I have been on a quest to find the perfect homemade vanilla cake recipe to match the Hershey’s “Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate Cake”. When it comes to moist, melt-in-your-mouth texture, no recipe can come close to Hershey’s in my humble opinion. (For those who have... read more
Our friends at Fishnet Ministry ran into a huge problem recently. They received two shipments of chicken days apart from each other adding up to a total of 63,000 pounds of frozen meat. The problem for Fishnet was that they didn’t have the freezer... read more
If you own a slow cooker and happen to have some plain yogurt hiding in the back of your fridge along with some milk, you’re in luck! You can take the dwindling remains of your yogurt and multiply it into a fresh batch of... read more
Whether you’re a taco fan, enchilada lover, or breakfast burrito guru, homemade tortillas are the best way to enjoy your favorites and save a little extra in your pocket book at the same time. Or simply make them because you forgot to pick up... read more
With two bags (4 pounds) of free red beans given to me, my choices were to either let them sit in the back of my pantry collecting dust or can them for quick meal additions. The greatest thing about canning dried beans is how... read more
I knew purchasing a pressure canner would one day pay off, and it truly has. Slowly but surely I have been adding more and more different foods to can all thanks to this convenient kitchen tool….after I overcame my fear of blowing up the... read more
Until very recently we’ve been a one-vehicle family. (Que shocked gasps from the audience..) Having only one vehicle meant we saved money – gas, insurance, maintenance, no spur-of-the-moment shopping sprees – you get the idea. However, the biggest downside was that it made getting... read more
In my quest to find a GF banana bread recipe so I could use up all the over-ripe bananas that were quickly morphing into some kind of hideous monstrosity inside the fruit bowl, I found this. The original recipe was for a Buttermilk Banana... read more
So basically I’ve been doing some major experimenting inside my kitchen lately trying to figure out how this whole “gluten-free” baking works. So many of the recipes I find online have a long list of ingredients I don’t have in my pantry and really... read more
Got a call yesterday afternoon from my sister asking if I needed any more tomatoes for my canning. Turns out the Fishnet Ministries located in Jacksonville had received a shipment of 80,000 pounds of Roma tomatoes and had no way of refrigerating them. A... read more
