August Theme: The Prepared Home
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There’s a shelf in my pantry that makes me stop every single time I walk past it. Rows of jars, little jewel-toned jars of summer all lined up just waiting to be cracked open come winter (if we can wait that long). Today I’m covering all the basics of canning so you can get started….
My kitchen counter is covered in canning jars right now. Not the pretty, lined-up-in-rows kind you see on Pinterest — the kind that are still sticky from last week’s peaches, half of them missing lids, one stack threatening to topple every time I walk past. And if you’d told me a few years ago that…
This easy Berry Cherry Fruit Crisp comes together in one cast iron skillet with sweet, juicy fruit and a buttery oat topping that’s hard to resist. Yesterday I was out running errands and doing some antiquing for a video in Lexington, Kentucky, when my husband called and said that an old friend of his from…
“The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.” Proverbs 21:5
By August, I can always feel it coming — that little shift in the air, even before the heat actually breaks. The August Homemaker’s Notebook is here to help you meet it on purpose instead of getting caught off guard. Is your home ready for what’s coming next, or is fall going to sneak up…
Three ingredients. A few minutes of your morning. And a biscuit so good it’ll make you wonder why you ever bought them frozen. Do you remember the last time you had a really good homemade biscuit — the kind that is soft as a pillow with a perfectly crisp, buttery crust? I raised my family…
If you grew up in the country like I did, you know there’s nothing better than a homegrown tomato in the middle of summer. Eat them straight off the vine, slice them up to serve fresh alongside your Sunday dinner, or add some sweet cherry tomatoes to your pasta salad for lunch – or my…
There are many benefits to being a stay-at-home mom. It’s not always an easy decision and not always possible for every family to make that decision, but I wanted to share a few reasons to be a stay-at-home mom for those of you who may be considering it – or simply to affirm those of…
Most families intend to save what’s left over at the end of the month, but the reality for most folks is that there’s never anything left over. And before you think people just don’t have the discipline, it’s really more of a systems problem. You see, money that’s not intentionally assigned to savings before it’s…
Do you ever wonder what our grandmothers knew that we don’t? I just know that at some point a few decades ago, they decided that home economics, family consumer sciences, and consumer math were no longer going to be taught in our schools. So now we have entire generations of women who don’t really have…