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Welcome to Milk Glass Home!
This blog takes you behind the scenes in my suburban homestead. Here, I share tips to help anyone, anywhere, live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. You’ll find lots of tips, recipes, and projects to help you cook from scratch, reduce your waste and slow down.
I love sharing food preservation projects, desserts, tasty side dishes, and delicious home-cooked meals to help you nourish your family!
Slow down and live within your means with my slow living tips and DIY projects. They’ll help you live in alignment with the seasons and get hands-on at the same time.
If you’ve been craving a slower, more self-sufficient lifestyle, you’re in the right place!
cooking from scratch
Make your own custom recipe binder!
Preserve your family’s most cherished recipes for posterity with this printable, editable recipe binder! There are customizable category pages, binder covers, labels, and two recipe card templates, all set in a timeless, rustic style.
It would make a wonderful gift to share with your family!
Seasonal Slow Food Recipes
As a passionate home cook, I love to share seasonal recipes to help you explore your own creativity in the kitchen! The best part is that you don’t need a ton of space to bake the best apple crisp or even start canning!
I’m especially passionate about using homegrown or seasonal ingredients and preserving food. These are a great way to look at your ingredients differently and preserve fresh flavors for later!
Spring Recipes
Savor the tender greens and delicate flavors of spring with these seasonal recipes.
Summer Recipes
Fill your plates with the brightest and freshest flavors of summer.
Fall Recipes
Enjoy summer’s bounty with heirloom tomatoes, peppers, squash and more.
Winter Recipes
Cozy up with the hearty squashes, roots, and greens of winter.
Suburban Homesteading for Beginners
Intentional Self-Sufficient Living
Latest from the Blog
DIY Projects
Food Preservation
Preserve the harvest to enjoy all year long with these recipes! Learn how to freeze, dehydrate, can, and infuse everything from the garden and beyond.
Latest from the Blog
5 Ingredient Roasted Cherry Tomato Soup {Small Batch}
Made with just a handful of simple ingredients, this roasted cherry tomato soup is incredibly easy to make and so delicious!
Easy Sourdough Pumpkin Muffins
Put your extra sourdough starter to use and make a batch of these moist, tender sourdough pumpkin muffins! Made with real homemade pumpkin puree, warm spices, and sweet sugar, this is a delicious way to celebrate fall (and play around with sourdough at the same time)! It’s that time of year! When the temperatures start…
Easy Demerara Syrup Recipe for Cocktails & More
Add a decadent caramel flavor to your iced coffee or cocktails with this homemade Demerara syrup recipe. It’s incredibly simple to make yet adds so much flavor to any beverage! What is Demerara Syrup? Demerara syrup is a sweet syrup made from Demerara sugar, a natural cane sugar that undergoes minimal processing. Demerara sugar is…
Air Fryer Cornbread {From Scratch}
If you need cornbread quickly and don’t want to heat up the whole house, you’ll love this easy air fryer cornbread recipe!
Green Chile Cheese Scones
These green chile cheese scones come together lightning fast and have the perfect buttery, flaky texture to match their cheesy, chile flavor.
Where to Find the Best Organic Honey (2024)
Are you looking for the best organic honey that is equally delicious as it is healthy? Learn about the benefits of organic honey, the different types and varietials available, and what makes a specific type of honey the “best” in the market. Have you ever looked at a honey jar in the store and wondered…
GREEN cleaning
Slow living
Ready to simplify and slow down? These posts about slow living and simple living are will help you do that in no time!
