Food

Want some Starbuck’s Pumpkin Scones without standing in line? Here’s the recipe! Perfect for a cold fall morning, these pumpkin scones are so moist and flavorful you’ll be wanting to make them year round. Do you love the aromas of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger? While the scones were baking, the smell coming from the [...]

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Written by contributor Stephanie Langford of Keeper of the Home. When I first became a wife over 8 years ago, I was a disaster in the kitchen. I hardly knew how to make anything from scratch. I cooked chicken until it was rubbery out of fear of undercooking it. I routinely burned half of the things that [...]

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Have you heard about Azure Standard?      Azure is a company that specialize in natural, organic, earth-friendly foods and products and are located in  Dufur, Oregon. They are family owned and operated and serve over 40,000 customers each month. Their family farm consists of over 4000 acres and they go far beyond organic practices [...]

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This family?  We are a troupe of chili lovers. We are also a troupe of 4:45pm meltdown-ers. And so one evening, in a clumsy, yet brilliant attempt to balance these two opposing forces in our family, I took a significant shortcut during dinner prep… rather than spending up to fifteen minutes chopping all of these [...]

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Pumpkin Bread…

by Jennifer on October 25, 2011 in Food

Pumpkins are simply delightful. At our house it wouldn’t be fall without something pumpkiny cooking in the kitchen. This pumpkin bread is so yummy & moist… a perfect treat for autumn. ______________________________________________ Delicious Pumpkin Bread 3 cups sugar 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp. salt 1tsp. baking powder 2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. cinnamon [...]

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Providing food to our families that is both nutritious and satisfying is such a challenge, but it can be done! Teaching our daughters (and sons) about ingredients and their health-promoting benefits will equip them with the knowledge and experience they will need to help their future families. What are simple ways in which we can [...]

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I know that learning to do canning is a goal for many women, and yet those with young children are particularly apprehensive to give it a try. The thought of working long hours in the kitchen, with scalding hot water, glass jars, and valuable food that you don’t want to waste can make it seem [...]

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One of the areas that I have needed to grow in wisdom has been our diet. For most of our lives our family has eaten a typical Standard American Diet. When we saw our parents’ health decline several years ago, we made a few changes, mainly by making our own whole-wheat bread from freshly ground [...]

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