Vegan Cheese Sauce Recipes

Vegan Cheese Sauce Recipes

I never knew there was such a thing as vegan cheese. When we were at the 4th annual Xscapers annual bash they had a macaroni and cheese cook-off. One table had dairy free options and that’s where I learned that cheese sauce can be made out of potatoes, squash and cashews. While I wouldn’t say […]

New Food Friday

New Food Friday

Years ago with our older kids and the kids at Harmony’s old childcare, Kids by Nature, we had weird food Wednesday. Each Wednesday when the afterschool kids would show up, we’d try something new. None of our younger kids were around for that so we decided to recreate it with New Food Friday. Our boys […]

Chickpea flour

Chickpea and flour are not two words I ever thought would go together.  We first tried it just as an experiment, to see how it tastes.  Now it is common in our home to make everything with chickpea flour.  We eat chickpea flour waffles, pancakes, yeast bread, muffins, cookies, birthday cake, pizza crust, pie crust.  […]

Beans, Beans the magical fruit

Beans, Beans the magical fruit

Beans are amazing.  They are full of protein, fiber, nutrients and antioxidants.  They are so easy to make and are very inexpensive. Before we got our instant pot we would buy canned beans regularly.  It usually cost about $1 per can.  We would eat them almost daily.  We had tried making them from dried beans […]

Instant Pot Cheesecake

Instant Pot Cheesecake

Looking for a great desert idea to make in your Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker? Ingredients Crust: 8 full graham crackers 1/3 cup walnuts 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 4 tablespoons melted unsalted butter Batter: 16 ounces cream cheese, (at room temperature) 1/3 cup white granulated sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 large eggs (at room temperature) 1/3 cup heavy cream (at room temperature) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 1 […]

Instant Pot Yogurt

Instant Pot Yogurt

I love to cook and bake but I had never attempted yogurt. All my friends that raised goats would share their goat milk yogurt with me and I was always so impressed that they could make their own yogurt. I don’t know why yogurt seemed so intimidating. I baked my own bread from wheat I […]

Will it Waffle?

We tried putting everything we could think of in the waffle iron. Some turned out better than expected, like bread and a raw egg. Some weren’t as great as others, but none were a complete fail. Check out our video to see what happens when you put rice and beans, cookie dough, or cornmeal and […]

Marmalade

Cooking with kids doesn’t always have to turn out the way you’d expect. Half of the fun is in the experimentation. They will learn from it and have fun spending time in the kitchen. I think this is one of the grossest things we have made, but the kids disagree. We were traveling through an […]