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Home Canned Salsa with Lime Juice

Have I mentioned I’m married to a native Texan? Back in Texas, salsa is practically it’s own food group. And boy howdy, do we go through a lot of the stuff.

Roasted Tomato Sauce for Canning or Freezing

It’s tomato season, y’all! I’m dropping in from a long summer break to share a few of my favorite tomato canning recipes. Stay tuned over the next week or so for a few more recipes, including salsa and tomato soup. Here’s to that last great tomato harvest of the year–may yours be a bumper crop! …

Nut-Free Pesto

Are you growing basil? Is it going crazy right about now? Our basil is growing like gang busters! The other day I asked Mr. Native Texan to pick some basil for a canning recipe, but I neglected to specify the amount. Oops. You know what happened, right?

How to Keep Homemade Salad Dressing from Separating

Check out How to Get Kids to Eat Salad for a list of my favorite salad ingredients and an inexpensive tool that has revolutionized my salad game. Easy {and delicious} Homemade Dressing For a while now, I’ve been making my own salad dressing from quality olive oil and my favorite balsamic vinegar. Sometimes I add…

Homemade Crockpot Ketchup

This ketchup is one of the ingredients in Last Minute Meatballs, a new favorite around the Yankee Homestead. We actually went without ketchup for many months, using guacamole, hummus and mustards when we needed a condiment for dipping or spreading. When I came across this recipe, I just had to try it!

World’s Easiest Guacamole

I love guacamole. Until Little Brother arrived on the scene, I was, alas, the only avocado-lover at the Yankee Homestead. So sad. I made guacamole only for guests, because I was incapable of eating a whole batch on my own. Now I can whip up a small batch and even Mr. Native Texan will pitch in and…

Raw Cranberry Sauce (and more)

I love Elana’s Pantry! I do NOT love agave (more on that another time), which is heavily employed in many of her recipes. Her recipes are a great springboard, however, although some recipes-with-agave are harder to adapt than others. We’ve used her recipe for Raw Cranberry Sauce for several major holiday meals now and really…