I love baking with sourdough! These easy homemade sourdough donuts have been such a fun treat to make for my family! I have been wanting to make sourdough donuts for quite awhile now, but they seemed intimidating. Finally I searched online for some recipes online and found a few to try. After trying some, tweeking …
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Summer Berry Pie Recipe with Lattice Crust
Summer is filled with abundant fruit! One of my favorite ways to use it is in this summer berry pie recipe! Any combination of berries can be used in this pie- strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, huckleberries, blackberries. Berry Filling This pie is filled with sweet, tangy berries and has a rich buttery crust! For my pie …
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Huckleberry Ice Cream Recipe
Summer is the perfect time for ice cream and we live where the wild huckleberries grow abuntantly in the summer. Combine them both and you have this perfect huckleberry ice cream recipe! Picking Huckleberries Last week we took two trips up the mountain behind our home to pick these delectable little wild berries! It is …
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How to Make Vanilla Cardamom Cold Brew Coffee
I love a rich and creamy cold drink on a hot afternoon. What could be better than this delicious Vanilla Cardamom Cold Brew Coffee. This is such an easy recipe to make and can be stored in the fridge for a delicious and refreshing treat anytime! Like A Coffee Shop Treat I used to love …
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How to Create a Homeschool Mom Summer Routine
Summer is a glorious time for relaxing and creating fun memories with your family! However as a homeschool mom I still need to have some kind of summer routine in order to stay sane and also get prepared for the schoolyear starting in the fall. As I wrote in a previous post I like to …
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Cherry Flan Recipe (Clafoutis aux Cerises)
Every July we head to our local U-pick orchard for juicy, sweet cherries. We pick cherries to freeze, can, dry, and make into jam for enjoying the whole year. But we always keep enough out fresh to make into this delicious cherry flan recipe! Cherry Picking A trip to pick cherries is one of the …
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An Easy Serviceberry Jelly Recipe
The Serviceberry trees are loaded this year! And they are larger a juicier than many years. We have been over at the new homestead working on the house and there is a beautiful Serviceberry shrub near the well. The children were excited to pick the berries and try to make a Serviceberry jelly recipe! This …
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15 Ideas For a Magical, Old Fashioned Summer
Do you remember long summer days as a child? The freedom to play and explore without a care in the world. This is the kind of magical summer that I want to create for my children! For me the perfect magical summer is a balance of long, lazy, unstructured days interspersed with a few fun …
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Benefits of Calendula: How to Grow and Use
Calendula is a cheery orange flower that almost grows wild once you have it established in your garden. It is easy to grow and there are also many benefits of Calendula! Benefits of Calendula Calendula has been traditionally used for skin irritations. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties that make it excellent for rashes and …
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Simple Ways to Have a Charlotte Mason Summer
Summer has officially arrived! We have been finished with our school for a couple of weeks now and are ready to relax and enjoy our summer. With the more relaxed routine we still want to focus on the true, good, and beautiful to have a Charlotte Mason style summer. We do not school year round, …
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Delighting in Winter
Winter can feel long and sometimes dreary. Whether there are bitter cold temperatures and piles of snow, or day after day of grey fog and drizzly wetness, the winter days can stretch long before us. We often feel unmotivated and less produtive. Rather than leaning into the natural rhythm of darker, slower days we often …
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Easy Overnight Sourdough Scones
Scones are a fun and simple way to make any day feel special! These easy sourdough scones have been adapted from a regular scone recipe that I recieved from a neighbor years ago. The first time I ever hade a scone was at a tea party that a lovely neighbor hosted when I was a …
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Sourdough Pumpkin Brioche Rolls
Every Thanksgiving we get together with my husbands family for a long weekend. It is a wonderful time of fellowship and good food. We all bring favorite foods to contribute to the main meal as well as breakfasts and lunches. These sourdough pumpkin brioche cinnamon rolls have been a special breakfast treat for many years …
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How to Make Easy Chicken Stock From Scratch
Stock is one of the most nutritions and simple staples that can be made at home. Chicken stock is the easiest and most convenient stock to make. During the fall and winter months I roast a whole chicken about once a week and then make stock with the carcass. Making chicken stock is one of …
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How to Blend Your Own Loose Leaf Tea
As we head into the fall and winter season what could be cozier than tea?! Blending your own loose leaf tea can be very satisfying and enjoyable. There are so many options and flavors to experiment with. Types of Loose Leaf Tea There are several different types of blends you can make including black tea, …
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