Culinary Creations | The Kinnard Homestead

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 space for all the food. ...

By Amy Kinnard

Homemade Yogurt

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 plain yogurt to be further changed...

By Amy Kinnard

Homemade Flour Tortillas

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 a pre-made package at the grocery...

By Amy Kinnard

Canning Dried Beans

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 easy it is to complete and...

By Amy Kinnard

Canning Potatoes

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 kitchen, that is. I found mine...

By Amy Kinnard

Banana Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins

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

By Amy Kinnard

Gluten-free Peanut Butter Oatmeal Rounds

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...

By Amy Kinnard

Canning Homemade Tomato Soup

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 call went out to churches and...

By Amy Kinnard

Soaked Chocolate Chip Whole-Wheat Pancakes

The boys know that when I am going to bake whole-wheat bread the next day, it means they are most likely going to get some chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. It's just easier to do it this way because I only have to...

By Amy Kinnard