Recipes

Egg-n-Bacon Breakfast Muffins

Egg-n-Bacon Breakfast Muffins

These egg-n-bacon breakfast muffins make the perfect grab-n-go breakfast.

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How to Eat Liver Without Tasting It

Update: How to Eat Liver (without tasting it), plus Liverwurst Q&A

Today, I bring you an update on The Plan: How to Eat Liver Without Tasting It, as well as answers to one reader’s questions about liverwurst.

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White Chicken Chili | Roots & Boots

Paleo-Friendly White Chicken Chili

This White Chicken Chili was a huge hit with my entire family from the first time I served it.

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Chocolate Nut Bars no bake

Chocolate Nut Protein Bars

  Oh my goodness, these bars are so good, and so easy to make!  They are perfect as dessert, they pack very well for meals or treats on-the-go, and–packed full of protein–they make an excellent snack for pregnant and nursing mothers.

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Gingerbread Cutout Cookies

Gingerbread Cutout Cookies

One of our Christmas Countdown activities every year is {of course} baking Christmas cookies.  This year, the boys really wanted to make gingerbread cookies.  So we used this trusty recipe, and they turned out great!

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Favorite Fall Recipes

Favorite Fall Recipes {gluten-free}

Slow Cooker Season I use my crock pot pretty heavily all year long, but fall always seems to kick off the slow cooker season.  Don’t you agree? Here are a few favorite recipes just right for colder weather, many of them made in the crock pot…

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pear crisp

Pear Crisp

  Recently, we enjoyed a morning of pear-picking with some of our favorite friends.  The kids had a blast, and picked way too many pears for us to eat in a reasonable time frame. So I tracked down this recipe from Elana Amsterdam of Elana’s Pantry, and tweaked it just a bit.  It turned out…

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Spaghetti Squash

The Secret to Cutting Spaghetti Squash

One of my absolute favorite fall and winter dishes is this Ragu Meat Sauce.  We serve it over roasted spaghetti squash, because it allows us to avoid pasta and because it tastes amazing. So by now, I’ve cut open my fair share of those hard-as-bricks, yellow, oblong vegetables.  At first, the task seemed nearly impossible.…

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Chicken Tortilla Soup | Roots & Boots

Chicken Tortilla Soup {Crockpot}

Tortilla soup can be found on just about every restaurant menu back in the Lonestar State, which is where I learned to love it.  It’s one of our very favorite soups, and below is our favorite version.

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Quinoa

How to Soak Quinoa

Recently, I mentioned my efforts to incorporate more quinoa in our diets here at the Yankee Homestead, for a variety of reasons. Why Eat Quinoa? Grain-free–There is much controversy over the consumption of grains.  Quinoa is actually a seed, but sort of behaves like a grain, making it a perfect substitute for rice. Nutritious–Quinoa is…

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