Category Archives: Recipes & Cooking

Favorite simple yet delicious recipes in my Texas Homestead kitchen.

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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Remaking Leftovers: Quick Beef Quesadillas from Leftover Meatloaf

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Leftover meatloaf can be so versatile. I turned plain leftover meatloaf into something new and delicious – beef quesadillas! 

It made a lot – enough for supper and lunches the next day too. And since I was using leftover food, it was almost free. 

Leftover meatloaf is versatile! I'll make sure it's not wasted by remaking it into something new and delicious - quesadillas! #TexasHomesteader

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Recipe: Savory Homemade Crackers – Easy & Super-Quick!

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How easy is it to make homemade crackers? I love to make things for myself for both financial as well as environmental reasons. So now my mind got to rolling. Hummmm… I saw something online the other day about how easy it was to make your own crackers …

RECIPE: EASY SAVORY HOMEMADE CRACKERS - heavier than a saltine they worked perfectly for my homemade hummus. Give 'em a try! #TexasHomesteader

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Homestead Hack: Don’t Waste Onion Trimmings!

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Recently I was trying to chop some purple onions for the freezer. I had so many of them and used as many as I could fresh.

But I also wanted to make sure they didn’t go bad before I could use them all. Plus it’s so nice to have chopped onions as close as my freezer to simply toss into any recipe.

As I was trimming those tough neck parts & the hard-to-chop dense section on the bottom where the roots once were, I paused before I tossed the wasted parts into my compost bucket. 

There might still be a way to put these wasted parts to good use…

HOMESTEAD HACK: DON'T WASTE ONION TRIMMINGS! I'm Using the tougher trimmed parts from onions to replace an item I used to have to buy #TexasHomesteader

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Homestead Hack: Healthier Hot Instant Breakfast

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My mornings usually involve coffee and computer work when I first awake. Yeah, I know breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But I’m one of those people who really needs to wake up a bit before I can even THINK about eating something.

Most warmer months I like to enjoy a jar of my favorite Homemade Yogurt, sweetened with my homemade preserves – quick, easy & healthy. OR sometimes I’ll opt for a bowl of my crispy homemade granola.

But when the chill of winter hits I really want something hot to warm me up and I love the convenience of microwave oatmeal. Now I’m not picking on the Quaker Instant Oatmeal folks, their product is delicious. But those expensive packets tend to be too small a portion for me when prepared, taste way too sweet for my palate.

Plus I don’t recognize some of the ingredients on their little packets of instant oatmeal and that bothers me too.

Oh yeah, they’re convenient, and making oatmeal ain’t nothin’ new. But I wonder how easy, cheap & healthier it would be to experiment with plain oatmeal cooked & sweetened MY way instead of theirs??

HOMESTEAD HACK: HEALTHIER INSTANT HOT BREAKFAST. You can pronounce every ingredient in your hot breakfast for a mere fraction of the cost! #TexasHomesteader

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