Farm to Table recipes and Homemade Natural Living
Gingerbread, molasses, and all the spices that go along with it are some of my favorites flavors of the holidays. Today I’m sharing how to make the best chewy gingerbread cookies using essential oils. These cookies are hard on the outside but chewy on the inside, and make for a delicious and festive holiday treat.
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Learn how to make a homemade mocha that is naturally sweetened and topped with homemade whipped cream. This has quickly become our holiday favorite on weekends and well, almost every afternoon now a days.
This all natural homemade raspberry ice cream recipe is a frosty, creamy dessert that tastes like summer in a cup. Each spoonful is a refreshing taste of sour raspberry with cream and honey as a natural sweetener. I knew this was blog-worthy when my husband said he liked it better than store-bought ice cream. That’s a win for me!
Learn how to make homemade chocolate with this easy recipe. These chocolate hearts are naturally flavored with orange and salt, making each bite melt in your mouth.
Learn how to make sourdough pie crust that is buttery and flakey and perfect for your apple pie. This recipe took me several tries to perfect, because I wanted to make pies with our sourdough starter. We have gotten so good at this now that we throw just about any fruit in the dutch oven and get the pie crust ready!
Learn how to make fresh blackberry pie for a sweet and sour, juicy dessert that is best topped with homemade whip. Ah, fall is here!
It was a quiet day on the homestead today and I finally got to cut all the apples up that we picked a few weekends ago. They don’t last as long as store-bought apples so you really have to cut them up and use them, or freeze them for later. I hope my family doesn’t get tired of apple pie, because this is one of my favorite recipes to make! Learn how to make this homemade apple pie recipe naturally sweetened with honey.
Learn how to make deliciously soft & chewy gluten free cookies with carob chips with this easy recipe. Carob chips are in the chocolate family, only they are packed full of healthy nutrients and they are lower in sugar and have no caffeine. A tasty and healthier version of regular chocolate chips, carob has been a family favorite since I was a little girl!
John’s mom’s side of the family is straight from Italy, and apparently pizzelles are a staple in their household. Pizzelles are basically thin little waffle-like cookies that are served as desserts, appetizers, or in our case just a healthy snack. And because you know I love using my sourdough starter, I decided to make a recipe for sourdough pizzelles that were all natural and sweetened only with maple sugar. Oh, the beauty of sourdough!
We’re getting in the Christmas spirit over here and every year I make sweet chewy lemon bars for Christmas morning breakfast. I love that these are so sweet and lemon-y, as they use lemon zest and a whole cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice! Make these lemon bars to enjoy on Christmas morning and your family will be so pleased!
For past several years I have made these lemon bars for Christmas morning. In fact, these were one of the first recipes I learned how to make way back in the day. Something about the taste of lemon in the morning makes these sure taste healthy and refreshing, even if they do have sugar in them! But we like to eat these on Christmas morning alongside a hearty egg, sausage, and cheese casserole dish, so that we can enjoy opening presents all morning long. If you like lemons and you like dessert for breakfast, you will love these!
