Category Archives: {DIY}

Homemade Tomato Sauce {the easy way}

  “Ma and Laura picked the tomatoes… There were enough ripe tomatoes to make almost a gallon of preserves.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder , The Long Winter     I am so grateful – we have an abundance of tomatoes and I do mean an abundance – flowing out of our garden. It is wonderful! […]

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Sage {infused} Honey

Pardon my delay in blogging. We went away as a family to a local Christian campground last week. Upon returning, I felt (and still somewhat feel) like I was drowning in laundry, cleaning, getting things back to normal, animal chores, house chores, filling the fridge up again … and suddenly, it is August. And I’m […]

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Rosewater {DIY}

    “There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson I love roses  – what female could resist the charms of such a lovely flower? Alas, I do not love them enough to ask my husband to bring them home at a very costly expense neither […]

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The Lost Art of Pie Making

“Pie is slow food in a too fast world. Pie is a loving gesture.  Good pie is simple, wholesome and real. You know what else pie is? It’s sitting on the front porch glider having a lively conversation with family and friends,  even thought it’s too hot outside and there are a few mosquitoes to […]

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{Quick} Mixes For the Pantry

 “Ma had cooked an especially good supper because they had company. There was stewed jack rabbit with white-flour dumplings and plenty of gravy. There was a steaming-hot, thick cornbread flavored with bacon fat. There was molasses to eat on the cornbread…” -Little House on the Prairie   One thing I love to see lined up […]

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