Whole Grain Sourdough English Muffins and Sloppy Joes

I love playing with recipes. I love new twists on old favorites. I love updating my recipes to include new techniques as the science is made available and we can increase the nutrition of our foods. These two recipes are ones that are FUN and delicious! Wardeh Harmon of GNOWFGLINS presented beloved favorites made more [...]

Trish’s Frugal Recipes for Large Families

Baking bread

  My friend Trish is a wife, mom to NINE children, a home-educator as well as a top-notch frugal homekeeper. Trish is my special guest on the Get Real – Get Prepared radio show, Saturday April 30, 2011, from 6 – 8 PM EST. For a direct link to the LIVE show and the chatroom, [...]

Flax-Chia Unleavened Crackers

The last few days of celebrating the Feast of Unleavened Bread, we ran out of Haycraft Homemade Whole Wheat Matzah! So I tweaked a wonderful low carb, unleavened cracker recipe and made Flax -Chia crackers for our unleavened bread. These are so crisp and nutty and so easy to make, ANY time! This is a [...]

Passover Coconut Macaroons

Passover macaroons

Shalom Y’all, I made these tonight for Passover. AMAZING! Very light and fluffy, not heavy or dense. Passover macaroons My family went ga-ga over these and they are perfect for Passover! Adapted from this version, a video of Lillian making the recipe! Passover Coconut Macaroons Makes about 20 cookies Ingredients 1/2 cup organic virgin coconut [...]

Passover / Resurrection and Homemade Whole Wheat Matzah

Homemade Haycraft Matzah

In the book of Exodus, G-d tells us to remember Passover for many reasons, the most important being the sacrifice of the perfect Lamb, Who we know is Yeshua. John 1:29 The next day John saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of G-d, who takes away the sin of the world! [...]

Vickilynn back on the radio

Vickilynn Haycraft

Tune in Monday March 7, 2011 from 8-9 PM CST for the popular “Dr Prepper Show“, when James Talmage Stevens will interview Vickilynn Haycraft of Real Food Living. They will talk about the vision for Vickilynn’s upcoming weekly radio show on PRN, entitled “Get Real – Get Prepared“! Catch Vickilynn on Monday nights (starting March [...]

Amazing Roast Chicken and Homemade Broth

roast chicken

Shalom Y’all, For Shabbat (Sabbath – Friday night at sundown to Saturday sundown) I made my favorite chicken dish using my favorite  method of cooking whole chicken. Two whole chickens roasted to a gorgeous brown, served juicy and moist, the leftovers for another meal and then the carcasses made  into lovely, rich broth. I prefer [...]

Extra Oven This Holiday

Give yourself another oven this holiday!

Holiday cooking can be fun and fabulous AND sometimes frantic. The menu is planned, the guests are on the way. The ingredients for the meal are prepped, the table set and excitement fills the air. Now it’s time to roast a turkey or beef for the holiday. Oh no! The oven is chock full of [...]

Apple-Berry Baked Oatmeal (9 x 13)

Apple-Berry Baked Oatmeal

Shalom! This is a variation of our basic 9 x 13 Baked Oatmeal. I have also done this in a dairy-free version using juice instead of milk, almond extract, chopped almonds and fresh or frozen blueberries.  (See recipe listings ). This is easily halved and you can use less fruit if desired. (We like a [...]

Pizza Swirls instructions

Green Pizza Swirls

Shalom Y’all, I posted a picture of our fab Green Pizza Swirls and promised more info, which I promptly forgot about until today. I was looking up the Pizza Swirls for a friend’s request and saw that I left this undone! Accccckkk! So, here is the follow-up: OK, the Pizza Swirls. My family (and friends) [...]