How do we cook from scratch without spending all day in the kitchen? Here’s my slow living realist approach to meal planning, pantry stocking, and feeding a family without burnout.
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A Cozy Sourdough Cinnamon Bundt Cake for El Día de los Reyes
Bilingual Children’s Picture Book Recommendations *This blog post may contain affiliate links* This year I’m getting REAL specific and niche with my blog. My goal is to combine all parts of me and share them with you all. I am:• 1 part homeschool mom• 1 part bilingual Spanish language nerd• 1 part teacher heart• 1…
Honey-Sweetened Strawberry Blackberry Galette (with Cardamom)
A rustic, honey-sweetened strawberry and blackberry galette with a hint of cardamom, wrapped in a buttery crust and topped with homemade vanilla sugar.
Homemade Vanilla Sugar Recipe (+ Where to Buy It Ready-Made)
Learn how to make easy homemade vanilla sugar using leftover vanilla beans—perfect for coffee, baking, and gifting. I’m sharing my favorite method using raw sugar, plus a tip on what to do with those vanilla pods. Don’t feel like making it? You can also grab a jar of my small-batch vanilla sugar!
Cranberry Bread (or muffins) – with Freshly Milled Wheat and Sourdough
I’m working on a book list for books for each holiday, and since we’re currently in the midst of Thanksgiving I figured I’d share at least one of our favorites right now! We love Cranberry Thanksgiving (and all the other cranberry holidays!) and every year we make grandmas secret recipe found in the back of…
Sourdough Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies with Fresh Milled Flour
*this post may contain affiliate links* I’m not sure if you’ve tried my sourdough fresh milled cookie recipe, but it’s a staple in this household. However, with the change in weather and the abundance of roasted pumpkin I have in my freezer, I decided to try and pumpkinify my recipe. And it worked!! Of course…
Fresh Milled Sourdough Banana Bread
*this post may contain affiliate links*We all know how popular banana bread is. I mean, surely we’ve all see that reel “dude I got some banana bread at work today dude”. Well I wonder what he would think if he had THIS banana bread. I fermented at 48 hours but 24 is plenty! It adds such…
Fresh Milled Sourdough Pie Crust
*this post may contain affiliate links* About 2 years ago I set out to can some triple berry pie filling. It was quite a lot of work to source everything locally. We had to get 30 quarts of strawberries, 25 pints of black raspberries and go pick 15 pounds of blueberries. Of course I didn’t…
Fresh Milled Muffins (with many variations!)
*this post may contain affiliate links*I’ve been doing a little bit of a self challenge these past few weeks- of only eating bread products that are with 100% whole grain (aka fresh milled). The flour is completely unsifted, so you take the whole wheat berry and then you grind it into a flour. I have…
What To Do When Your Bread Dough Doesn’t Turn Out Right?
*this post may contain affiliate links*I’ve been baking sourdough since 2019. Yes, I am a COVID sourdough baker. But guess what? WE’RE STILL HERE BAKING THAT DOUGH! Maybe just not posting as much since now our lives are back to normal. All of that to say, my dough has flopped many a times. It happens…