Snacks & Deserts

Peanut Butter Granola Bars

May 27, 2011 By jenniepaige 7 Comments
Granola bars un-cutThanks for checking back at Pure Homemaking, I hope you make yourself at home!

These granola bars are to DIE for! And I’m not just saying that because I made them. My husband declared they were “the best granola bars I ever had”. They really are very good better than the expensive store variety. Plus they are way cheaper to make AND you know that they aren’t filled with junk like high fructose corn syrup which contains mercury half the time. These granola bars are a healthy snack, especially when you to soak your granola to break down the phytic acid content and make to make the grain more digestible. Even if you forgot to do the soak you can still benefit from a junk free snack that you can feel good about giving your family (and yourself!). [Read more...]

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Liberating French Fries

May 10, 2011 By jenniepaige 4 Comments

I had a hankering for french fries this past weekend. Like I HAD to have them. And I’m not even a big french fry person-I am SO picky about french fries. They must be thin, crispy and light feeling. Not burnt and not chewy-gross! I also try to avoid any kind that you can get through a drive-through, and I have never seen any advertised in a restaurant that says they were cooked in a HEALTHY oil.  The affordable frozen pre-made variety are always only so-so and usually have nasty things in them like trans-fat, msg, etc. So, I generally just don’t eat them.

But we were grilling up some fantastic grass-fed cheeseburgers this weekend and I told my husband that I MUST have french fries. I think I was tempted originally by a recipe over at The Cheese Slave and decided that I had to give it a try. We have made french fries that were fried in olive oil before and baked in the oven but they never compared to that boardwalk fries taste I was going for.  So I decided to give french fries fried in grass-fed tallow a go. [Read more...]

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THE Best Granola. EVER.

April 27, 2011 By jenniepaige 15 Comments
YUM!

After my post last week in which I claimed that I had the best granola recipe EVER, I thought that I better post the actual recipe so you can see if you like it as much as we did!  (oops!) Remember this teaser pic?

Ok, so not to toot my own horn here but my granola turned out SO good this time! I”m not sure if it was because I actually took the time to soak the oats and nuts or perhaps the added salt really helped to pronounce the flavors more- doesn’t matter because it was gooood! [Read more...]

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Kombucha Tea is the Coolest

April 15, 2011 By jenniepaige 2 Comments
kombucha

I started making Kombucha last summer and have since gotten away from it. It’s easy to do things like that when your life is so busy. Well I killed my scoby (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) a while back because I knew I wanted to take a break from it. And here is just another one of the reasons that Kombucha is the coolest. I did keep some of the tea in my fridge for oh…lets not try to remember how long, and I wanted to see if I could re-culture a Mother (our would it be a baby?) myself. This has happened before when I have done a double fermentation by just leaving it out on the counter after transferring the scoby for a new batch. I wasn’t sure how well it would work though, seeing as it’s been a long time since I’ve messed with it. But I figured hey, can’t hurt anything right? So, I took out my quart size mason jar of the tea, placed it in a safe quiet place and topped it with a coffee filter and just let it be for about a week. [Read more...]

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