My family loves all sorts of soups, any time of the year. Soups are an easy way to feed a large family. You can easily add extra vegetables or even stretch it out by adding more broth or water. You can turn a soup into a stew just by thickening the broth and adding dumplings…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen
Enchilada Bake
The recipe I am sharing with you today is a little different than what we traditionally share here on Our City Homestead! My family loves an array of foods, using quick and easy ingredients, like this simple to prepare, but delicious, enchilada bake. I like to cook different foods, especially international-inspired foods. It keeps meal…
Puffed Wheat Squares
Puffed Wheat Squares (sometimes known as puffed wheat candy) is a treat I have enjoyed since I was a kid! It is an ooey gooey chocolatey square with puffed wheat that creates a wonderfully chewy square. They are so delicious, it is hard to eat just one! I have been making puffed wheat squares for…
The Most Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie
Chocolate Chip Cookies are the perfect after school snack or sweet treat after a delicious meal. These cookies are full of chocolate and goes great with a cold glass of milk or a cup of coffee!
Homemade Mint Extract
This year, my mint has grown wonderfully. It has been a hot summer with little rain (so we have watered often!!) and the mint grew so well that I ended up with far too much mint!! So, I decided to make mint extract! I love using mint extracts in desserts like mint nanaimo bars or…
How to Cook Patty Pan Squash
Last year we bought some patty pan squash — also known as sunburst squash — from the farmers market and absolutely loved it, so we decided to grow it ourselves. Patty pans grow much like zucchini. They’re sweet and neutral in flavor so you can season them however you like. When they’re a good size,…
Poor Man’s Meal from the Great Depression
Watching documentaries and videos about the 1930s often mention “poor man’s meal” or poor man’s dinner. There are a lot of variations of this humble dinner using ground beef or hot dogs, potatoes, tomato sauce or ketchup and sometimes other veggies too. It’s a simple meal, but delicious, using ingredients most of us have on…
Bread from the Great Depression
This simple bread recipe from the Great Depression takes only a handful of ingredients, is easy to prepare and quite delicious! This is my go-to bread! Let’s get started! We are using one pound of flour which I weigh on a kitchen scale. Depending upon the type of flour, the humidity in the kitchen, the…
