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    Home » Recipes

    Homemade Ingredients & Basic Cooking Techniques

    Making your own homemade ingredients from scratch is easy and budget-friendly, plus it helps you avoid all those additives and preservatives that come with in the jars and boxes found on grocery store shelves.

    Here you'll find recipes for easy homemade ingredients (e.g., enchilada sauce, caramelized onions, pumpkin spice mix), as well as basic cooking techniques (e.g., how to roast garlic, how to dice a mango) and reliable foundation recipes, like pourable pizza dough and pie crust, biscuits, and tortillas.

    • Homemade Flour Tortillas with Olive Oil
    • How to Make Homemade Hamburger Buns
      Homemade Hamburger Buns from Scratch – Soft, Fluffy, and Golden
    • Turkey brine aromatics in large stockpot: orange peel, ginger, peppercorns, apple cider, garlic, bay leaves, etc.
      Apple Cider Turkey Brine with Citrus, Ginger, & Herbs
    • Overhead shot of bowl of cubed butternut squash.
      How to Cube Butternut Squash (Without Losing a Finger)
    • Cut square of pizza as example of height and density of the easy pourable pizza crust.
      Easy Pourable Pizza Dough (No Kneading, No Rolling!)
    • Nine-panel collage showing images from rhubarb recipe roundup.
      15 Delicious Straight-Up Rhubarb Recipes (Plus Freezing Tips)
    • Oven roasted garlic cloves
      Oven Roasted Garlic Cloves
    • Small glass jar filled with habanero syrup, with one small habanero pepper sitting to the side.
      Habanero Simple Syrup
    • Block pottery bowl filled with diced mangos.
      How to Dice a Mango (like a Hedgehog!)
    • Pureed pumpkin draining in a cheesecloth-lined wire sieve.
      Homemade Pumpkin Puree
    • Homemade Enchilada Sauce
      Homemade Enchilada Sauce (Slow Cooker)
    • Oven roasted turkey on a platter, encircled with sage and garnished with orange slices and pomegranate arils.
      Simply Perfect Roast Turkey
    • Nut streusel strewn in foreground leading to a cut square of streusel topped coffee cake in the background.
      Nut Streusel Topping (Nusstreusel)
    • Caramelized onions on a sheet of parchment, with a frond of lavender on the side.
      Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions
    • Thick vegetable stock in a quart-size Mason jar. Raw carrots and a tomato at the foot of the jar.
      Hearty Roasted Vegetable Stock
    • Roasted garlic compound butter on serving board.
      Roasted Garlic Compound Butter
    • quart of chicken stock
      Hearty Homemade Chicken Stock
    • Mixed pumpkin spice in a glass jar, with some spread across a white plate.
      Homemade Pumpkin Spice Mix
    • Two biscuits on a plate. One sliced open and spread with strawberry jam.
      Perfect Buttermilk Biscuits
    • Slice of pizza with cornmeal crust on small plate.
      Spicy Cornmeal Pizza Crust
    • Easy Basic Sweet Vanilla Crepes
    • Quick Preserved Lemon Substitute
    • Unbaked blueberry pie decorated with lattice top and pie dough roses.
      Easy Pie Dough Roses (Pastry Roses)
    • Overhead shot of a bowl of sweet potato hash with two poached eggs on top. One egg yolk is broken and runny..
      How to Make Perfectly Poached Eggs
    • How to Make Rye Sourdough Starter
    • Classic Chicken Pot Pie
      Savory Herb Pie Crust
    • How to Pick a Perfect Watermelon
    • Unbaked, latticed topped blueberry pie, decorated with pie dough roses.
      Basic Sweet Pie Crust
    • All-Purpose Spicy Dry Rub

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    Hi, I'm Renée!

    Welcome to The Good Hearted Woman – a cozy corner of the internet where comfort food meets modern life. From heirloom recipes and easy weeknight dinners to seasonal dishes, homemade breads, and potluck favorites, we share the kind of food that brings people together.

    When we’re not in the kitchen, you’ll find us hosting guests at Parkside Acoustic Bed & Breakfast, our music-themed B&B in Ashland, Oregon – where good food and warm hospitality go hand in hand.

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      Everything Sourdough Crackers (Crispy & Buttery)
    • Whole Banana Cream Chiffon Cake on a stand, topped with whipped cream and banana slices. Slice of cake on small plate, showing fluffy layers, fresh banana slices, and whipped cream frosting.
      Bavarian Banana Cream Cake (Kienow's Copycat Recipe)
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      15 Classic German Recipes to Celebrate Oktoberfest
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