Category Archives: Recipes & Cooking

Favorite simple yet delicious recipes in my Texas Homestead kitchen.

Seed Giveaway (Sorry, This Contest Is Over)

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When I asked RancherMan what veggies he wanted me to plant in this year’s garden he emphatically said “SPAGHETTI SQUASH!!”  I must admit I was a little surprised at his enthusiasm.  LOL

Spaghetti squash cooks into strands that visually resemble strands of spaghetti.  Now to me it doesn’t taste like pasta at all. Its taste is of a mild squash that lends itself well to the other flavors you add to the dish. And it’s certainly  low-carb way to get a dish that at least looks like pasta!

But we love spaghetti squash and although there are many ways to prepare it, I make a sort of vegetarian lasagna  that’s always been his fave.  It’s served right in the shell so it has a beautiful presentation as well.  Recently I was able to harvest our spaghetti squash and whip up his favorite cheesy spaghetti squash dish.  It was easy, delicious, healthy and quick to prepare.

Do you love spaghetti squash as much as we do? Check out this easy cheesy spaghetti squash lasagna. Quick, easy and so good! #TexasHomesteader

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One Quart At A Time: Homemade Refrigerator Sweet Pickles Recipe

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This recipe for lightly sweet and crisp sweet pickles can be made one quart at a time. Perfect since the garden doesn’t always crank out those fresh cucumbers at the same rate. And this sweet pickle recipe is so simple anyone can do it!

One Quart Refrigerator Sweet Pickle Recipe. Lightly sweet and crisp, this recipe is good for a single quart jar at a time! #TexasHomesteader

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Healthy Hydration: Honey/Ginger Haymaker’s Punch

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Recently a smart friend shared her recipe for making what she called ‘Haymaker Punch’. She uses this healthy drink as her own homemade Gatorade during the summer. ‘

Her recipe used 4 simple ingredients: apple cider vinegar, filtered water, grated ginger and honey. 

I’m a big fan of carbonated ginger drinks so I couldn’t wait to try it out!

Old-timers called it 'Haymaker's Punch' - a healthy honey/ginger drink to rehydrate the workers in the fields in brutal summer temps #TexasHomesteader

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Dehydrating Fresh Spinach To Enjoy All Year Long!

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I love fresh spinach, and I love that during early spring it produces so prolifically.  We like to eat as much spinach as we can while it’s fresh and crisp but I also want to preserve that delicious, healthy spinach to enjoy later in the season – way after the plants have bolted and are gone.  I experimented with dehydrating fresh spinach this year and I loved the results.  I wrote this piece for one of my favorite publications, Mother Earth News. C’mon y’all – check it out!

Mother Earth News Post - Dehydrated Spinach. I dehydrated fresh spinach to enjoy later in the season - I loved the results! #TaylorMadeHomestead

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Homestead Hack: Cleaner Vegetable Chopping

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Repurposing a plastic lid as a cutting board has a couple of benefits – using something I’ve already got handy and keeping those veggie juices corralled.

You know my battle cry: “Use Whatcha Got!”. Check it out, y’all!

This Homestead Hack has 2 benefits when chopping veggies - using something I've already got & keeping juices corralled. #TexasHomesteader

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SUGAR FREE No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

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Refined sugar free Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake cookies using honey & coconut oil. No oven heating up the house during the summertime plus it’s CHOCOLATE!

SUGAR-FREE Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake cookies using honey & coconut oil. No oven heating up the house during the summertime plus it's CHOCOLATE #TexasHomesteader

I used to make chocolate no-bake cookies for our kids all the time when they were growing up. It was one of their faves and they begged me to make them often. Even our youngest who was not a big chocolate-flavor fan. (I know, hard to believe she’s actually my kid, huh??)

Anyway, our guest-poster Ashley recently shared with us her four-week journey of a diet with NO refined sugar at all!

This no-sugar version of chocolate no-bake cookies was shared on her FINAL WEEK’s update. What a great sugar-free spin on a favorite recipe!

And since it’s no-bake there’s the added bonus of not heating up the house on a hot summer’s day. You’re gonna want to make these SOON!

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