#scratch cooking

[healthilyathome]

Homemade Hot Cocoa

This is the recipe my great grandma made and taught my grandma, who taught my mom and me. Every time we visited my grandparents or great grandma this cocoa was made for breakfast.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of cocoa powder

Dash of salt

1/3 cup hot water

4-6 cups milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon burned sugar flavoring (optional)

Marshmallows

Directions:

In a large pot combine sugar, cocoa powder, salt and hot water. Mix until a paste forms.

Heat on low heat until the paste becomes a syrup, stirring often.

Slowly stir in milk and flavorings and continue to heat until desired temperature. DO NOT SCALD.

Add marshmallows and serve.

Notes:

I don't buy burned sugar flavoring, instead I heat the cocoa and sugar until it's sticky before adding water. This will cause the sugar to crystalize a bit when you add the water (even if it's boiling). Just keep stirring. Once you have a good syrup, add the milk as directed and keep stirring in any bits that may have stuck to the bottom or sides.

Just the sugar, cocoa powder, salt, and water makes homemade chocolate syrup! You can scale up the recipe if you'd like to keep some homemade chocolate syrup around for chocolate milk, ice cream, coffee, whatever you use it for.

If you have leftover, this makes the BEST chocolate milk I've ever had.

Feel free to customize if you like caramel, or mint, or any other kind of cocoa.

[flowerseasoning]

Made myself a pretty little salad for lunch today 💚 it’s sort of like a poke bowl but mostly veggie

[gargelyfloof118]

It's gumbo time baybee!! I'm excited! It's been a while!

[callmemrscarter]

My husband had a bite of my cooking tonight and said “them hands gettin’ real dangerous in the kitchen, girl!”

And I can’t stop thinking about how I want to be pregnant again immediately after this pregnancy 🥰

[flomuffin]

Soop

[its-jackiemcsoup]

Making chicken soup again. A couple adjustments but HEY!!! It came out good the first time, hopefully it’s even BETTER this time 😂😋

[grumpywagon]

[scubakite]

I attempted to make crepes.

Overall, it was successful, though the first couple were.... not successful. Practice makes perfect, I just need practice.

It's filled with strawberries, raspberries, and whipcream.

[sirgavvainet]

The camp cook 👨‍🍳

[ashley--nicole]

I make a pretty pie if I do say so myself.

[healthilyathome]

Weekly Groceries

I thought it might be helpful or interesting for others to see an example of how you can handle groceries each week. We have two adults eating. I make as much as I can from scratch, and starting this month we'll be going gluten free. I meal plan every week so I can catch weekly sales and then we typically get groceries either Saturday or Sunday morning. I don't usually plan the meals for specific days, I pretty much just make a list of my options to choose from everyday. I don't usually need to buy every ingredient for every meal since I try to keep a well stocked kitchen. Things like spices, sauces, and condiments are only bought as needed. The grocery list in the post is a list of the actual items I bought this week.

This week's meal plan:

Chicken and Biscuits (we're actually having this tonight lol)

Honey Sriracha Chicken

Burger Bowls

Chicken Parmesan

Chicken Stir Fry

Tacos

Grocery List:

Chicken breasts

Ground beef

Eggs

Milk

Butter

Spinach

Frozen mixed vegetables

Tomato sauce

Apple cider vinegar

Raspberry jam

Gluten free bread crumbs

Gluten free pasta

[pitch-and-moan]

Ladles and Jelly-spoons

The Hallmark Channel's first attempt at an off-holiday film concerns the start of soup season, in which an uptight Campbell's executive who HATES home cooking ends up falling for the owner of a local diner who makes everything from scratch.

[gargelyfloof118]

It's a good day for a mug full of chicken noodle.

[zan0tix]

Iconography

[xxplastic-cubexx]

hey can you guys watch them for a second

[kandavers]

first kiss!