Delicious as an alternative to tuna or cheese sandwiches made with bread in hot summer months, stuffed tomatoes are a delightful gluten-free alternative to other appetizers and sandwiches. Try large beefsteak tomatoes for main courses, smaller romas for sides, and cherry or plum sizes for appetizers. Ingredients for Stuffed Tomatoes Recipe 6-large round tomatoes cut in […]
Homegrown Potato Soup
If you have potatoes from your garden to use you will appreciate this potato soup recipe. A family-heirloom recipe that Rachel spent years perfecting for her husband you will want to try it. Many of the ingredients can be found right in your backyard garden, or farmer’s market. “It took me about 7 years before […]
Pasta With Summer Vegetables
Eggplant, summer squashes, and other delicious summer vegetables take center stage in this simple but oh-so-delicious pasta dish. Roasted vegetables have an amazing flavor, which makes this pasta dish amazing, as well. Lisa says, “I recently shared that I used to think I didn’t like eggplant (can’t even remember why I had that in my […]
Hearty Potato Salad
Potato salad is a classic summer dish for good reason. It’s YUMMY. And it can be a full meal if you want, or served as a cool summer side dish. You will rule the church pot-blessings with this recipe! 🙂 Heather says – I recently talked my mother into giving up her potato salad recipe. […]
Sweet and Spicy Squash Coleslaw
We are all too familiar with cooked squash recipes or adding raw zucchini to dishes, but have you ever experimented with adding raw summer and fall squashes to salads and other dishes?
Peach and Feta Summer Fruit Salad
Check out this great recipe that partners sweet peaches with tangy feta cheese and crisp radishes. Brilliant!
Homemade Mint Limemade Summer Drink
Is there anything more refreshing than a cool summer limeade or lemonade? And this version uses fresh mint, which you can easily grow straight out of your garden! “This mix is super easy to throw together and can literally be made in 5 minutes. It’s the perfect addition for any barbecue or summer dinner.” See […]
Veggie and Potato Creamy Goulash
Summer vegetables and a plentiful potato harvest means a great opportunity for some summer vegetable and potato goulash. At least – that’s what we called it at my house. I’ve also heard it called goop, hash, or as this recipe developer called it – hodge podge. Whatever term you give it, this recipe is brilliant. […]
Stuffed Eggplant Rolls for Simple Healthy Snacks
I’ve been looking for a good eggplant recipe for awhile – I mean eggplant parmesan is fabulous, but it’s a lot of work for me to make an involved dish — and you can only do Italian dishes three or four times a week before the rest of your family starts to complain. 😉 That’s […]
Delicious Homemade Zucchini Bread
One of the best ways to use zucchini from the garden is to make delicious bread out of it. The great thing about making a bread recipe like this one is you can double it or triple it to fit the amount of zucchini of you have to use. I used zucchini in my […]
How to Make Rhubarb Pie with Homemade Crumble Topping
Rhubarb pie seems to be a flavor from out of the past. And one of my favorite things at Untrained Housewife is seeing those old-fashioned memories brought to life for future generations. That’s why I love this recipe from Jenn about making your own homemade rhubarb pie with a kids-will-love-it crumble topping. See how she […]
How to Roast Butternut Squash
Butternut squash is a simple to grow squash that is a favorite with many home gardeners because of the sweet, nutty flavor. If you open your CSA box and find a small-to-medium, light brown squash in it, chances are that’s a butternut squash. But what to do with it? That’s exactly the question that gets […]
















