How to make your own homemade sweet pickle relish. After a bit of soaking time you’ll have a super easy, tasty and customizable relish topping for sandwiches, deviled eggs and more! Recently I was at the store buying sweet pickle relish for a special recipe (coming soon!) and realized most of the options available were…
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Dinner Party: How to Make Your Own Homemade Pasta
Host a dinner party and put your friends or family to work! This post will help you make your own homemade pasta from scratch. Have you ever made your own pasta? It’s not nearly as hard as you might think, as long as you have the right tools! Ingredients you’ll need for homemade pasta: Flour Eggs…
Vegan Whipped Cream (Coconut Cream), 4 flavors
Vegan whipped cream made from coconut cream. Plus 4 flavors to try: chocolate, vanilla, peanut butter and cinnamon! Vegan whipped cream, or whipped cream made from coconut milk/cream is not a new concept. But I was playing around with some different flavors and thought it would be good to share. To make it vegan, you…
How to Make Homemade Popcorn, 3 Ways
How to make homemade popcorn, 3 different ways. No need to buy store-bought popcorn bags when it’s so easy to make healthy preservative-free popcorn at home! Years ago, my mom gave everyone a popcorn maker and organic popcorn kernels for Christmas, including a list of all the chemicals and additives that are in traditional store-bought…
How to Substitute Fresh Spinach for Frozen
How to substitute fresh spinach for frozen spinach! Or, a simple way to saute spinach for an easy side dish. Several recipes I’ve attempted lately have called for frozen spinach. I love spinach, but I have some trouble getting flavorful dishes when I use the frozen spinach. For example, I’m going to blame frozen spinach for the…
Cauliflower pizza crust
Cauliflower pizza crust – for those days when you really want pizza but not all the carbs, or need a gluten free alternative. Okay, I did it. I jumped on the bandwagon. That pizza picture? That pizza crust is made out of cauliflower. Say what? You’re probably in one of three categories: 1) You tried…
How to cut and cook spaghetti squash
How to cut and cook a spaghetti squash in multiple ways – and a trick to get longer strands that might actually resemble spaghetti! I’ve tested multiple ways to cut and cook a spaghetti squash and today I’m sharing all the secrets. Usually I prefer to buy squash like butternut pre-cut when possible, but spaghetti squash is…
Rough puff pastry
Rough puff pastry – make your own homemade puff pastry dough in less time than you think! Flashback to a few days ago: me, standing in the frozen section of the grocery store. Puff pastry dough was nowhere to be found. Rather than giving up the idea of my new recipe, I decided I’d figure…
How to make vanilla extract
How to make homemade vanilla extract. Super easy, fun, and cost effective. Great as gifts for Christmas, housewarming parties, or your foodie friends birthdays! Let’s talk about vanilla extract. If you’re a baker, you use a lot of the stuff. Those tiny little jars you buy at the grocery store probably don’t last you very…