Creatively Simple ~ How to Make Homemade Healthy Soft Serve Dessert

Soft serve dessert is fun but most times nearly a junk food laden with artificial flavors and thickeners and all kinds of chemical stuff. We have come up with a very simple and very healthy alternative. It fits in somewhere between homemade ice cream and a smoothie. I will show you two flavors here, chocolate [...]

All About Chocolate

In our family just about anything chocolate is a favorite. When we read years ago that chocolate can be good for you and even sometimes put you in a better mood we thought that was great news. We love to cook in our home and create things that would be considered above and beyond normal. [...]

Creatively Simple – How to Make Homemade Granola

Making granola is just plain fun! You really can’t go wrong and you can be really creative. We buy old fashioned oatmeal in bulk partly just because we like to make so much granola. Granola can be pretty much anything you want it to be. Include some oats, oil, sweetener, nuts and fruit and toast [...]

Creatively Simple- How to Make Homemade Yogurt

Yogurt is one of the healthiest and simplest treats you can make for your family. Most folks that don’t make it are just intimidated, it is really very easy. Yogurt is great used in all kinds of recipes but we like it best for breakfast with fruit and our homemade granola.. Come join us in [...]

Creatively Simple- How to Make Homemade Bread

Most homemakers that don’t make bread are afraid they can’t make perfect bread. Well I have news for you. No one can make perfect bread. Not every time anyway. There are too many variables that affect your bread making and skill is only one of them. So do it as a way to serve your [...]

Creatively Simple – How to Make Chocolate Cobbler

  Just about anything chocolate is a huge favorite in our household. We usually buy cocoa powder in bulk like we do sugar. My daughters have gotten really creative with the desserts and chocolate cobbler has become a favorite. It is very rich so it probably won’t be too habit forming, and it is wonderful [...]

Creatively Simple- How to Make the Best Cowboy Cookies in the West

Cowboy Cookies are a favorite around our house. We have a hungry crowd on most days. Cowboy Cookies are different than most cookies because they have more than one main ingredient. They are more filling and have a little substance to them. Cowboy Cookies are great on the trail or just anytime. There are probably [...]

Creatively Simple – How to Grow Sprouts in a Jar

When it is cold outside and you are craving something fresh from the garden there is no need to run to the store and purchase something that looks fresh but really isn’t. Even in the middle of winter with snow on the ground you can have fresh green sprouts from your own kitchen. Sprouts are [...]

Creatively Simple – How to Make Homemade Donuts

My daughters are some of the most creative people I know. We have 5 daughters, 1 married and 4 still in our home. They love to create beautiful things and they are incredible cooks. They are also masters at “making do” with what is at hand. We live very simply and do not have the [...]