Make your home smell amazing with a fall simmer pot recipe. This simmer pot is easy to make and has spices and fruits that will fill your home with a delightful autumn scent. It's 80 degrees outside and we have the air conditioner running, but I'm still moving on to fall. Fall is my favorite season. I love the smell of the crisp air and the cooler temperatures. I also love the scents of fall. It's when pumpkin, apple, cranberries, and spices like cinnamon and cloves get their time in the spotlight. I used to burn candles obsessively. I don't anymore because of asthma, but I miss the scents. I do make my own wax melts with essential oils, but I also use this fall stove top potpourri recipe sometimes. I work from home, so I have plenty of time to make things like this. Otherwise, it's a great recipe to use when you're expecting company.
Learn how to make Instant Pot vanilla extract with bourbon or vodka. Instead of waiting 6 weeks for your vanilla to infuse, now you can make vanilla in just two hours. Every fall for the last ten years, I put out a reminder for my friends to start their vanilla for their holiday baking. I keep mine going all year, but I usually restart it in the fall because I use so much of it. In ye olden days, making vanilla extract took six weeks to fully infuse. Now thanks to the miracle of the electric pressure cooker, you can make Instant Pot vanilla extract in two hours plus cooling time. Yes, that's right. Two. Hours. When I found that out, I ran straight to the liquor store to get both vodka and bourbon and ordered new beans from Amazon. We go through a crazy amount of vanilla because my daughter and I both bake a lot. This made 6 cups, so I am giving my step mom a cup of each the vodka and the bourbon vanilla extract.
Learn how to make pumpkin puree in an Instant Pot pressure cooker. This is quicker and easier than making it in the oven, and you can use the puree for desserts, soups, and other recipes. Several years ago, we planted pie pumpkins. I prepped them, baked them, and turned them into pumpkin puree. That Thanksgiving, we had the best pumpkin pie we had ever had. I couldn't believe how different the pie tasted made completely from scratch. Now, it's the only kind of pumpkin pie that my kids will eat. They turn their nose up at the canned stuff and for store bought pies. I used to make pumpkin puree in the oven. It worked, but it was a real pain. And I had to turn the oven on for almost an hour. It's nearly fall, but it's still 80 something degrees here. I don't want to have the oven heat up the house while I'm running the air conditioning. I love my Instant Pot, so this year I switched to making Instant Pot pumpkin puree. After the first batch, I decided
Learn how to can tomato juice at home. Use your homemade tomato juice to drink or in recipes for delicious soups and chili. Every year, I can tomato juice. We don't drink it as a juice, but I do use in other recipes. I always add it to my chili and tomato based soups instead of water. Making tomato juice at home is very easy. I've been making it for years with the leftover juice from making tomato sauce. You can make tomato juice two different wants. This is going to be long, but I'll explain both of them in this post. Use the method that makes sense for you and your needs. I would recommend using the cooked version if you are making it to drink since it will be thicker.
This soft pumpkin dog treats recipe has peanut butter, pumpkin, flax seeds, and chia seeds to help your dog's skin and coat. If you watch my Instagram stories , then you've seen Nacho, my chihuahua. He's most definitely a momma's boy. He sits beside me while I write, and I may or may not have bought an extra wide recliner just so the dog has room to sit beside me while I'm working. This easy dog treat recipe is grain free with coconut flour. This is great if your dog has allergies or a wheat intolerance. It has pumpkin, peanut butter, chia seeds, flax seeds, and coconut oil. It has no egg and no flour. Nacho recently went grain free, and it's really helped him. I bought him some grain free treats, but he didn't like them as much as his old treats. He really likes pumpkin, so I wanted to make him some a healthy grain free dog treat recipe for a snack. This recipe is full of ingredients that are good for dogs, like pumpkin, peanut butter, flax seeds,
