Homesteading, Homeschooling & Homemaking
Simple and delicious Homemade Lemon Curd!
I’ve often seen recipes that called for lemon curd, but it always sounded like lemon curd was something fancy and difficult to make. It turns out it’s extremely simple to make homemade lemon curd!
If you can make a pudding, you can make homemade lemon curd. [Read more…]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream Cake with Brownie Crust is a delightful frozen birthday cake!
When Little Man was very small, we went to a birthday party where cake was served. After a bite or two, he asked me if he had to finish the cake. Of course I told him that he didn’t, and he happily dumped the rest in the trash.
He’s just never liked cake that much. I don’t care if he passes up on the cake at other people’s parties, but this poses a small problem when it comes to his birthday. However, we’ve found out that he loves ice cream cake, so that’s now what he asks for each year. [Read more…]
Berry Covered Pavlova is an elegant looking dessert, drenched in roasted strawberry vanilla bean sauce.
Many of you know that I recently attended the Everything Food Conference for bloggers. If you follow me on Instagram, I shared some of the food we got to cook as well as eat. It is a super fun conference to attend, and I learn so much there as well!
This year I participated in a hands on photography class with Kayley McCabe from The Kitchen McCabe. I just think that Kayley takes some of the most beautiful pictures of food I’ve ever seen! To top that off, she’s also really sweet!
Kayley brought a bunch of pavlova that she had made, to let us practice our food styling and food photography. I feel like food styling is where I really struggle. Some people make it look so natural, but figuring out what to put in my pictures, what backgrounds to use, where to place things, etc, is really hard for me! [Read more…]
Rhubarb Cupcakes are sweet and slightly sour.
When we moved into our homestead, the place had been empty for quite some time. The lawn was mostly dead, many of the trees and bushes looked dead as well. The only thing growing well was weeds.
It was October, and in the last few days before we signed papers to make it our own, Dan got antsy. He was ready to start working on making the place amazing. Despite the fact that we didn’t actually own it yet, Dan loaded up his lawnmower and started making a lawn out of the weeds.
Afterwards, I noticed that one of the “weeds” he had mowed to the ground was actually a rhubarb plant. While rhubarb isn’t my favorite food, it’s a nice change of pace each spring to have some. I had no idea if the rhubarb would come back, or if a year without water followed by being chopped to the ground might do it in. [Read more…]
Cranberry Orange Upside-down Cake is a fun variation on the traditional pineapple dessert.
Every variation of this upside down cake has been phenomenal. Lick the pan good. No joke! This cranberry orange upside-down cake is no exception. It is just the right amount of tangy and sweet to make you want more. And the cake just melts in your mouth. [Read more…]
