Homemaking is a big job. It requires the homemaker to have multiple skill sets and juggle more than we often give homemakers credit for. I remember as a child an older woman scoffing at someone who described herself as a homemaker, indicating to those present that the woman simply stayed…
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Mom’s Pasta Carbonara
Pasta carbonara is a favourite pasta of mine–and that’s saying a lot because generally speaking I don’t care for pasta. My parents are from Italy, and growing up we exclusively ate traditional dishes. Lots of pasta and sauce, lots of veal cutlets and lots of eggplant parmesan. We ate pasta…
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Easy Spicy Black Beans & Eggplant On Rice
Dear Readers, it has occurred to me that I have yet to offer some of my favourite recipes with you. Sharing recipes was definitely something I wanted to do, so I hope you’ll enjoy seeing recipes become apart of the Homemaker’s Stitch. This is a recipe I created when I…
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What is Cooking from Scratch in the Modern World?
A lot of people proudly proclaim that they cook from scratch. It’s much healthier to cook all of your own food rather than using pre-made, packaged food. But what is cooking from scratch? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself as I have been embracing homemaking as an act of…