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Spicy Tomato Soup (In my DASH blender!)

It's been a while since I've made a post...sorry! While I have the best of intentions life tends to get in the way. Anyhoo, while outside today I noticed that I had several red tomatoes that needed to be picked and when I came inside of the house realized that my cherry tomatoes needed picking as well (I guess I have been out of it lately)! Since the tomatoes were a bit over-ripe I decided[...]

Homemade Brown Sugar

A couple of weeks ago I was making pancake syrup for some really sweet college kids and realized that I didn't have enough brown sugar to make as much as I wanted them to have. I went ahead and gave them partial bottles and promised them a refill once their bottles were empty. In the meantime I started thinking...there has to be a way to make brown sugar from home. After a few minutes[...]

Homemade Candy Bars!!!

   Sooo, I am doing this blogpost from my ipad and I can't find the stupid registered trademark symbol so I won't type the name of the candy bar. However, I can tell you that it s a copycat version of a candy bar whose name means the same as a "small laugh" :). I got the recipe from pintrest which was actually a link to a sugar manufacturer's website (hint: if you haven't gues[...]

Homemade Pasta!

I bought a pasta roller many months ago with the grand intention of making homemade pasta. Couple that with my growing desire to know what is in my family's food and you've got the perfect storm for actually getting my butt in gear and making it from scratch!Let me say, the recipe that I ended up using couldn't have been easier! I used the one from one of my favorite books "Make the Brea[...]