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Vlog: Creating Your Own Homemade Mix Recipes
When making your own mixes, start with a scratch recipe that you love, and make several mixes the same time you are making this dish for your family. Place each dry ingredient from the recipe in...
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Jar Gift Mix: Split Pea Soup
This tasty soup is ready in just 30 minutes on the stove, or 3 hours in the slow cooker. All you need to add is carrots and water. This would make a lovely gift for a school teacher who needs a night...
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3: Quart Jar Spice Mixes
I’ve been out of town and there’s so much to catch up about. But first I’d like to give you a post that’s actually useful . Our large family uses a lot of spice mixes especially ranch dressing mix;...
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3 More Quart Size Spice Mixes
Fajita Mix: 3/4 c seasoned salt 3/4 cup oregano 3/4 cup cumin 1/2 c garlic powder 1/2 c chili powder 1/4 cup paprika Yield: 3 1/2 c To use mix 2 Tbs oil; 2 Tbs fresh lime juice with zest; and 2 Tbs...
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Ever Been Overwhelmed?
The feeling your eight year old self got when Mom said, “Go clean your room?” The feeling you get when you pick up the kids from school and realize it’s ballet night, soccer night, and your turn to...
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Homemade Cookie Mixes
Cookies are my favorite. I’m especially partial to ones with chocolate, but I’ll eat any cookie. 2 cookies with ice-cream sandwiched in between is the ultimate dessert experience. With all of these...
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Whole Wheat Biscuit Mix
Use this recipe in the place of any storebought boxed biscuit mix, such as bisquick. It makes biscuits, pancakes, waffles, cookies, impossible pie (both sweet and savory), scones, muffins, and more!...
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Homemade Pancake Mix
On our recent camping trip, I made 2 kinds of pancake batter in advance (regular and protein) and froze them in ziplock baggies. In the cooler they helped to keep other foods cold and were thawed by...
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Cinnamon Syrup Mix
Syrup solutions usually call for 2 parts sugar to 1 part water boiled together for 1 minute. My husband’s mother used 2 cups brown sugar and 1 cup water. After we married I got the secret recipe and...
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Italian Seasoning Blend
This recipe is one you’ll want to tweak to match your own family’s tastes. For example, I don’t like oregano, so I sub more basil and parsley to make up the volume. If you like things hot add...
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Instant Pesto Mix
With pesto a little goes a long way for a delicious fresh flavor. It’s nice to have a jar of this mix on hand as a pantry staple, especially if you use Pesto a lot. 2 cups dried basil 1 cup chopped...
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Enchilada Sauce Mix
I love food with Southwest flair. I could eat it every day of the week and not get tired of it. Enchilada sauce is not just good on enchiladas. It’s also yummy over eggs and in casseroles. Each...
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Spaghetti Sauce Mix
Mmmmm, Spaghetti! A crowd pleaser for sure. All of these recipes work really well in the slow cooker for hands off cooking that will fill your house with a delicious fragrance. If you have them on...
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Homemade Italian Dressing Mix
Italian dressing is the perfect condiment for a romantic date night at home. It also makes a good chicken marinade and a bread dip. Here are 3 varieties to choose from: Italian Vinaigrette; Creamy...
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Homemade Breakfast Sausage Mix
I love sausage! Especially when it’s part of biscuits and gravy. That dish was my grandpa’s specialty and his love of it, made me love it too. Unfortunately sausage is full of grease and is high in...
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Homemade Beef Stew Mix
Beef stew is one of those dishes that is hard to mess up (if you use the right about of salt.) Onions and garlic can give plenty of flavor on there own. Once you taste a stew with just the right...
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Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix
Ranch dressing is the ultimate in comfort foods. It’s makes raw veggies party food. Unfortunately the secret ingredient in most bottles of ranch is MSG. That stuff tastes really good and brings...
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Homemade Pizza Crust Mix & Pizza Sauce Mix Too!
This pizza crust recipe started as the commercial recipe for the pizza shop in Lamoni, Iowa that fed the college students at Graceland. It was a local favorite and I was elated when the recipe made...
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Homemade Alfredo Sauce Mix
Alfredo sauce is mostly cream and butter with a touch of garlic and maybe some white wine. This recipe is a lot lighter than that, but still gives the creamy texture and mouthful of flavor that you’re...
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Homemade Onion Soup Mix
Onion soup mix is rarely used for onion soup around here. It makes a great dip mix, roast potato topping, roast beef seasoning….There are a ton of recipes calling for this stuff. To save money, buy...
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