Honey Sugar Scrub
Combine all ingredients, store in a lidded container in bathroom, or better yet right in the shower where you can reach lol.
Sometimes you just want that scrubbed clean, soothing feeling of a good ‘ole body scrub. Well have no fear, I will tell you how to make your own.
Lavender Vanilla Body Scrub
Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Stores for 2+ months right on your countertop. Mmmm Mmmm smelling it now is making me want to go jump in the tub!
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After using my mixture, I decided I really wanted to change the consistency. I added 3T of baking soda, and am liking it much better :
Homemade BBQ Sauce
Mix ingredients together in a sauce pan and simmer on low heat for a few minutes to incorporate flavors. Enjoy.
This is so easy, why in the world have I been buying the expensive organic ketchups when I could just make it? yeah, I don’t know either.
Ketchup
Combine all ingredients in a kettle on the stove, heat on low and whisk until it starts to bubble.
Reduce heat and simmer for 20 min. Remove from heat and let cool. Chill before serving, store in sealed container in the refrigerator.
Okay, I’ll admit it, I am a bbq junky! I love bbq anything! I have recently taken to making up my own bbq sauces when I’m cooking because we don’t care for the store bought organic varieties much. Hope you enjoy this one, I know I did.
Beef BBQ
Slow cook beef in chicken broth and seasonings for cooking beef on low for 4-6 hours or until fully cooked but tender and juicy. Drain meat and pull apart into shreds. For the sauce, I mixed ketchup honey and seasonings for bbq sauce with a few drops of liquid smoke, I am sorry I don’t have more accurate measurements, I have a bad habit of dash it, mix it, taste kind of cooking.
Yes, pasta noodles. With this recipe that I found here, I make my lasagna noodles, multi-purpose broad noodles and really thin noodles I use as spaghetti. It was way easier than I thought making my own pasta would be.
Pasta Noodles
Mix flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl. Make a large pit in the mixture. Pour your beaten eggs into the pit then add the water and oil. Stir until the ingredients are all combined. Put on well floured surface and knead. Begin rolling out dough with a floured rolling pin. If the dough begins to stick to your surface, just lift it up and sprinkle more flour under. Once dough is about 1/8″ in thickness or less, cut with knife or pizza cutter into desired shape. Photo below was from my lasagna noodles. 1 recipe of this dough made enough for exactly one 3 layered lasagna in a 9×13 dish.
This is what I use when I hand wash my dishes:
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, if you aren’t using the vodka, I would choose an oil that is disinfecting) |
| I shook it up a little to show you just how sudsy this could be 🙂 |
*Changed Vinegar to Vodka because Dr. Bronners brand suggests never mixing vinegar and castile soap… I figure they probably know what they are talking about 😉
I made this recipe with noodles I made following this recipe, making them from my fresh milled wheat.
Lasagna
Cook noodles in boiling water or broth for 20-25, I add about 2 Tablespoons of olive oil to it to keep them from sticking. Brown ground beef adding garlic powder, italian seasoning and minced onion for added flavor. Add in spaghetti sauce (if you are not cooking with grass fed/clean meat, you will need to drain first then return to skillet) and simmer for 5-10 min. Layer noodles, then 1/3 sauce mix, then half of the ricotta and half of the mozzarella, repeat, then last layer is noodles, remaining sauce mix, and the cheddar. Top with the olive oil drizzled across the top and sprinkle with italian seasoning. Bake at 350º for approx 35min. Serve with garlic bread.. yum.
Sausage and Egg Puffs
Mix all ingredients. Cover and refrigerate.
Heat oven to 350º. Pour mixture into greased 2 quart casserole dish. Bake until knife inserted in center comes out clean approx. 1 hour.
I served with salsa over top.
Chili is something I make ALL the time, and I can guarantee you, I have not made it the same 2 times in a row. The basics are the same but chili is so easy to add your own personal variations to, that you can have lots of fun with making it your own. Oh yeah, and remember, I use organic ingredients and my beef is grass fed.
Jen’s Chili
Fry up your beef with the peppers, onions and half of the garlic powder. Combine this and remaining ingredients in crockpot and cook for 4 hours on high or in a pot on stove and simmer on low for 2 hours.
Homemaker Gone Natural 