This sweet potato breakfast casserole is one of my favorite ways to turn simple ingredients into a nourishing, protein-packed breakfast that’s ready whenever we need it. Made with a sweet potato crust, eggs, and a few staple ingredients, it’s endlessly customizable and perfect for using up what you have on hand. In this season of…
For a delicious burst of flavor to your favorite dish, adding pickled white onions can make all the difference. Pickled onions can be thrown together in just a couple of minutes with only 4 ingredients and can elevate your cooking to the next level! This past year, we had our first successful large onion harvest!…
A must make recipe when you need a dessert, fast! These chocolate chip blondies have only 5 simple ingredients, take a few minutes to whip up, and are a guaranteed crowd pleaser. This is my go-to recipe for those countless occasions where we are headed to an event, and I realize at the last minute,…
The comfort food staple that can be transformed with the seasons, depending on what you have on hand. This basic cottage pie recipe is a regular on our menu, perfect for both a family weeknight dinner and entertaining company. Cottage pie is a ground beef filling loaded with veggies and a savory gravy sauce, and…
Spring is here and rhubarb is exploding from garden beds. We’ve put together a list of 25 rhubarb recipes so that there is no shortage of ways to put all of that rhubarb to use. While rhubarb is typically combined with sugar and used in sweet desserts, there are a number of savory ways to…
Looking for the best bang for your buck in your garden? Striving toward a self sufficient homestead? You just found your missing piece—the three sisters! In this post, we’ll share the three sisters garden gammet: layout, timing, seed selection, harvest, and much more! Get ready, friend. Your life may very well be changed forever after…
Ditch the ultra-sugary bottles of barbecue sauce. This no ketchup BBQ sauce recipe is the perfect combination of sweet and savory and can easily be made in 15 minutes with basic kitchen staples. Barbeque sauce is one of those condiments that has a reputation of being bought from a bottle. But, like salad dressing, enchilada…
These ooey, gooey, chocolaty cookies are a delicious sweet treat. You would have no idea that they were a healthier option made with avocado! Avocado cookies come together in a few minutes with only a handful of pantry staples. We grow the majority of the food that our family eats here on our homestead, so…
Sweet and savory, this barbecue chicken stuffed inside a baked sweet potato is a delicious combination. Chicken stuffed sweet potatoes are the perfect meal to prep in advance so you have an easy meal ready when you need it! Almost every Monday, we cook a whole chicken (or 2). Enough for a meal that day,…
These banana protein muffins have it all—easy to make, full of nutrients, and still taste amazing! Made with a combination of almond flour, oat flour, and protein powder, these muffins are both flour-free and naturally sweetened with bananas and maple syrup. We have hit the “bottomless pit” stage of our child rearing. All of our…