Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap Recipes

I'm truly interested in making my own laundry soap, so I did some more research online. I found a detailed recipe with more information about the ingredients, consistency, and cleaning results from the homemade laundry soap.

My washing machine is a front loading high effeciency machine, and the website goes into more detail about using the laundry soap in an HE machine. For the informative page I found go here: Making Homemade Laundry Soap by Crystal Miller.

Duggar Family Laundry Soap Recipe

I just love watching the Duggar family. In case you aren't familiar with the Duggar family, they have a their own television series on the discovery channel. They are the large real life family with 18 children (nineteen children, now that their son Josh is married). I accidentally came across their family recipe page and found a recipe for laundry soap. I can't wait to try it out. The recipe for Homemade Liquid Laundry Soap - Front or top load machines is located here: Duggar Family Recipes It's super inexpensive for a batch and for the front load washing machines, one recipe makes enough for more than 600 loads of laundry! That's a lot of laundry.

Easy Home Baked Bread GMA Recipe

I have been thinking about baking bread, but I don't look forward to kneading it. So this morning, when I watched Good Morning America's segment featuring a no knead bread dough, I was excited to see there are easy methods to baking bread at home.

I wanted to save the link for future reference and figure other people might be interested in learning to bake bread too. Save Money Bake Bread At Home - No Knead Bread Dough Recipe

I am excited to try this! I'm sure it's fabulous, since it's a recipe from Chef Sara Moulton, but I'll write a review later. If any of my readers have tried this recipe, or have another one, please post a comment with your review. Thanks!

Amish Friendship Bread

The other day I was at my daughter-in-law's home. She had little plastic bags of dough on her table, and a couple of loaves of freshly baked bread on the bread board. 

This is not normal bread dough, it's more like batter. It's called Amish Friendship Bread. The loaves of bread aren't like sandwich bread. This is a dessert bread.

The idea behind Amish friendship bread is much like the yeast starter that is passed around from homemaker to homemaker. 

Of course, I now have my own batch of starter.  Oh wait. No! It's been several days since I first received my baggy of dough. Now I have several batches of starter to pass out to my friends! That stuff grows in Ziploc bags right there on my kitchen counter. While the loaves are baking, the house smells amazing.

My Amish bread batter came with directions to make Amish friendship bread. You can find the copy I have on this website: Amish Friendship Starter Dough. The instructions are simple and very easy to follow along day by day.

Party Planning

I'm preparing for a little party we have coming up, so I'm looking for some good recipes that aren't the usual party fare. In other words, I want to impress my family of food snobs.  I tried a really good Chipotle dip recipe and I'm going to add it to the menu. It's so yummy with a slightly spicy and slightly smokey flavor. I loved it!

On the same website I will try a few more of the recipes in the near future. In The Kitchen Recipes has been added to my bookmarks for future reference.

Easy Creamy Chocolate Frosting Recipe

I found a super easy creamy chocolate frosting recipe, and it is so good and creamy this recipe is going into my permanent recipe file. Mmm!

No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Bars

Mmmmmmm! I had to  try these no bake chocolate oat bars. During the hot summer months I don't like to use my oven very often. We don't have an air conditioner so it's not wise to use the oven and heat up the kitchen. So I'm always on the lookout for great no bake recipes. These are ooey and gooey with layers of chocolate peanutbutter with a fudgy layer.