cooking from scratch

gollywollypog · July 2013

Y'all. Homemade flour tortillas. Easy as all get out. Pioneer woman's recipe. YOU WILL NEVER GO BACK TO STORE BOUGHT TORTILLAS EVER EVER AGAIN! okay?

What stuff do you make from scratch?

Mrs. Rohde · July 2013

Cookies, brownies, cakes, some sauces. That's it.

SJandVA · July 2013

Not all the time, but I like making homemade marshmallows. Yummy!

jodegaard · July 2013

Homemade tortillas are my lyfe!

Everything I make is from scratch. But I'm drawing a blank on what things most people don't make from scratch.

Megispreg · July 2013

Um, nothing? I never bake. If I use sauce, it's from a jar. I even buy the bagged lettuce! DD is not one to entertain herself for very long, so I regret nothing. Maybe when she goes to school, I can be more Martha Stewarty.

Edit: I don't want it to sound like we're eating Dorritos for dinner or something. Most of our meals are meat and veggies. Maybe some pasta or quinoa. So there's not much to really make. But yeah, if we're having tacos or something, I'm just going to buy the shells.

JayandEmm · July 2013

Cookies, cakes, pies, pancakes, biscuits, stuff like that. I make most pasta sauces, hot sauce, etc.

I have never made tortillas, but DH's family makes them a lot.

AutumnLeaves2 · July 2013

Bread, granola bars...pizza dough, pasta sauce and soup! I want to start making most thing from scratch, though! I will never go back to store bought granola bars.

AutumnLeaves2 · July 2013

Bump burp. .

Crossingfingers · July 2013

I make nothing from scratch. Seriously.

Pancakes from the freezer section and prego spaghetti sauce. I do not enjoy cooking and I feel like since the kids are being fed, I don't care if it comes out of a bag or whatever.

rp-chicago-mom · July 2013

Most things. Bread, pasta, most sauces, stock, cakes, cookies ...I don't regularly make homemade tortillas but want to. The corn ones are even easier.

ccam · July 2013

I would never think to make my own tortillas....seems time consuming!!

I make my own sauces, dressings, all baked goods are from scratch.... I think that's it.

CoUnTryBB1 · July 2013

Pretty much as much as I can. I do spaghetti sauce in the can most the time just because I don't have the time for it. Pancakes always from scratch milk flour baking soda salt and butter easy peasy. Most baked stuff from scratch and I freeze broth for everything. My favorite is homemade jelly.

AprilAngie · July 2013

Anything I can, I try to, HOWEVER with 4 kids, Im not baking bread and making tortillas, although maybe I should be.

I do try to be as healthy as possible though, so homemade soups, homecooked dinners, no "boxed" dinners" homemade cheese cake and muffins.

also, share this tortilla receipe PLEASE

lady_tytah · July 2013

I cook allot for scratch. Pancakes, cakes, brownies, cinnamon rolls ;], I have made bread but About doesn't allow me the time, rolls [my yeast rolls are awesome], biscuits, lots of home cooked dinners, muffins, cupcakes, fry jacks, chips [banana]....I lover cooking. I think that has helped allot with my weight gain from stoping pumping.

WhimsyGirl14 · July 2013

Please share your tortilla recipe! The last one I tried was a fail.

My husband and I trade off on things, but we pretty much make everything from scratch. If it's too complicated We try to find an easier recipe. We don't use canned bases for soups anymore - used to use the cream of ____ but have just found new recipes. We make our own bread, cinnamon rolls, bread rolls, etc.

We bought land and grow our own vegetables, and next year we'll start to get chickens and down the road more animals. We just enjoy it.

WhimsyGirl14 · July 2013

Was it this one?

https://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/05/homemade-flour-tortillas/

gollywollypog · July 2013

Whimsy I think that's the one! On mobile. They were a huge success! I used a cast iron skillet., no oil. I think that was the trick.

gollywollypog · July 2013

nobadwriting:
I try to make as much as possible from scratch, especially sauces. I haven't figured out Alfredo sauce yet so that's still from a jar. I do buy almost all of my breads because I'm no good with yeast, but I make amazing dessert breads no yeast. Pumpkin and banana are my specialty.

girl! Butter, cream or half and half, and a crap ton of parmesan cheese. Stir until thick. That's the easiest Alfredo concoction and it makes the jar stuff taste like puke. Try it! And yeast is so not as hard as you think, I promise!

alake · July 2013

Cookies, salad dressing (depending on what kind), stuffing. I try to make as much from scratch as possible. I like knowing what is going into my kids.

I mill my own oats and make oat flower. I don't use wheat flower when I bake.

CLeigh03 · July 2013

Just looked over her recipe as I'm having a taco party tomorrow night and I'm impressed. To me, it does not seem 'easy!' Pretty time consuming....but I might just have to motivate myself to try......

gollywollypog · July 2013

CLeigh03:
Just looked over her recipe as I'm having a taco party tomorrow night and I'm impressed. To me, it does not seem 'easy!' Pretty time consuming....but I might just have to motivate myself to try......

CLeigh, it does take some planning ahead. Most of the time is just waiting. BUT!! If you heat your oven just for one minute so it's warm but not hot and let the dough rest in there you can get by with just 30 mins instead of an hour on the first go round. That's what I did. Also, I didn't have lard or veg shortening so I just used vegetible oil. They were killer, I'm telling you.

CLeigh03 · July 2013

gollywollypog:
CLeigh03:
Just looked over her recipe as I'm having a taco party tomorrow night and I'm impressed. To me, it does not seem 'easy!' Pretty time consuming....but I might just have to motivate myself to try......
CLeigh, it does take some planning ahead. Most of the time is just waiting. BUT!! If you heat your oven just for one minute so it's warm but not hot and let the dough rest in there you can get by with just 30 mins instead of an hour on the first go round. That's what I did. Also, I didn't have lard or veg shortening so I just used vegetible oil. They were killer, I'm telling you.

Thank you so much for the advice - if my day allows, I think I'm going to try - eek!

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