This delicious and aromatic homemade apple pie spice mix is perfect to complement apple pies and any other apple dessert recipe. It’s also a wonderful homemade gift idea. This post includes affiliate links Fall is the time of year to start baking cozy comfort food again – especially with seasonal pumpkin and apples. If you…
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Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipe
Save yourself time and money by making your own homemade pumpkin pie spice mix to use in all your delicious pumpkin recipes. Making your own is much cheaper than the tiny store-bought containers and most likely you already have all of the ingredients on hand. By the end of August it is clear and inevitable…
Homemade Cajun Seasoning
With this homemade Cajun Seasoning you’ll have your favorite Cajun dishes on the table in no time. Making this Cajun spice mix at home is economical and chances are you already have all the ingredients in your spice cabinet. Growing up in Germany I had never heard of Cajun cuisine. My first exposure to Cajun food was…
Best Healthy Popcorn Recipes
There are more creative and healthier ways than butter and salt to spice or sweeten up your favorite movie snack – popcorn! Try one of these Best Healthy Popcorn Recipes to snack on during your next movie night in. We are a family of snackers. Both Konrad and I are nightowls to some extend. That means…
Thai Iced Tea with Milk
This refreshing Thai Iced Tea with Milk is perfect to accompany a spicy Thai food dinner. This homemade recipe uses palm sugar and coconut milk in place of evaporated and sweetened condensed milk to make it dairy free and vegan. We spend the last 8 months living in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. The city is…
Easy Whole Grain Spelt Bread Recipe with Flax and Sesame
This nutritious Whole Grain Spelt Bread Recipe with flax and sesame seeds is super easy to make. It is also much better and more economical than store bought bread. I don’t make homemade bread often, but whenever I do bake my own loaves I wonder why that is. It always tastes delicious, I know exactly what’s in…
Chicken Noodle Soup
Last week I showed you how I made chicken broth in the slow cooker. If you haven’t seen it yet, hop on over to check it out. One of my favorite meals to make with the homemade broth, is chicken noodle soup. While you can use it in many other recipes, the superiority of homemade…
Slow Cooker Chicken Broth
I never thought I would be one of those people but I actually started making my own chicken broth. In the slow cooker. So it’s almost effortless. This isn’t the only kind of chicken broth I use now (I still love the jarred bouillon paste in a pinch) but for chicken noodle soup this is…
Homemade Gingerbread Spice Mix
My discovery this Christmas baking season has been Gingerbread Spice Mix. Ever since making the Gingerbread Oreo Cookie Balls I have a stash of the spice mix in my cupboard. I realized, that it is so much easier to have a ready-mix than gathering ground cinnamon, ginger, cloves and whichever other spices are needed for any…
10 Homemade Food Gift Ideas
We are going into the last weekend before Christmas and I bet you there will be masses heading to the mall. Are you also still looking for some last-minute gifts? Instead of joining all the other stressed out shoppers at the stores, let me encourage you to head to the kitchen instead. The brownie bites and…
Gingerbread Brownie Bites + Brownie Mix In A Jar
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TasteTheSeason #CollectiveBias How are you doing with your Christmas shopping so far? Do you have most of your gifts together or are you just getting started? We are taking things really easy this season. Heading to the crowded…
Healthy Dark Chocolate
Are you as much of a chocolate fiend as me?
I’ve always LOVED chocolate! These days I usually only have it as part of dessert – baked or melted into something.
Pregnancy however, seems to have brought back a childhood/teenage habit of snacking on chocolate ‘straight up’…