Summer Tomato Salad This tomato salad is a garden dream! Made with fresh tomatoes, finely chopped red onion, cucumber, green bell pepper and basil, it’s so fresh tasting! Simply add the veggies and olive oil dressing mix to a bowl, give it a stir and let it sit on the counter for 30 minutes to marinate the flavors together. And now you have a simple yummy salad to serve, especially good on a hot Summer day when you don’t want to cook!...

Easy Chocolate Truffles These truffles are so easy to make and only require a couple ingredients. The ingredients aren’t anything fancy, you might already have them in your kitchen! You’ll need: semi-sweet chocolate chips sweetened condensed milk vanilla cocoa powder (unsweetened or sweetened) or powdered sugar to roll them in The result is super fudgy chocolate truffles that will melt in your mouth. These taste just like chocolate fudge, but in truffle ball form....

Starbucks Pumpkin Scones Recipe Love Starbucks Pumpkin Scones but want to make your own at home? I got you covered. Once you make them in your own kitchen, you’ll never buy them at the coffee shop again! These Pumpkin Scones are everything a scone should be. They’re crumbly, they’re moist, they aren’t too heavy, and they’re covered in a sweet cinnamon icing. They scream Fall! And they also scream eat me!...

Easy gravy from scratch Learn How to Make Gravy from scratch using 5 ingredients! Ready to eat in just 10 minutes, this chicken gravy is so delicious and mashed potatoes best friend. Gravy is a salty, savory sauce that has the ability to make simple foods POP with flavor. A traditional gravy recipe is made from pan drippings (usually from the Thanksgiving turkey) and is elevated with fresh herbs and butter....

Well we aren’t quite there yet, but we’re close. Tomato season is almost here! We put our tomato plants in the ground in the beginning of June so in the next few weeks I hope to see (and pick) all the fresh tomatoes I can dream of! To get you ready for tomato picking season, I created this yummy Roasted Tomato Salad which is perfect as an appetizer, a side dish, a snack (I eat them with a fork!...

Healthy Homemade Nesquik Milk As a kid I loved Nesquik strawberry milk. Do you guys remember when Nesquik syrup used to come in bunny shaped bottles? I used to love those bottles so much that I would call it “bunny milk”! Lately I’ve had a craving for Nesquik but I wanted to make my own Strawberry Milk recipe with fresh strawberries and simple ingredients that I felt good about. This has become one of my family’s favorite Summer drinks when we’re picking strawberries from the garden....

Black Bean Stew Recipe This Black Bean Stew will warm you up on a cold Winter night. It will also make you happy because it’s ready in 30 minutes and it’s a one pot meal, which means less dishes, which means immediate happiness. Seasoned ground beef is combined with cans of black beans, diced tomatoes and corn in beef broth and then deliciously simmered. Then you have to serve it with some shredded cheese and crunchy fritos (or tortilla chips!...

Easy Cabbage Roll Casserole If you love cabbage rolls, but don’t love all the work involved, this easy baked cabbage roll casserole is for you! It’s definitely one of my favorite meals to prepare. It’s super easy, hearty, filling and the perfect choice for an easy dinner option. As a girl, I would always look forward to when my Mom told me it was Cabbage Roll night! Her cabbage rolls were passed on to by her Polish Mother, and now I’m sharing it in casserole form....

Chewy Granola Bars Just Like Quaker My kids used to love Quaker chocolate chip granola bars but I got sick of buying them as their price increased. I decided to start making our own chocolate chip granola bars and was surprised by how easy they were with basic ingredients we pretty much always have in our kitchen! These taste just like Quaker bars, but even better because they’re homemade! They make for a great afternoon snack or help a late night sweet tooth craving!...

Right now I’m bean obsessed. We’ve been cooking our dry black beans we grew in the garden during the Summer on cold nights and it’s been such a treat to enjoy those grown with love beans during the Winter. I’ll be sharing a “How to Grow Black Beans” DIY soon because they’re so easy to grow and for me they’re one of the proudest garden accomplishments! I mean seriously how cool is it to grow your own beans?...

Want to make stuffing in the crockpot? I’m not going to lie to you. This stuffing is kind of life changing. You all know I love my Amish Potato Stuffing so much, but this is very close in the “this is the best stuffing ever race”. I’m also not going pretend that I didn’t eat this for lunch 2 days in a row. Nothing else. Just a big bowl of stuffing....

Remember when you were just little guys growing in our loft under a light? And now look at you, you’re all grown up! Let’s look back on the broccoli… I remember your first day where you were transplanted outside. It was a chilly and wet day, but you were brave! You lived under the greenhouse, but we’d open it often to give you a little hello. You were growing slowly....

Have you heard of the SNOO bassinet? I like to describe it as the most modern, beautiful, amazing, life changing baby bassinet ever. If there’s one item we couldn’t live without (besides food and diapers) in Enceladus’s first 3 months it would be the SNOO. SNOO, I love you. I love you so much. If you follow me me on social media or read back posts you will know that for the first 12 weeks Enceladus had a pretty severe case of colic....

Garlic is a must have ingredient for many cuisines and tasty dishes. It can be quite easy to grow in your garden or you can buy garlic in bulk for cheap, but keeping it usable for long periods of time until you use it may be a challenge. Here’s the best ways on how to store garlic for long periods. Tip: Learn how to plant and harvest garlic – it’s so easy to grow your own!...

This is an easy crockpot recipe making a whole chicken and vegetables at the same time for a simple dinner that’s waiting for you. You’ll want to use a whole chicken, anywhere between 4 and 6 pounds, and a variety of vegetables. I’ll also provide the times for both HIGH and LOW as I know sometimes you want a chicken fast, while other times you’d like to throw it in the morning and come back in the afternoon....

Easy Stuffed Green Peppers My family loves stuffed peppers, especially when it’s bell pepper picking season in the garden! When we’re picking lots of peppers this is a must make (along with my Unstuffed Bell Pepper Casserole that we freeze!). Bell peppers are boiled first to soften (don’t skip it!) and then stuffed with a yummy ground beef, rice and diced tomato mixture. Once the peppers are stuffed, we cover with tomato soup and bake for a little bit before sprinkling mozzarella cheese on top to really take them to the next level....

Homemade tomato paste recipe If you have a garden, then I’m sure you’re more than familiar with a common problem: ending up with SO MANY tomatoes in your garden! Whether you choose to make roma tomato sauce, tomato soup, diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, the best fresh salsa, roasted roma tomatoes or fresh tomato powder, the options are truly endless. One of my favorite ways to preserve our tomatoes is to make homemade tomate paste with fresh tomatoes to freeze to use later in the year!...

Easy Homemade Scones Recipe I’m all about recipes that are easy and delicious, and that’s why I wanted to share this easy scones recipe with you! From start to end (including baking time) you can have scones ready to eat in 30 minutes! Now that is easy! Homemade scones have been on my “must conquer” recipe list for quite some time. Making the perfect scone is hard and I usually was left with something that was dense and cake-like and not crumbly and light, how scones should be....

German Chocolate Cake Frosting This German chocolate cake frosting is incredible! It’s thick, sweet and perfect to frost your chocolate cake, cupcakes or brownies with! Skip the store bought cake frosting and make your own! The key to perfect German chocolate cake frosting is to make sure you stir it long enough on the stove so it thickens up. This takes about 10 minutes of constant whisking, but trust me it’s worth it!...

We decided we were going to add a few rain barrels on the land to collect water for the garden. We are trying to be “off the grid” as much as possible for this adventure so it made sense to us to try to catch all the free water we could. For this, we built a shed in the garden and added gutters to it to collect water into the rain barrels....