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Sauces

Hot Sauce

April 13, 2010

This is our hot sauce collection. Well, I should say this is my husband’s hot sauce collection. Can you tell he likes his food spicy? Not only does he like his food spicy, he likes the right sauce for the right food, and I have to say I agree with him on this one. Chinese [...]

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Peanut Butter Pancake Syrup

March 24, 2010

By now most of you probably know that my husband and family loves peanut butter. We love it in peanut butter pie and also in peanut butter baked oatmeal, but one of my kids favorite ways to eat peanut butter is on pancakes and waffles. When I came across this recipe for peanut butter pancake [...]

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Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce

December 10, 2009

I have tried several hot fudge sauces over the last few years. I started trying to make my own hot fudge sauce in order to avoid the store bought version that is full of ingredients that I cannot pronounce. The homemade version may not be healthy, but at least I know what is in it. [...]

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Homemade Taco Sauce

November 12, 2009

My family loves the Mexican Pizzas that I make. Since they are a copycat type recipe, I have been buying and using the taco sauce you buy in a jar at the store. We liked the famous fast food restaurant brand best, so that is what I was buying, and it worked well. Every time [...]

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Homemade Vanilla Update

August 11, 2009

Back in March, I posted about making homemade vanilla extract. I know several many people thought this was a strange idea. I am pretty sure my sisters thought I was a bit crazy for making it. But I really want to make most of our food from scratch and making homemade vanilla is so simple to [...]

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Emerils Basic Red Sauce

June 25, 2009

I know a lot of people buy store bought spaghetti or red sauce, like Ragu and Prego. In the past I have purchased it some, but I have never been a big fan of it. Now that I am trying to stay away from packaged and processed things, I never buy it. I have a [...]

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Homemade Pizza Sauce

January 15, 2009

We like pizza, but since we live in the middle of nowhere, not quite nowhere, but a good way from a pizza restaurant, we make pizza at home. I make it several times a month. Our favorites are pepperoni and Canadian bacon. But we experiment with other varieties as well. I have made many pizza [...]