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Dry Mixes, Everything Else, Sauce

Scalloped Potato Sauce mix

This scalloped potato sauce mix is the perfect sauce for all those potatoes you dehydrated and wonder what to do with now! This is a thick, creamy sauce with a hint of chive. Add in sauce mix, hot water, butter and dehydrated potatoes. This bakes into the most delicious side […]

Everything Else

Homemade Wheat Thins!

Homemade crackers are the perfect solution to cracker shortages and these wheat thins rock! They are so good, you may purchase another box of wheat thins from the store! Inrgedients and Variations Flour: I like to use half wheat flour and half all purpose four but you can use all […]

Breads & Rolls

Amish Butterhorns

Amish butterhorns are pillowy soft, little rolls of heaven! Change them up and add jams, jellies, chocolates or even pizza filling to the center of theses rolls. You won’t be sorry! Ingredients and Variations Flour: I like to use bread flour but all purpose can certainly be used. You can […]

Canning

Steak & Ale Soup for Pressure Canning

Steak & ale soup is yummy and comforting, so why not can some up for a rainy day? Steak & ale soup with some fresh, crusty bread to soak up the delicious broth! Some much better homemade than store bought in a tin can. Ingredients and Variations Meat: Round steak […]

Baking, Retro Recipes

Tomato Soup Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Tomato soup cake is a retro, blast from the past! It was created in the late 1920’s by the Campbell’s Soup company and became popular in the 1940’s and has evolved and morphed into several recipes. This cake takes help from a can of condensed tomato soup and has been […]

Canning

Chicken Paprika for Canning

My chicken paprika is so flavorful and makes the perfect meal starter! Serve over top of some eggs noodle, rice, squash or mashed potatoes and sprinkle with some fresh chopped parsley. Chicken Paprika or Paprikash comes from Hungary and is perhaps, their most well known dish. Paprikás Csirke to Hungarians, […]

Appetizers

Garlic Knot Pepperoni Roses

Family pizza night has just been elevated. You’re welcome! Make these fun garlic knot pepperoni roses on your next pizza night. They are easy, delicious and make wonderful appetizers. Add extra ingredients and make them your own. Ingredients and Variations Dough: This is a soft, garlic and herb bread dough […]

Canning

Drunken Beans (Frijoles Borrachos)

Drunken beans are a lot like charro beans (ranchero beans) except they are cooked with beer, have a little sweetness added and are flavored with gentle spice. These beans area delicious side dish and a great alternative to refried beans. I have created this home canned, shelf stable version so […]