Category: recipes

  • Creamy Tuscan Chicken Bow Ties
    Creamy Tuscan Chicken Bow Ties

    This was another dinner born out of our week without a working stove. I started pulling things out of the fridge… chicken, bacon, mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes… and…

  • Creamy Pesto Gnocchi with Sausage & Bacon
    Creamy Pesto Gnocchi with Sausage & Bacon

    As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. When our stove died, dinner had to get a little creative. This creamy pesto gnocchi came together entirely in…

  • Brown Butter Sourdough Salted Caramel Cookies
    Brown Butter Sourdough Salted Caramel Cookies

    These started with my brown butter sourdough chocolate chip cookies… except one day I decided to leave out the chocolate chips and fill those perfectly imperfect little cookie…

  • Brown Butter Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Brown Butter Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies

    These are the cookies I make when a regular chocolate chip cookie just isn’t going to cut it. Brown butter gives them that rich, slightly nutty flavor, sourdough…

  • Quick Refrigerator Pickles
    Quick Refrigerator Pickles

    Quick refrigerator pickles are one of the easiest ways to use up fresh cucumbers without getting out the canner. They’re crisp, tangy, and take just a few minutes…

  • Easy Homemade Sauerkraut
    Easy Homemade Sauerkraut

    Homemade sauerkraut is one of the simplest ways to start fermenting at home. It’s really just cabbage, salt, and time… no special ingredients and no complicated process. Once…

  • Quick Pickled Red Onions
    Quick Pickled Red Onions

    Quick pickled red onions are one of those things I almost always want a jar of in the fridge. They take just a few minutes to put together…

  • Easy Homemade Chicken Broth
    Easy Homemade Chicken Broth

    Homemade chicken broth is one of the easiest ways to get a little more out of what you already have in the kitchen. I save chicken bones and…

  • Homemade Vanilla Extract
    Homemade Vanilla Extract

    Homemade vanilla extract is one of those things that sounds much more complicated than it actually is. You need two ingredients, a jar, and some patience — that’s…

  • Easy Freezer Apple Pie Filling
    Easy Freezer Apple Pie Filling

    This easy freezer apple pie filling is one of my favorite ways to put up extra apples without having to can another thing. Everything gets mixed together, portioned…