn, you are left with all these corn cobs and they are liquid gold to make corn cob jelly. It’s very simple to pop them in the water and start the process to collect the water and begin making jelly. What Is Corn […]
Homemade Peach Preserves With Bourbon
Bourbon Peach Preserves Small batch canning is perfect to make peach preserves with bourbon. You can make a little of this preserve and enjoy this on your toast, on ice cream and even in a pastry for turnovers. This is a low sugar recipe for that we used with our FreshTek Jam and Jelly Maker, […]
Money Saving Bargain Shopping Tips
Bargain Shopping Tips Paying a mortgage, raising young kids and filling the gas tank on the car, can really stretch the budget. When we first had the kids, diapers, food and all those things kids needed, stretched our budget and we couponed for everything. I have many bargain shopping tips we used then and now, […]
