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Our favorite articles about homemade recipes and home cooking posted on TexasHomesteader.com

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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Recipe: Vanilla-Scented Shampoo Soap Bars

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I recently shared with you the recipe for our Lavender / Rosemary cold process soap we made to include in our Christmas gift baskets. Today I’ll share the recipe we used to make a vanilla-scented shampoo bar.  Whaaaa???  A bar of soap you can use as shampoo?? Oh yeah!

As a matter of fact, I haven’t used commercial shampoo from a plastic bottle for several years. I love the creamy lather this bar makes. And you know I love that there’s no plastic bottle of shampoo for me to buy and then send the trash to the landfill. Plus these vanilla-scented shampoo bars were very well received by our gift recipients.

VANILLA SCENTED SHAMPOO SOAP BARS - See our cold-process soap recipe and procedures (including photos) for making your own shampoo bars. #TexasHomesteader

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Recipe: Homemade Cold-Process Lavender/Rosemary Soap

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I’ve had many requests for me to share our soap recipe so I’m sharing with you today. We made several batches using different oils and also different dried botanicals from our homestead.  We’re using dried lavender blooms from the beautiful lavender in my flower beds. I also enjoy using crushed dried rosemary from the mammoth rosemary bush at our porch.

COLD PROCESS LAVENDER / ROSEMARY SOAP. Making homemade soap is easy and fun, and makes great gifts! See my recipe complete with photos. #TexasHomesteader

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