Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted.  Do any of my old followers still even read my blog?  I've just been so busy wit...

Our pear trees are producing a fair amount of decent fruit this year.  I'm still trying to figure out all the varieties that we have.  W...

Week #4 of Nourished Kitchen's Preserving Summer's Bounty Challenge focused on preserving in alcohol. Alcohol is naturally antimic...

I have been on a fruit roll making spree this summer. Making fruit rolls is seriously so easy and they're quite good for you (unlike th...

I made a jello poke cake back in May. I think it must have been for the Mother's Day family party with Kevin's family or maybe when ...

I made this quite a few weeks ago now... I'm just still very behind on posting. Hopefully I'll actually catch up one day. :) Any...

I made this fruit dessert salad for Carson's birthday party today. This is another AllRecipes recipe. This is more like a dessert w...

I found this recipe for fruit salad on AllRecipes awhile back and decided to try it out for Carson's birthday party with my in-laws and...

I found this recipe on AllRecipes and wanted to try it out for our family party to celebrate my FIL's birthday yesterday. It was ver...

I made this jello salad from AllRecipes for our New Years Day dinner tomorrow night. Our friends Ben, Kati, and their dog Enzo will be co...

I canned peaches last year and said I'd probably never do it again until we had our own peach tree to make it a little more economical...

I've got a lot of catching up to do with posts from last week. First up, a fresh peach and blueberry cobbler. I found a recipe on Re...

I tried a recipe from RecipeZaar for Oatmeal Apple Butter Bars. I wanted to find a way to use up some more of the apple butter I canned ...

Guess what I found at the Grand Blanc farmers' market on Sunday?? Tart cherries!! Woohoo!! :) I washed and pitted them on Sunday night...

While it may seem a bit early to already be thinking of next year's harvest... I'm already thinking ahead. What can I say, other tha...

I decided to make a cherry mousse recipe I found on RecipeZaar for dessert to go along with our cherry chicken lettuce wraps. This was su...

Well, guess what I found at the farmers market yesterday? Cherries!! And they're actually not Traverse City cherries - which I would...

I decided to make some strawberry rhubarb preserves after my visit to the Grand Blanc Farmers Market this morning (we were in GB, so just ...

This morning I made and canned a batch of strawberry syrup using a recipe that I found on one of the canning boards I visit. I had been lo...

I came across a recipe for double berry scones on the Eggs on Sunday blog and thought they looked and sounded so tasty. When I saw they ...