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Join me, Stefanie, as I adventure through marriage, parenting, learning the homestead life, and feeding my family. There will be love, laughs, chaos, and Jesus along the way!
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Cast Iron Skillet No Nut or Seed Sourdough Granola
Having tree nut and coconut allergies often makes finding healthy, homemade recipes for snack foods and baked goods challenging. Coconut oil and coconut flakes are used as healthy fat and flavor alternatives, and nuts are such powerhouses of protein, healthy fats, and other beneficial attributes, so when you start searching for “healthy recipes”, most will…
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Working Mom Home Management Ideas
Due to being a working-out-of-the-home mom of 4 (almost 5!) kids, I often get questions like “How do you get everything done?” and “How do you do it?”. I find it ironic since often the women who are asking me these things have multiple kids themselves. I always think, “Well, the same way you did…
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Venison Cheddar Sausage Sheet Pan Meal Recipe
I am all about quick, make ahead meals on weeknights. The big kids have school, my husband and I work outside of the home, and there are sometimes one or two Mom Taxi jobs in the evenings. I have seen others prepare sheet pan meals that are then easy to just pop in the oven,…
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Garlic Rosemary Lemon Roasted Chicken
The phrase “Sunday dinner” immediately brings to my mind a meal of either pot roast or roasted chicken. I feel like these are stereotypes brought in from television shows and movies, but also true within my families growing up. Sundays are days for Jesus, family, and relaxation, and I have really grown to enjoy spending…
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Easy chocolate chip cookie bar recipe
Is there anything more wholesome and comforting than a chocolate chip cookie? I have a random memory of watching Sesame Street episode as a child that showed a girl going to her grandma’s house after school, and they baked chocolate chip cookies together. The sound the spatula made on the cookie sheet when taking the…
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Slow Cooker Butter Ranch Parmesan Potatoes
Being from northern Minnesota, where it is winter more often than it is not, I love good comfort food. Often this translates into “served hot and involving a lot of butter”. I also have potatoes we harvested from our garden last fall to use up, so I am always trying out new ideas for them.…
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