Category Archives: Cook

Homemade Doughnut Recipe

A perfect hands-on project for anyone reading 'Homer Price', making doughnuts is fun, messy and results in a delicious treat.  As a matter of fact this recipe is so wonderful, you should read 'Homer Price' to your children, just so you have ...

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Spaghetti and Meatball Cupcakes

Mark's birthday was last week and as a fun (and super easy) dessert for his birthday the children decided that they wanted to make "Spaghetti and Meatball" Cupcakes. We ...

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Homemade Yogurt and Yogurt Cheese: Guest Post from Katie

A special thanks to Katie at Kitchen Stewardship for today's guest post. By making my own yogurt, I save at least $300 a year on just one food item. If your family eats yogurt at ...

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Hamburger and Ant Cupcakes

One of the lovely women that I met at Blissdom is Liz who blogs at Hoosier Homemade.  Liz is super creative in the kitchen and her particular specialty is cupcakes. When I saw these amazing ant and hamburger cupcakes featured on her blog last week I knew that our little cupcake lover ...

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Cooking for a Crowd: 4 Moms, 35 Kids

As I was considering the topic of cooking for a crowd I realized that some would consider our normal dinner preparation as cooking for a crowd.  I generally think of groups larger than our regular 12 when I think of a crowd, but certainly when we have company it would qualify as a "crowd".  So ...

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Homemade Cottage Cheese Recipe

Last week when I posted about 'from scratch' cooking and a few of you asked for my recipe for making cottage cheese.  This recipe comes from way back in our 'poor' days when a recipe that called for cottage cheese was 'too expensive'.  Back then we made our own yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.  from ...

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Cooking from Scratch: 4 Moms, 35 Kids

This week the  4 Moms are talking about cooking from scratch, what we make and how we fit it into our busy days.  Visit Life in a Shoe, Smockity Frocks and The Common Room to get their perspectives. This is a huge topic, so I've chosen to ...

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Menu Planning: 4 Moms, 35 Kids

**Since we began cooking for our freezer, I do not menu plan like this anymore.  Now I simply send one of the children down to the freezer to pull something out and I stock up on vegetables and salad stuff when I go shopping.  We always have rice, potatoes and homemade bread (well, ...

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Feeding Your Family on a Budget: 4 Moms, 35 Kids

Before we begin talking about food budgets and kitchen stuff let me give you my caveat,  this is not my strong point.  Want to get ideas about scheduling, planning, cleaning, organizing, homeschooling?  No problem.  Want to talk about feeding your family?  Not so much. That said, we feed our family for less than half of the ...

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Freezer Cooking with a Group: OAMC

Our family works together with 4 other families to freezer cook every two months.  This allows us to purchase in bulk and save a lot of money.  (We average $5-6 per meal and each meal serves 8-12 people.  That is not including side dishes.) A number of you have ...

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