Homemade Meatballs

Today I decided I would create my own meatballs so I took out of our homemade italian and maple flavored deer sausage and below is what I created.  My cooking consists of lots of creativity I strive to make a recipe my own by either leaving out an ingredient or adding an ingredient, today is completely thrown together without a recipe~!

Recipe:
2 Pounds Maple Deer Sausage
1 Pound Italian Deer Sausage
1/2 C. Diced Onion
1 C. Crush Crackers
3 Eggs
1 Tbls Garlic Powder
Salt/Pepper

I combined all ingredients in a bowl then formed into meatballs, makes approximately 45 meatballs, I cooked them in the oven at 350 degrees for approximately 25-30 minutes until done~!

These are the crackers I crushed and used:

Then I made a sauce for the meatballs, I sliced green and red peppers, yellow onion and combined with:

4 Tbls. Flour

1 C. Brown Sugar

1/3 C. Soy Sauce

1/4 C. White Vinegar

1/3 C. Ketchup

1 Can Pineapple Tidbits With Juice

Combine and mix well cook until slightly thickened then poor over meatballs, I kept it warm in my crockpot then served it with organic jasmine white rice~! 

Very Yummy The Family Loved It~!

Pancake Mix Recipe

I make my own pancake mix ever since I found the Make-A-Mix Cookery cookbook, recommended to me by a wonderful woman!

Pancake Mix Recipe:

10 C. All-Purpose Flour

2.5 C. Instant NonFat Dry Milk

1/2 C. Sugar

1/4 C. Baking Powder

Mix all ingredients together well and then store in desired container!  I use two large ball jars as pictured!

Pancake Recipe:

1.5 C. Pancake Mix

1 Egg Slightly Beaten

1 C. Water

3 Tbls. Vegetable Oil

Put pancake mix in medium bowl and add egg, water, and oil.  Blend well!  Cook on hot oiled griddle about 3-4 minutes until golden brown on both sides.  Makes 10-12 4inch pancakes!  I haven't clarified in the ingredients lists, but in my recipes I use organic flour and all other organic ingredients when possible.  I have added a picture of the baking powder I use. 

Yummy! 

Yummy Vanilla Frosting Recipe!

My go to vanilla frosting recipe~!

1/2 C. Butter Softened
3/4 C. Sour Cream
5 C. Powdered Sugar
1/4 C. Milk

If needed you can add more powdered sugar depending on consistency you are looking for! Also depending on what you may be using the frosting for you can add food coloring but here I prefer to not add food coloring if I can avoid it but for those that are interested health food stores sell food coloring that is nontoxic! 

Mom On & Enjoy~! 

Eggless Vanilla Cupcakes

This spring my Daughter was on a soccer team that had a kiddo with an egg allergy, that lead me to this recipe because my trusty yellow cake recipe called for eggs! It is always kind of scary to try a new recipe for me #1 I hate to waste the ingredients if it doesn't turn out and #2 if you need to take it somewhere you aren't sure if it will be good or not! I didn't really have time to test it first and I was pleasantly surprised how well they turned out! The recipe was for eggless cake to be baked in an 8x8 pan! What you need: 1 1/2 c flour 1 c sugar 1 t baking soda 1/2 t salt 1/2 c oil 1 c milk 2 t vanilla (I used real maple syrup) 1 T vinegar Preheat oven to 350F. Pour all dry ingredients flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt into electric mixer, then add oil, milk, maple syrup and vinegar. Mix well! Fill cupcake foils 2/3 full and bake about 15 minutes and/or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. I doubled the recipe to make 24 cupcakes! We frosted them with my homemade cream cheese frosting recipe!

How It Began

In 2013 I slowly noticed that the pain in my joints was increasing and making it more and more difficult to function daily. I have a high tolerance to pain so by the time I notice something is hurting it has gotten pretty bad. I remember one day so clearly, I had walked out of the store with a couple bags of groceries and my hands were just killing me that day, I accidentally dropped one and it contained a bottle of wine, it was at that moment out of sadness and humor that I considered licking it up off the ground LOL but in reality it really made me realize I was in bad shape. By winter of 2013-2014 I feared I would soon not be able to do all the things I needed to do to run a household being a working Mom with three kiddos. I tried many things and then one day I happened upon The Food Babe on FB and I read her story, and it caught my attention. It was then that I decided to try eating organic NonGMO slowly replacing all the items in our cupboards with more natural food items. It took 6 months to detox my body, I slowly noticed that I wasn't waking up in pain and my joints felt amazing again. I also noticed that if I ate out or ate "toxic" foods as I call them within a day or two my joints would be bothering me until it was out of my system. We are not 100% organic NonGMO but I would say 85%, anything I can get in organic or NonGMO form I do. I began looking for more ways to make things from scratch especially eliminating boxed cake mixes and frostings, starting to make these items from scratch. I have always been good at baking and cooking but now I was more determined to not just grab boxes from the shelves of the middle of the store. Reading labels was really eye opening, finding out what was really in our foods was down right frightening! Thus begins my blog to share recipes that I use. Homemade doesn't have to be time consuming or require a lot of special ingredients. I prefer to seek recipes that are simple and easy yet homemade. Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoy!