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Three Reasons and Three Recipes to make Homemade Salad Dressings
The reasons are: It’s frugal. It tastes better, by far! It’s wholesome. The recipes to get you started: Thousand Island Dressing (not Atkins friendly) ½ cup mayonnaise 2 Tbsp ketchup 1 Tbsp vinegar 2 tsp sugar 2 tsp sweet pickle relish 1 tsp onion flakes (or minced, fresh onion) pinch each- salt and pepper All [...]
Homemade Lemon Curd
I have bought Lemon Curd ($$$-ouch-$$$$) twice in my life. Hubs and I love the lemony-wonderfulness, but we balk, big time, at the price. Usually $5 for a tiny 4 oz. jar at my grocery. I was thrilled to learn how to make it at home! You’ll need: 1¼ cups sugar 2 T honey [...]
Ranch Dip/Dressing
As with my ketchup recipe, I got the idea from Passionate Homemaking and made it into a dip that suits our family. 1 – 16 oz. carton sour cream 1 tsp dried parsley 1/2 tsp. dried dill weed 1/4 tsp garlic powder 1/4 tsp onion powder 1/4 tsp salt 1/8 tsp ground white pepper Stir it [...]
Homemade is Best
So I read the ingredient list on my jar of Hellmann’s mayo yesterday. I wasn’t surprised to find sugar there, it’s in EVERYTHING! Another item to add to my ever growing list of stuff I have to learn to make from scratch. I was somewhat dismayed. So, as usual, I googled it, and as usual [...]






