I recently needed to cook a chunk of frozen pork roast in the crockpot. The meat wasn't big enough to necessitate using my large crockpo...

I enjoy making bread-sorts-of-things from scratch, though I have a lot of practicing to do before I get very good at it. One thing that has ...

It's been forever since I've posted for Kitchen Tip Tuesday, but this week I came up with TWO tips to share! (You'll have to com...

It's been a while since I've been inspired to post a kitchen tip, but as I was preparing pepper steak for lunch today, I realized t...

Yesterday, I bought a quart of plain yogurt and used it to make whey , which I then used last night to make a double batch of soaked oats . ...

Tammy wrote a post a while ago about saving energy while preheating your oven . When I came to the part about it taking five minutes for he...

This isn't a new tip - you've likely seen it before. But I had to read it a couple dozen times before thinking "huh, I oughta t...

Something that I have found handy in the kitchen is a silicone basting brush. Here is one on Amazon that is similar to what I have - I put i...

Happy Kitchen Tip Tuesday! Tammy's Recipes took a couple of well-deserved weeks off and I kind of got out of the groove. I've been m...

I'm a big proponent of freezing food, and also a big proponent of re-using containers, whatever they may be. However, did you know that ...

The pepper plants in my garden continue to produce well, and I still have some blooms so it looks like we'll be getting peppers up until...

My parents are so generous to us; a few years ago, this manifested itself in a vacuum sealer. I didn't realize what a treasure it was un...

In the summer, I like to use the oven as little as possible. In preparing for our week-long car trip to Wyoming, I wanted to pack some snack...

Sometimes it can be tough to get toddlers to eat enough protein. If Goose asks for eggs in the morning, I'm happy to oblige! The problem...

The other day when I was cracking eggs for breakfast, a tiny piece of shell splintered off into the bowl of cracked eggs. If you've ever...

My kitchen tip for today is how to stack plastic storage containers like Tupperware, Rubbermaid, etc. The natural tendency is to put the sm...

Previous posts have noted that I like to brown, divide, and freeze hamburger, make ahead casseroles, make and freeze sloppy joes , freeze ...

Learning to eat is messy business. When Goose was starting solids, I used baby rice cereal and baby oatmeal to thicken her baby food so it w...

Hubs mowed our lawn today, and I helped a bit. I think it's been six weeks that our mower has been in the shop (we think they lost our n...

Since we live in the middle of nowhere, if I'm out of an ingredient, just running to the store isn't an option. Plus I do a lot of c...