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Why Butter Separates from Homemade Toffee

Why Butter Separates from Homemade Toffee

  Merry Christmas from Simple Life and Home! I hope you’ve been enjoying the holidays and baking lots of delicious treats. So far I’ve made three batches of homemade caramels, creamy ham soup, no-knead bread, and, of course, my favorite homemade toffee. Now, in all...

How to Freeze Zucchini Bread

How to Freeze Zucchini Bread

Ahh, yes. The final installment on how to freeze zucchini has finally made its way to the blogosphere! If you’ve been reading this string of posts, you now know how to freeze shredded zucchini (how to freeze zucchini, part 1) and how to freeze sliced zucchini (how to...

How to Freeze Zucchini Slices

How to Freeze Zucchini Slices

Last week, I shared how to freeze zucchini – part 1, which demonstrated how to freeze shredded zucchini. This type of freezing is fine, as long as you’re adding the zucchini to a bread recipe…or soup. But sometimes, a recipe calls for sliced zucchini, like my...

How to Freeze Zucchini – Part 1

How to Freeze Zucchini – Part 1

If you’re like most people who have ever grown a garden, you’ve probably tried your hand at growing zucchini at some point along the way. It’s a very rewarding plant to grow, since it usually produces well in any type of climate and typically claims a spot as the top...

How to Freeze Garden-Fresh Peas

How to Freeze Garden-Fresh Peas

I am so, so, so, so, soooo excited! After years of unsuccessful attempts to grow enough peas to save for the winter (you can read this sad saga here and here!), I finally have a bountiful pea harvest. Well, bountiful might be overstating it a bit, but at least I have...

How to Freeze Green Onions

How to Freeze Green Onions

Now that the strawberry harvest is essentially over [whew!], it’s time to start picking and processing some of my other spring garden plants. The first of these that is ready (besides the lettuce, of course, which we’ve been enjoying in salad for several weeks now),...

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake

Well, it’s finally happened. After a good three-week run, my abundant strawberry harvest is drying up. (I can’t say I’m sorry. We were all getting a little tired of picking and processing baskets of berries every other day, and I have plenty of jam, both freezer and...

How to Make Classic Strawberry Jam

How to Make Classic Strawberry Jam

This year, in addition to several jars of freezer jam, I’ve also learned how to make classic strawberry jam …as in the kind you boil on the stove and preserve in your water-bath canner. Here’s why. As much as I love freezer jam, it has a few drawbacks. First, you can...

Crock-Pot Chicken Fajitas

Crock-Pot Chicken Fajitas

As promised earlier this month, I’m sharing my Crock-Pot Chicken Fajitas recipe with you. (You could just as easily call this Crock-Pot Chicken Soft Tacos, since you’re really making the chicken and seasonings in the Crock Pot. How you serve it is up to you!)...

Amish Country Granola Cereal

Amish Country Granola Cereal

Today, I’m sharing my new favorite breakfast cereal recipe with you. This Amish Country Granola Cereal is my morning-meal-of-choice these days for three reasons. One, it’s delicious. Two, it’s frugal. And three, it’s quasi-healthy, sporting ingredients such as...

Kung Pao Chicken

Kung Pao Chicken

It’s recipe week here at Simple Life and Home. If you’ve seen a dish on my monthly menu plan but can’t find the recipe, this is the week to stay tuned! First up: Kung Pao Chicken. I started making this dish over five years ago when my sister-in-law shared the recipe...

Vegetable Beef Soup

Vegetable Beef Soup

Last week, I made the most delicious vegetable beef soup ever. It was so tasty that I knew I needed to share the recipe with you. Before I go any further, I should note that this vegetable beef soup is a stay-at-home, simmer-all-day kind of recipe, which is fabulous...

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