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Home Cooked Recipes

Whether you are searching for fast and easy weeknight meals, impressive appetizers, or delightful desserts, our recipes will satisfy your culinary cravings. We offer simple recipes to bring out the natural flavor of the harvest bounty, comforting dishes made with wholesome ingredients, traditional family recipes, and guidance for replacing processed foods in your kitchen.

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A slight twist from your regular pesto, this recipe combines garlic scapes with lemon balm for an early garden fresh variation. Spoon this garlic scape lemon balm pesto on pasta, seafood, and even sandwiches.

Garlic Scape Lemon Balm Pesto

You can't go wrong with chili. Since the chili simmers in the slow cooker all day, it is perfect for a weeknight meal.

Easy Slow Cooker Chili

Skip the store bought bottles and shake up your own homemade Italian salad dressing using fresh ingredients. This Italian salad dressing tastes great on leafy salad, adds a zesty zing to pasta salad, and is a delicious marinade for grilled meats.

Mason Jar Italian Salad Dressing Recipe

Chicken stock is a great pantry staple to have on hand for making soups, gravies, stews, and stir-fry. Here are three methods for making great homemade chicken stock, including stovetop, slow cooker, and Instant Pot pressure cooker.

How to Make Chicken Stock from Scratch

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Spiced Apple Jelly Recipe (No Added Pectin)

These Cocktail Meatballs with Cherry Barbecue Sauce are slightly sweet with a little bit of smoky heat kick you will love. An easy appetizer that is perfect for parties, game day, and potluck meals.

Cocktail Meatballs with Cherry BBQ Sauce

This Italian Salsa Cruda is a great way to enjoy ripe summer tomatoes, sweet bell peppers, and fresh Italian herbs. It is perfect for bruschetta, tossed with pasta, or spooned over grilled meat or fish.

Italian Salsa Cruda

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Granny’s Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe

This smoky, rich flavored cherry barbecue sauce can be slathered on virtually any type of meat, including chicken, pork, and beef.

Cherry Barbecue Sauce Recipe

These mini slider buns make fantastic appetizer sandwiches, such as mini burgers, pulled pork sandwiches, and even breakfast sandwiches. See how to bake your own slider buns from scratch.

Homemade Mini Slider Buns

This simple roasted salsa verde recipe is easy to make. Roasting the vegetables adds a delicious smoky flavor and mellows the acidity of the tomatillos. Enjoy this tomatillo salsa with your favorite Mexican dishes.

Roasted Salsa Verde

This is a super easy crockpot white bean chicken chili recipe that is filled with flavor. In this recipe, chicken is seasoned with Mexican spices, combined with white beans, onions, garlic, green chilies, and slow cooked all day. The flavors mingle into a delicious mild chili.

Crockpot White Bean Chicken Chili

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