*DIY Solutions & Homemade Helpers* Doing It Better For Less!
Below you'll find our collection of homemade recipes that you can easily make for you and your family.
If you start to take the time to read labels of prepared food, you'll soon realize that there is often more unnatural ingredients than natural and you can certainly do better by preparing your food from scratch.
Not only will homemade meals be healthier for you without all those unnecessary additives, but it will in the long run be much cheaper.
Sure you can buy all natural prepared food, but it typically is expensive and we would still say not as tasty as a good ol' fashioned homemade meal.
I first made a Dutch baby pancake with peaches in the skillet, but decided I liked to cook a plain Dutch baby and then add our peach preserves when serving. This way the crispy integrity of the pancake is held up and not softened by the peaches.
A Dutch baby pancake, or sometimes called a German or [Read more…]
It only made sense to make some cast iron skillet peach cobbler and peach crisp when our two peach trees produced a bumper crop of ripe, juicy fruit this year. Of course you can substitute any fruit you like for these recipes such as apple, cherry, blackberry or [Read more…]
Because I love cheesecake, it only makes sense to make homemade cheesecake ice cream. I love having chunky ice cream with bits and pieces of yummy mix-ins, so it also only made sense to add buttery-sweet, soft and chewy graham cracker crust morsels to [Read more…]
Homemade magic shell is another one of those ridiculously easy recipes that can be made for less cost and better flavor than the store-bought brands. You just need two ingredients: chocolate chips and [Read more…]
I love the marriage of chocolate and peanut butter. One of my favorite treats has been Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but my deal now is that if I want dessert I have to make it from scratch. So I decided to make no-bake chocolate peanut butter bars (love no-bake recipes in the summertime) that are similar in taste to [Read more…]
Here are some of our favorite homemade ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbet recipes we have tried using the Cuisinart ICE-21 Ice Cream Maker (our review).
You can of course flavor this vanilla base anyway you like. We have made strawberry, [Read more…]
Homemade refrigerator pickles are one of the easiest and fastest homemade food recipes you can make. Did you know that most of the store-bought pickles on your local grocery store shelf have polysorbate 80, yellow #5 and/or [Read more…]
We finally decided to get an ice cream maker because of a combination of our favorite Breyers turning into un-natural ice cream and the high cost of premium all-natural ice cream brands. We now make our own ice cream exactly [Read more…]
The “Yankees-Don’t-Know-About-Snow-Cream” Paradox
What is snow cream? Snow cream is simply homemade ice cream made from snow.
As a kid growing up in North Carolina, we had snow cream every time it snowed. It didn’t snow often, so it was a real treat. For the last 20 years, I have lived in an area that gets plenty of snow, but I completely forgot about making snow cream. I have never met a [Read more…]
You can make mayonnaise with a food processor in just minutes! Another easy-peasy recipe!
Making your own mayonnaise is one of the easiest homemade recipe swap-outs for store-bought you can do.
You save money by making it yourself and know exactly what’s in it. The last time I went to the grocery store to buy some mayo [Read more…]
