Home Good Recipes

These healthy homemade recipes will get you started and give you the confidence you need to experiment in the kitchen. Real food cooking doesn’t have to be hard.

A small bowl of homemade vanilla bean simple syrup with two vanilla beans and an orchid flower.

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Sweetening Your Homestead: How to Make Vanilla Syrup

Homemade sourdough crackers laid out on parchment paper.

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How to Turn Sourdough Discard into Delicious Crackers

Honey dribbling off a honey dipper.

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Sustainable Sweets: Making Honey-Sweetened Treats

A white plate filled with quail egg fried rice on a wooden table.

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Tiny Eggs, Big Flavor: Easy Quail Egg Fried Rice

A beautiful Thanksgiving spread.

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Elevating Thanksgiving with Homegrown Ingredients

A closeup of my crock pot French Onion Soup in a white ceramic bowl.

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Crock Pot French Onion Soup – Easy & Delicious!

A pumpkin pie with a slice missing and leaves and tiny pumpkins around it.

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The Perfect Pumpkin Pie Recipe for Any Occasion

Homemade white bread with strawberry jam.

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Unleash Your Inner Baker: The Ultimate White Bread Recipe

A platter of maple glazed ham and roasted potatoes.

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Maple Glazed Ham with Potatoes & Homemade Coleslaw

A white plate with red pepper, cheddar, and ham mini quiches topped with chopped chives.

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Make Mini Quiches in a Muffin Tin that Everyone Will Love

A close up view of my homemade hush puppies with my ranch dressing from scratch.

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Delicious Hush Puppies Recipe with Creamy Ranch Dressing

Broccoli rice casserole with loads of cheese in a casserole dish and oven mitts.

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Broccoli Rice Casserole: A Cheesy Family Favorite

A white bowl of spaghetti sauce with ingredients scattered around it.

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How To Make Homemade Spaghetti Sauce From Scratch

Delicious Gingerbread Pancakes with Molasses from Scratch [Recipe]

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Delicious Gingerbread Pancakes with Molasses from Scratch [Recipe]

A loaf of freshly sliced potato bread on a wooden cutting board.

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How to Make Delicious Homemade Potato Bread from Scratch

Bowls of Thanksgiving foods sitting on the kitchen counter.

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Two Delicious Slow-Cooker Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers

Sage: A Culinary & Medicinal Herb [+ Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe]

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Sage: A Culinary & Medicinal Herb [+ Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe]

Potato Pancakes Made in Minutes with Leftover Mashed Potatoes

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Potato Pancakes Made in Minutes with Leftover Mashed Potatoes

Fresh Russian carrot salad, topped with fresh parsley, in a white bowl on a wooden table.

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Quick & Easy Koreiskaya Morkovka Russian Carrot Salad Recipe

Tips for Making the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies You’ve Ever Made

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Tips for Making the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies You’ve Ever Made

Lemon Pasta Recipe: A Delicious And Easy Meal

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Lemon Pasta Recipe: A Delicious And Easy Meal

A closeup view of the potato, garlic, and leek soup in a shallow white bowl on an orange tablecloth. Soup is garnished with sour cream and chives.

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Easy 5-Ingredient Potato Soup (Freezer-Friendly & Gluten-Free)

Simply Sourdough: The Ultimate Recipe Roundup

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Simply Sourdough: The Ultimate Recipe Roundup

Some tips for using slow cookers and an Instapot, plus plenty of recipes to keep your dinners covered whenever the need arises.

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Instant Pot and Slow Cooker Meals for Dinner

A close up of curry made with homemade masala and a small bowl of white rice.

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Traditional Fijian Indian Curry from Scratch + Masala Recipe

A cozy overhead view of multiple hands reaching for bowls of various soups, including bean stew, creamy mushroom soup, green broccoli soup, and squash soup, arranged on a table with bread and cloth napkins.

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10 Best Winter Soups to Warm You Up on Chilly Days

Roast beef sitting in green beans in the slow-cooker.

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2-for-1 Slow Cooker Beef Roast plus Bonus Bean Soup!

Flax seed crackers arranged on a wooden plate with a wooden spoon full of flax seeds.

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A Recipe for Healthy Flax Seed Crackers in the Dehydrator

A stack of homemade butter blocks.

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4 Ways to Make Homemade Butter from Raw Milk (Cow or Goat)

A bottle of hard apple cider on a wooden table with apples around it.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Brewing Hard Apple Cider at Home

Many people see polenta in the health food store and just keep on walking, but you don't want to miss out on this awesome side dish substitute.

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Polenta: A Gluten-Free Alternative to Grains

Discover how to make "Little Devil" deviled quail eggs as well as other recipes made just for these tiny eggs. The rich flavors will have you begging for more.

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Little Devils & Other Quail Egg Delicacies

I've discovered there are loads of foods that can be cooked on the grill. Think beyond the dogs and burgers. Here's some grilling recipes to get you started.

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Sizzlin’ Summer Grilling Recipes

Wild harvested dandelions with the roots still intact.

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Foraging Edible Plants Right Outside Your Door

The word Ebelskiver is Danish for apple slices, but the meaning is a dessert or snack similar to a pancake, but with a flakier texture and round shape.

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Ebelskiver {Pancake Puff} Recipe Roundup

An herb crusted chèvre with a slice cut from it.

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Homemade Chèvre: A Homesteader’s Guide to Crafting Cheese

Oven crepes are super easy to make and hard to mess up. You'll love them even more if you fill them with this delicious maple cream cheese filling. It's our family favorite.

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Oven Crepes Recipes & Maple Cream Cheese Filling

This lovely honey-rosemary brine gives a wonderful flavor to not only wild onions, but to garlic cloves, sliced shallots, green onions and other vegetables, as well.

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Pickled Wild Onions in Honey-Rosemary Brine

This is a one skillet dish, so clean up is easy. Since this fried rice recipe makes use of a lot of leftovers, your refrigerator will have more room as well.

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Something From Nothing: Fried Rice

Roast chicken is an easy meal that comes out of the oven sitting on top of its very own side dish. All I have to do is pour a couple glasses of milk (or wine) and dinner is ready.

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Roast Chicken with Sweet Potato, Apple & Cranberry Stuffing

Fried chicken on a wooden cutting board with fresh veggies in the background.

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Make KFC-Style Fried Chicken at Home with Healthier Ingredients

4 Cheese Baked Macaroni & Cheese: Homestyle Goodness from Scratch

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4 Cheese Baked Macaroni & Cheese: Homestyle Goodness from Scratch