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My Best Tips For Using Garden Fresh Tomatoes
I thought I’d share a few simple tips with you for storing, cutting, peeling and deseeding tomatoes. These will come in handy when you are blessed with an abundance of garden fresh tomatoes (like we are right now). These tips will come in handy if you grow your own, or get a big basket of tomatoes from […]
Continue readingSpeed Up Your Grilling – 5 Tips For A Faster Meal
Grilling can sometimes be a bit of a process. From marinating your food, to waiting for the grill to heat up, and standing there watching and turning, turning and watching, it can be sort of tedious. But, only if you let it be. If there was a way to speed up the process, wouldn’t you […]
Continue readingCooking for a Crowd on a Tight Budget
A couple of days ago, I received a private Facebook message from a Hillbilly Housewife reader. She asked me for some suggestions on what she could cook for her church youth group on a tight budget. I gave her a few ideas, but knew that the HBHW community would come up with some things I […]
Continue readingTips for Grilling Moist Meats
This is a guest post by Christine Steendahl from AuthenticMoms.com Spring is here! One of the first things I think about when spring appears is “time to grill”! I love a grilled meal and we just don’t grill in the winter. I know you can, but something about heading outside in our Illinois sub-freezing temperatures […]
Continue reading3 Big Benefits of Homemade Cleaners
I’ve been hanging out with my friend Amber over the past few weeks and have been learning all kinds of neat tricks, recipes and ideas from her when it comes to all natural homemade cleaners. Amber teaches a lot of classes and workshops on this topic and has recently published a Kindle book with some […]
Continue readingThe Family Command Center – One Spot To Keep You Organized
I originally wrote this article for the February issue of the Homemaker’s Hutch digital magazine but wanted to share it with you here as well. As your family grows and the kids get older, it starts to get harder and harder to keep track of everything that’s going on. There are school functions, doctor’s appointments, […]
Continue readingHappy New Year – Resolutions and Word of the Year
It’s been a little while since my last full post here. I haven’t added anything new to the site since Christmas Eve. To be honest, I needed a bit of a break after the daily Advent Calendar posts. We enjoyed the holidays and the rest of winter break. This morning though, as we were getting […]
Continue readingAdvent Calendar Day 24 – My Gift To You
Merry Christmas from my family to yours. We’re all busy today getting everything ready for Christmas, so I’ll keep this brief. I wanted to share something special with you as this last Advent Calendar treat. It’s my Christmas gift to you. A little over a year ago, I retired of of my big cookbook collections. […]
Continue readingAdvent Calendar Day 23 – Breakfast Casseroles On Christmas Morning
How do you start your Christmas morning? We usually get up, make some coffee and stick a Breakfast casserole in the oven to bake while we open one or two presents. By the time breakfast is ready, we’re usually ready for a break and sit down to eat before getting back to reading cards and […]
Continue readingThings I wish I knew about Christmas when I was raising my children
The following was written by my friend Faydra. She has some great points about what’s truely important around Christmas. It isn’t the things we buy our kids or the expensive trips we take. True Christmas magic happens while liking a spoon of cookie dough or reading a favorite Christmas story… but I don’t want to […]
Continue readingAdvent Calendar Day 22 – Let’s Dip
I’ve gotta tell you… I’m getting excited about Christmas. A good chunk of the presents got wrapped yesterday and this morning I promised my daughter we could go to the store to get ingredients to make two different types of fudge. She’s busy right now combing through Pinterest to find two recipes she wants to […]
Continue readingAdvent Calendar Day 21 – A Little Healthy Fare
We’ve been making and eating Christmas cookies and fudge the past few days. And looking at my Christmas menu, we’re not exactly living healthy right now. Of course that’s ok, it’s the Holidays. I do plan to cook and eat a lot healthier starting a few days after Christmas and may try to sneak in […]
Continue readingAdvent Calendar Day 20 – Homemade Bread Warm From The Oven
We had one of my favorite simple dinners last night. I roasted a chicken and made a loaf of homemade bread. I got the last of the lettuce from the garden and dinner was done. And it was delicious. There’s just something about adding warm bread fresh from the oven to make any meal special. […]
Continue readingAdvent Calendar Day 19 – We All Scream For Ice Cream
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. When my daughter started kindergarten, she learned this from a friend and we ended up hearing constantly for months. Whenever we asked her what she wanted to for snack, dinner, breakfast , you name it … we got the above… screamed out loud of course. […]
Continue readingAdvent Calendar Day 18 – Homemade Jelly or Jam
It’s getting down to the wire. In yesterday’s newsletter I mentioned next Wednesday was the day before Christmas Eve… and was promptly corrected that next Wednesday IS Christmas Eve – Yikes… I somehow thought I had an extra day to get things done. All the shopping is done (except for some last minute grocery stuff) […]
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