an orange pumpkin sitting on top of a log
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Healthy Ways to Enjoy Eating Pumpkin this Fall

If any one food comes to mind when fall begins, it is probable pumpkin. This is the time of year when it is all about pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin cheesecake, and pumpkin cookies. While these are delicious treats, I think we all try to aim for balance with our health. Here you will find some…

red, orange, yellow mini peppers stuffed with bacon and cheese laying in a row on a white platter
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3 Cheese and Bacon Stuffed Mini Sweet Peppers Appetizer Recipe

Need a last minute summer appetizer using real food ingredients from your garden and farm or farmers market? This 3 cheese and bacon stuffed mini sweet pepper recipe is so versatile and comes together easily in under 15 minutes, but looks and tastes like it took a lot longer. Let’s get right into it, shall…

jars filled with different canned fruits like raspberries and peaches
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Food Canning Basics for the Homestead

A large part of gardening and homesteading, is figuring out how to preserve all the food harvested from the garden to then be enjoyed all year round. One of the ways to preserve food is canning it. Are you new to the idea of canning and preserving? Are you interested in learning the very basics…

When scooping your pumpkins to make Jack o lanterns, save those seeds and make these sweet cinnamon pumpkin seeds
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Easy Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin Seeds

This year, when making your Halloween Jack o’ lanterns, save the seeds and make easy sweet cinnamon pumpkin seeds! In this article, I’ll explain how you can separate the seeds from the goo and make a sweet snack. That’s right, you might have to get your hands a little gooey! Did you know that pumpkin…

Homemade Spicy Peach Salsa – Recipe
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Homemade Spicy Peach Salsa – Recipe

This spicy peach salsa is absolutely gorgeous! The combination of colors creates a beautiful presentation, while the delicious blend of sweet and spicy flavors makes it a wonderful addition to simply prepared fish, chicken or pork dishes. Especially good when accompanying meats grilled on the bbq and delicious to pack up for a picnic or…

Yummm. This sauce is good on anything from pork chops to icecream!
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Harvest Recipes ~ Spiced Plum Sauce

In the fall, when fruit trees like plums and apples are plentiful, I am always looking for really good recipes to preserve the abundance of the harvest. If you have a dark plum or I’ve heard them being called an Italian plum tree know someone who does, this is a really fantastic sauce to make…

Favorite Cookbooks
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My Top 5 Favorite Cookbooks

If you are looking for some new favourite cookbooks to help you get inspired to cook good wholesome, nutritious, delicious food then here are my current top 5 favourite cookbooks. These cookbooks have inspired me in many ways and have helped to know what to cook with fresh ingredients from our gardens as well as…

home-baked apple crisp in a bowl with some vanilla ice cream on top with the pan of leftover crisp beside it. All sitting on a blue and white paisley napkin
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Healthy and Home-Baked Cinnamon Apple Crisp – Recipe

One of my absolute favourite things to bake in the fall is Apple Crisp. My family loves to eat for dessert with a dollop of vanilla ice cream or even better, for breakfast with some milk or even for an after school snack. With this healthy version of home-baked cinnamon apple crisp, I have no…

Yellow tomato soup
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Roasted Yellow Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons Recipe

Looking for a yummy soup to use up all those tomatoes? This is the perfect harvest soup to use up delicious fresh tomatoes. With garden-fresh tomatoes in abundant supply, summer and fall are the perfect times to enjoy this quick and easy roasted yellow tomato soup. This recipe is versatile enough to be enjoyed on…

7 Ways to Use Hard Boiled Eggs
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7 Ways to Use Hard Boiled Eggs

Easter is right around the corner and you’re probably already thinking about hard boiled eggs to hide or decorate. The problem many families face after Easter is what to do with all of them. Our family likes to eat them for Easter Sunday breakfast with some ham or bacon and some toast or Easy Pan-Fried Breakfast…