by Texas Homesteader ~ *contains affiliate link There’s a favored family holiday no-cook sweet cherry dessert that my family loves. It’s filled with deliciousness such as cherry pie filling, whipped topping, crushed pineapple, cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk. And it’s requested, errrrr… demanded every year by all in my family that I bring it. […]
by Texas Homesteader ~ Did you know you can make your own gluten-free sweetened condensed milk in literally minutes?? I haven’t actually purchased an expensive can of this milk in years once I found out how easy it is to make myself.
by Texas Homesteader ~ *includes affiliate link When my vegetable garden gives me lots of those ripe, delicious tomatoes, I want to make sure none go to waste. I’ve found that after we’ve eaten as many fresh as we could, I like to pop some in the freezer for later. But if I roast them […]
by Texas Homesteader ~ Making homemade chicken broth is beyond easy, super healthy and makes use of bones/trimmings that used to be just thrown away! And there’s a special ingredient to make it more calcium rich. Check it out.
by Texas Homesteader ~ I was dehydrating lots of vegetables from my garden. Each one was placed in a repurposed glass jar in my pantry. Then I decided to assemble various dry veggies, add some seasoning and make dehydrated salsa in a jar as a gift. The gift recipients LOVED IT!
By Texas Homesteader ~ *contains affiliate link Tomatoes are the darling of the vegetable garden around these parts. Some like to plant squash, some like peppers. But by golly almost everyone has a tomato bush (or two, or three…) in their garden! None of my tomatoes will go to waste. Even when they’re producing too […]
by Texas Homesteader ~ *contains affiliate link A dear friend told me about dehydrating tomato puree (sometimes seasoned) into a leather. WHAT?? Tomato leather?? Yes, tomato leather can be used to simplify your pizza night. Just plop a tomato leather on top of your crust and start adding fillings. The leather rehydrates as the pizza […]
by Texas Homesteader *contains affiliate link Recently I had a large quantity of tomatoes to preserve. In the process of making my sauce I removed most of the seeds and tossed them into my compost before I even cooked the tomatoes down. When the tomatoes were cooked I used a sieve to separate the cooked […]