Simply Homemaking

I returned last night from a trip to visit family.  Our youngest son and his wife were sealed for time and all eternity in the Idaho Falls T...

13 years ago, August 9, 2000 I invented my own salsa recipe for canning.  I've tweaked it various ways through the years.  I call it ~ ...

Our little chickens have grown up and started laying eggs just over a week ago!  So far, we've had 29 eggs.  New layers make smallish e...

You know how it is... some days the whole day goes by and it seems as if I didn't accomplish one thing!  Today was NOT like that.  Today...

In the last post , I gave you my recipe for homemade healthy saltines.  They really are delicious, but within a few hours seemed sort of ...

Not long ago, I blogged about how I was making " crackers ."  That is fine, but we still wanted real crackers.  You know, our bel...

2 pounds of Jalepeno peppers from our garden: Wash them, and then pack them tightly into wide-mouth pint jars.  I ended up with 5 ful...