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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  I was gifted some peaches the other day and I was able to can 4 quarts and 7 pints of them! They are beautiful! I had a few peaches left over, not quite enough to make a batch of peach jam, but then I thought of the mulberries that I had in my freezer that Anita had gifted me! I decided that Peach Mulberry Jam sounded amazing and guess what! It is!  And, it is beautiful! I know, you won't be able to use this recipe right away, unless you are lucky enough to have some mulberries in your freezer. But, maybe you can Pin it or tuck it away until next year. If you get some mulberries when they are ripe and freeze them, you can save them until peaches are ready to harvest and make this tasty jam. The nice thing about Peach Mulberry jam is that there aren't nearly as many seeds as there are in a jam made with blackberries or strawberries and somehow I feel like this recipe might have thickened without pectin because it started to thicken very quickly and the end result is a little stiffer than necessary, (but still oh so tasty!) I pureed the peaches and the mulberries in the blender, so this jam is almost a jelly because there isn't any chunks of fruit in it. But, it isn't really a jelly either. I love the smooth way it spreads on my toast! So here is the recipe and I hope that you get the chance to make it! I got about 6 half pints from this recipe. If you click it, you will be able to print it off!  Have you ordered our Jam In 3 Winks e-book? There are loads of unusual and delicious jam and jelly recipes in it and could have it in minutes by going to our Etsy Shop!
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  We have written so many posts about cooking with kids! Getting your kids to cook teaches and reinforces important skills in their lives. Here are a few for example:
This year, Lindsey and Alicia are home schooling their children. Cooking is a favorite part of the curriculum this year. Of course, neither of them waited until they were home schooling to begin enjoying cooking with their kids. They both started when the children were much younger. Anyone can enjoy the fun and learning of cooking with your children even if you don't homeschool. Check out these posts:
For this school year, Lindsey discovered a wonderful cookbook to use with Emily as they cook through this school year together! It is called the Cooking & Baking Class Box Set and you can order it on Amazon! Lindsey loves that this set comes with a cooking and a baking set! And, it comes with a little cutting board as well. My granddaughter is in the first grade now. She is a good reader, and she can read and follow all of the directions very well. The beginning of the book teaches basic cooking knowledge and explains the cooking terms that the children may be using as they cook. The recipes are rated from "one spoon" to "three spoons" to let you know the level a skill that will be used with that particular recipe.  The other evening, little Emily was going to come over and stay with grandpa and I for a little while and she asked if we could cook something together out of her cookbook. Of course, I said yes! She let me know what ingredients that I would need to have on hand. She chose a pasta salad recipe.  Emily was able to slice the cheese with a butter knife, snip the basil, do the tossing, add the seasonings and all I had to do was cook the pasta and slice the tomatoes with a sharp knife. The salad was very delicious! Since we were going to be eating dinner anyway, we turned the night into a little dinner party with more family members. We added pork chops and watermelon to round out the meal. We tried to add rolls, but unfortunately we discovered that my oven is broken and we couldn't bake the rolls!  Here is Emily helping to form the rolls that couldn't be baked! Luckily, Maddy was able to take the rolls home and bake them there to share with her roommate, so they didn't go to waste. Everyone pronounced the meal delicious and a wonderful time was had by all! Emily went through the cookbook with me and showed me what she had already made. I was amazed at the fun ideas that are in it that will encourage kids to cook. Emily is so proud of all that she has done. Some of the recipes do require cutting. So far Emily has only cut things with a butter knife. Alicia has taught her 9 year old son to use the claw hand so that he can safely use a sharper knife with supervision. Amazon does have some knife sets that are safer and made for teaching younger children how to handle them.  Set for younger children  I like this set for older children. It comes with a guard to protect their fingers and the hole in handle for gripping seems like a great idea to protect the cutting hand as well. Emily forgot to bring along her apron when she came to my house to cook. But, it does my heart good to know that she and my other granddaughters that I've made aprons for enjoy using them! Here is the link to the simple pattern for these cute aprons.  Emily has grown into hers since this picture was taken! If you make cooking fun, soon your kids will have the confidence to create great recipes on their own! Remember these posts from my 13 year old granddaughter?
My grandchildren are so cute and I could post all of them all over this page! I hope you will take advantage of this great activity with your kids and grandchildren and help them learn so much in a fun way! Pick up the Cooking & Baking Class Set to get yourself started! One piece of sweet evidence that I have that kids love cooking with their parents and grandparents is a special card made for me by my granddaughter Amelia. Her mom asked her to draw something that she likes to do with Grandma. She drew a picture of the two of us baking cookies! I loved it! Here are a few other kids cooking posts! This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! I'm so excited to get my Fall garden going this year! I can't plant until the weather cools down a bit, but I can get prepared. I need to see what seeds or transplants I need. I need to decide where everything will be planted. I will have to amend some soil and get the garden boxes ready. There are so many things to think about! I decided that what I really needed was a garden journal that will help me prepare, plan and stay on a budget. I looked at various garden journals online, but either they didn't have exactly what I wanted or they were expensive. So, I decided to create my own! While I was at it, I decided to put it in our Etsy Shop and make it available to everyone.
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchased made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support!  It is still in the hundreds here in Phoenix, but I am so ready for Fall to get here that I actually turned on my oven WAY earlier than I usually do. I got the idea to make this banana bread with maple syrup instead of refined sugar, plus use up some buttermilk that I had in my fridge. The resulting quick bread is just perfect for Fall and will be a great loaf to share with friends and family. I just posted about these No-Sew Bread Cozies and promised you this recipe. So now, if you make the cozies, you can make a new bread recipe to put in them as gifts or simply serve your bread in on your table! The only sweetener is the maple syrup! Lower glycemic than sugar and with more vitamins and minerals, you can call this bread healthy! If you love maple flavor, you will love this bread. I used a little maple extract to enhance the maple flavor, but you can leave it out or use less or more, the flavor is up to you. Truth be told, real maple syrup is pricey, so if you have a hankering for this bread and you don't care about using sugar, (or corn syrup actually), Mrs. Butterworth will work just fine in this recipe. So, you have that option. Whether you use real maple syrup, or imitation, that maple flavor goes just great with the bananas in this bread.  Banana Maple Buttermilk Bread is moist, rises very beautifully and makes a big loaf. As a matter of fact, I made one 9 x 5 inch loaf, plus 2 mini loaves in this pan, from this recipe. This is a perfect way to have a loaf for your family and to gift some little ones to friends. The banana/maple combo with the tang of the buttermilk does make this loaf feel special, so it makes a nice gift. I baked the mini loaves for about 30 minutes. So, adjust your time according to what size pan you use. This bread makes a great breakfast, or is delicious as a snack. I love to smear butter all over it! I think you will like it as well. Here is the recipe!  Other breads that you may love:
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