This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support. I grew up living out in the country. It was so great. I wish my kids could have had that lifestyle in some ways. For one thing, I knew where my food came from. We gardened and raised chickens and sheep. We sold corn 12 ears for a $1.00 on the side of the road. We sold eggs for 50 cents per dozen. Our family didn't have cows, but our neighbors did and we were often the recipients of delicious fresh milk. My mom would skim off the cream and we would pass the container around shaking it to make butter, just like the pioneers. That was some delicious butter. Lately, I've seen some ideas for making flavored butters as gifts to enjoy with various crackers and breads. Most of those recipes used butter purchased in the store, softened with herbs, etc. added to it. That seems nice. But, to me, if you are going to "make" a homemade gift, then it should really be homemade! Butter is super easy to make and you don't have to shake the cream forever to turn it into butter! I mean, that can be a lot of fun as a family activity to teach your kids how butter used to be churned. But, with modern technology, like a stand mixer, making butter happens much more quickly! Here are the steps to make your own butter: I then decided to make one of my little bowls of butter into a flavored butter. I knew that Honey Cinnamon would go fast around here. But, you can flavor your butter in a savory way as well. To make the Honey Cinnamon Butter, I put the butter back into a larger bowl to mix in the ingredients and continued to squeeze out buttermilk (without adding it to the jar of course) as I mixed it. Here is the recipe: I'm not going to pretend that this butter is less expensive than store bought butter because it is much more expensive to make. But, it does tasted so good and fresh! Also, as a gift, it is just a little extra effort that will be appreciated. Or, if you just happen to have a chance to get some fresh cream from a friend with a cow, then making your own butter will be very cost effective! Plus, these kinds of projects are so good to do with kids so that they can learn where their food actually comes from. After packaging the butter and making the Honey Cinnamon Butter, I got onto Avery.com and used some of their cute stock ideas and customized and printed some labels for everything. This will be especially important to do when making flavored butter gifts. Have you made butter with your kids? They will get a kick out of it! Here is the link to the Lit'l Bowls by Tupperware. I also found them on Amazon. (See Below)
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This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase after clicking them, we will be compensated, but there is no additional cost to you. All opinions expressed are our own. Thank you for your support One family member, my son's mil, Anita, is always so supportive of our blog. She is so talented and always has ideas and inspiration for our blog! This past Christmas, she sent me a yogurt strainer. She showed me her results of making yogurt in her Instant Pot and where she found the recipe. I got so excited thinking about all of the things that I can use this strainer for and for all of the things that I can do with the yogurt. Unfortunately, I discovered that my Instant Pot Lux does not have the yogurt setting. But, I knew that before there were Instant Pots, people still made yogurt. So, my search began for a way that I could make yogurt without an Instant Pot. I found many ways! I used a combination of those ideas and experimented on my own, as is my way. Guess what! My very first experiment was a great success and it was so easy that I can't believe that I haven't been making my own yogurt all along! I made a video of myself making my very first batch of homemade yogurt! Watch it, and then I will list some highlights to help you make your own yogurt without an Instant Pot as well! Whelp, now you know how I look in the morning. Here are a few highlights to remember:
In a few days, I'll share the recipe for my lemon blackberry cheesecake that I made with this homemade yogurt! There will be a few other things to come as well! Here is a shoutout to Anita for getting me excited about making yogurt! It is such a satisfying feeling to make something that is successful, delicious, versatile and money saving! Let me know if you give it a try. If you enjoyed this post, you may enjoy these as well:
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In our family, we love handmade gifts. I actually peruse and search throughout the year for things that I can make that my family members and friends will love. We have shared a bunch of ideas over the years of our blogging lifetime. I've gone back and found 30 of my favorites to put on this list at your fingertips so that with a click you can find great idea after great idea to gift to your own family and friends.
I've divided these gifts into 6 categories: wood, sewing, crafts, food, home & personal, and computer generated. There is something for anyone at any skill level to make!
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The pockets of jeans are one of the most diverse parts of your jean's style. They can be totally blinged out or just plain or anywhere in between. There are so many ideas out there to repurpose the pockets from your old pair of jeans. I chose to do this cute pocket purse for 3 reasons:
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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