This Zucchini Lasagna is a delicious grain free recipe, perfect for using up all those summer squash that the garden is overflowing with. 'Tis the season for gardens which overfloweth with cucumbers, zinnias, and a whole lot of summer squash. I don't know how the conditions are in your neck of the woods, but as for the backyard of the farmhouse, zucchini have no trouble thriving. Usually somewhere around January, my memory of the summer abundance has wiped away, and I throw a couple squash in … [Read more...]
Healthy Lunch Ideas for Family
This week I am sharing what we eat in a week for lunch, here at the farmhouse. I have seven healthy lunch ideas for family. With homemade sourdough tortillas, and English muffins, most of these ideas are also great for on the go! Ever since sharing my videos on What we Eat in a Week for Dinner- Easy Healthy Meal Ideas for Family and Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Family, I have had soo many requests for a lunch edition. I hesitated to share this for a while, because it's really just more of the … [Read more...]
Toasted Coconut Popsicles
This recipe for toasted coconut popsicles is a family favorite for the summertime. They are sweet, refreshing, and super simple to whip up. The quality ingredients make it a guilt free treat. Ok, I have to admit I'm still kind of new to the whole food blogging thing. Do you have any idea how hard it is to photograph popsicles?! Extremely! They were melting all over my counter, which explains why some of them look like they have a bite out of them. Next time I will know the camera needs to be … [Read more...]
Healthy Quinoa Nachos Without Chips
This easy lunch idea is perfect when you need something quickly. Healthy Quinoa Nachos come together with just a few basic ingredients in under 30 minutes. Healthy Quinoa Nachos Without Chips Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ASmPtu7OAg I do this thing, that is probably slightly annoying to my poor family, where I get on kicks. For a while it was meatloaf, potatoes and broccoli. Then, I went through a pretty serious potato soup phase. Back in the fall of '16 I bought 30 spaghetti … [Read more...]
How to Make Yogurt in the Instant Pot
Learn how to make yogurt in the Instant Pot, to enjoy this awesome snack on the cheap. We are all about easy and healthy snacks in the farmhouse, Instant pot yogurt and granola are a staple. These are affiliate links, which means I make a small commission at no extra cost to you. See my full disclosure HERE. Mastering Homemade Yogurt Yogurt making has been more of a saga over the last ten years, than something I could say I confidently mastered five years ago. First, I tried the … [Read more...]
Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Family
I share what we eat in a week to give you some healthy breakfast ideas for family. We like to keep our menu pretty simple and basic. If you guys follow along very much with the farmhouse shenanigans, you know that I am not much of a planner. Be it meals, blog content, projects, you name it..I'm pretty much always just taking one step at a time. Several months ago..shoot, it may have even been a year ago..I shared a post about how I get healthy meals on the table without planning. As a … [Read more...]
Homemade Gummy Bears with Juice and Gelatin
Just three basic ingredients make up this super simple Homemade Gummy Bears Recipe. With a few optional add-ins, they pack a powerful immune boosting punch, as well. Homemade gummy bears are a fun treat to make for the kiddos, that aren't bad for them. The best part is they can be customized with superfood ingredients to actually tip the scale onto the healthy side. Now this recipe isn't super practical, and I definitely don't have homemade gummy bears around all the time. I just wanted … [Read more...]
Date Sweetened Ice Cream
This homemade date sweetened ice cream is as creamy and delicious as unhealthy, sugar laden, store bought ice cream. Step into the farmhouse to see how we make it. I had to tinker around with the idea of ice cream sweetened only with dates before it became the creamy, delicious, seriously as good as ice cream with sugar, recipe that it is today. The first time I tried it I threw dates straight out of the pantry into the blender with the other ingredients. It's not hard to imagine what … [Read more...]
My Top Ten Kitchen Essentials for a Traditional Foods Kitchen
To cook real food daily, you're going to need a few key items. Here are my top ten kitchen essentials for a traditional foods kitchen. Y'all know I am a lover of real food. Give me all the fresh herbs, grass-fed beef, fermented veggies and raw dairy. The quartz countertops in this old farmhouse kitchen never look complete without a bubbly bowl of sourdough, a day old mason jar of milk with the whey separating, and veggies fermenting in the corner. Some of the tasks of a traditional foods … [Read more...]
Easy Healthy Meal Ideas for Family
I share seven easy healthy meal ideas for family in this "What we eat in the farmhouse" winter edition. Last summer I shared a post called 5 Tips for Healthy Meals Every Night Without Planning. To sum it up, basically I talk about my inability to successfully implement meal planning, like all the Pinterest moms. I blame it on my personality type. I threw away the dry erase board, homemaking binder and recipes, and just started cooking real food. As a follow up to that post, I wanted to … [Read more...]
Healthy Peanut Butter Fudge
With Valentine's Day fast approaching, its nice to have a few healthy treats in the arsenal. The Hey, Crafty! girls show you how to make Healthy Peanut Butter Fudge with only whole ingredients, peanut butter, coconut oil and honey. So, I don't know if I have mentioned on my blog yet, but my nine and seven year old girls started a Youtube channel. We are mostly doing it as a homeschool project, to teach video production and editing. (That sounded so official, like I really know what I'm … [Read more...]
The Easiest Sourdough Discard Pizza Crust Recipe
Learn how to make this easy sourdough discard pizza crust. It only has four basic ingredients, no kneading or rising required. You really can't get much simpler than this. When I found out about this method for making sourdough pizza crust somewhere in internet land several years ago, you might say I felt a bit perturbed. You see, up until this point, my experience with homemade crust involved proofing, rising, kneading...Repeat. Repeat. Bake. I needed to plan the whole thing five … [Read more...]
How to Make Applesauce in the Instant Pot
I show you how to make applesauce in the instant pot in this simple tutorial. Plus grab a free printable label to make it look pretty. The Instant Pot is a staple in my kitchen. Normally I am not one to give up precious counter top real estate, but for something with as much versatility as a pressure cooker, I am willing to make an exception. The other day, after finding the 10th half eaten apple laying around the house, I put my beloved appliance to the task of making homemade … [Read more...]
How to Make Crispy Potatoes in a Cast Iron Skillet
Learn the secret for how to make crispy potatoes in a cast iron skillet. The simple ingredients are potatoes, coconut oil and salt. I have been using cast iron, and cooking potatoes, for many years. However, I haven't always known how to make crispy potatoes in a cast iron skillet. No, that took trial, error, more trial and more error. I tried cutting the potatoes super small. I tried leaving them in large chunks. Put the lid on. Took the lid off. I cooked them hot and cooked them on … [Read more...]
How To Cook A Pumpkin
Learn how to cook a pumpkin from scratch and the best pumpkin varieties for cooking. Follow this tutorial to learn four different ways of cooking pumpkin - from baking pumpkins to the Crock Pot and Instant Pot. This post was updated July 2019 I feel like most people treat pumpkin as a sweet treat in the fall, but I like to treat it as another in season vegetable. So we eat it a lot and often. We love using pumpkins in soups, stews, pasta sauces, and so much more. There are many … [Read more...]
The Best Instant Pot Bone Broth
Learn how to make the best bone broth in the instant pot with this simple tutorial. Bone broth is nourishing, gut healing and the perfect liquid, in which to simmer away vegetables and meat into a delicious homemade soup. It is known to be an effective immune booster, which is the reason mom reached for the chicken noodle soup when you were sick as a kid. Homemade bone broth is not liquid when made properly. Unfortunately, the liquid chicken broth you find in boxes on grocery … [Read more...]
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract
Learn how to make homemade vanilla with this very simple tutorial. Why Make Your Own Vanilla I love having homemade vanilla extract. It is very simple to make and works beautifully in so many of my recipes. Homemade vanilla extract has more flavor and depth than the imitation vanilla, that you find on the cheap in the grocery store. Real vanilla can be expensive, but it is worth the additional cost. When you make it at home, the taste is even more pure and delicious. You get every part … [Read more...]
Hearty And Healthy Potato Soup Recipe
Learn how to make this delicious and healthy potato soup recipe that is hearty and filling. Loaded with healthy ingredients this comforting soup is perfect for the cooler weather. I try to make a lot of soup in this old farmhouse. I like to serve it, because the whole family can get a lot of veggies, and homemade bone broth, in one convenient stockpot. It's a simple meal, and probably the healthiest I can think of. It's especially comforting in the cooler fall and winter months. Potato … [Read more...]
Homemade Kimchi
Learn how to make this homemade kimchi recipe that is not only super delicious, but also packed with gut healthy probiotics. I don’t know if you guys know this about me or not, but I tend to be a bit of a foodie. As I confessed in a recent post, I almost always make simple meals, but I love experimenting in the kitchen. I truly appreciate local, quality ingredients, and will regularly go out of my way for such. A twenty minute drive every week to pick up raw milk from a local … [Read more...]
5 Tips for Cooking from Scratch Every Night Without Meal Planning
Learn my 5 tips for having healthy meals every night without meal planning. Making 3 meals a day does not have to be complicated. In fact, it is super simple! So Many Food Options I've noticed that when people want to start cooking from scratch, they think they need elaborate meal plans with dry erase boards neatly filled in with three meals a day. [thrive_lead_lock id='13760']Hidden Content[/thrive_lead_lock] Baked blueberry pecan oatmeal for breakfast, Asian pesto curry for lunch and almond … [Read more...]