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Five Delicious and Easy Recipes for Wild Mustang Grapes and One to Never Make

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Check out these five delicious and simple recipes for wild grape. Plus one recipe you should NEVER try with wild grapes!

***Scroll down or click the gray button for all the FREE printable recipes!***

Can you guess which one is the stinker?

Wild Mustang Grapes make delicious juice and jelly. The flavor is tart, sweet, and bright. It’s a favorite in our house.

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If you’ve never tried Wild Mustang Grape juice or jelly, you’re missing out!

Check out my post all about Wild Mustang Grapes.

You’ll find tips on how to identify, pick, and cook them, plus a free recipe printable!

Watch out! They can cause an intense itchiness on your skin if not handled and prepared properly. But it’s SO WORTH IT!

Best grape jelly BY FAR and my favorite out of any jelly at all.

***If you don’t have access to the wild grapes, you can substitute any juice/jelly you like for these recipes.***

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The Best Mesquite Cookies By Far | Mesquite Bean Flour Recipe

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Learn how to bake these Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Mesquite Cookies. They are chewy but soft, packed full of flavor, hardy, and delicious!

Nathan and I spend some seasons going on bike rides every morning. Currently it’s too hot unless we have a goal in mind.

Lately we’ve been biking around, looking for ripe mesquite beans to pick.

You can read all about Honey Mesquite Trees, where to find them, how to pick the beans and how to make the jelly HERE.

Watch the video here!

Honey mesquite beans are what we have in our area and are supposed to have the best tasting beans and they make delicious jelly! Check out my jelly recipe HERE.

Only pick beans off of the tree and never off of the ground. I go into detail about why that is in my mesquite jelly post.

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Honey Mesquite Beans | How to Make Mesquite Jelly

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Honey Mesquite Beans are awesome! Whether you make “poor man’s honey”, hearty Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Mesquite Cookies, or just enjoy the shade – these “trash trees” are well worth your time!

mesquite bean jelly in a mason jar

Always Use Caution in the Wild

As I’ve said before in my other foraging posts, always use caution when eating things in the wild.

Do your research and carefully compare pictures and descriptions of whatever you’re wanting to pick and eat, BEFORE you put anything in your mouth.

The nice thing about mesquite trees is they’re easy to spot and the beans are very unique looking so you should have no trouble identifying them correctly.

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How to Make Fast Sheet Pan Meatloaf for Dad. It’s Easy!

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Great meatloaf doesn’t have to take hours to make. With this method you can have dinner ready, from start to finish, in under an hour! Savory, juicy, and delicious! Plus the leftovers are just the right shape for awesome meatloaf sandwiches too!

*Scroll to the bottom for the FREE PRINTABLE RECIPE!**

Sheet Pan Meatloaf is perfect for Father’s Day! It’s such a yummy, comforting dinner. It’s a crowd pleaser, simple, and doesn’t take a long time to bake.

We also had Nathan’s parents visiting so I wanted to make more food but not have it take forever!

Watch the video! I included a slideshow of some of my favorite pictures of Nathan with our kids and his dad.

Father’s Day For Me

My parents divorced when I was around 5 years old because my dad was a pretty awful person by that point.

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Mulberries in the Wild | Foraging for Berries | Mini Tarts

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Mulberries are a delightful summer berry! They’re juicy, sweet, and picking them is a fun family activity! Learn all about mulberries in this post and try out TWO DELICIOUS RECIPES: Mulberry Ice Cream Sauce and Delightful Mini Mulberry Tarts!

**Scroll to the bottom for the FREE Printable recipes!**

3 different shades of mulberries
These are all mulberries!

**A word of caution really quick**

Identifying mulberries is not very difficult because there aren’t a lot of berries that look like them but always use caution when picking and eating ANYTHING in the wild.

Make sure you always check and compare pictures of the leaf shapes and the berries so you know you’ve identified things correctly.

Watch the video to see how to make the mini tarts and watch us hike around!

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Agarita Berries | How to Make Homemade Pop-tarts

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Agarita berries are tart, sweet, and interesting to pick. Learn how to make simple, homemade pop-tarts using the Agarita berry jam – or whatever filling you like!

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Our family had a lot of fun picking these berries the last couple of weeks. We learned about them over the winter and have been patiently waiting for the berries to ripen enough to harvest.

We ended up picking a bunch of under ripe berries but we just couldn’t wait any longer! Foraging for berries is one of my favorite things to do!

If you wait until they’re all red, you’ll get a prettier color for your juice/jam/jelly.

**Stayed tuned for the upcoming video on my Youtube channel: Good Enough and Stuff.

red agarita berries in a cluster

***There are a lot of berry bushes out there that are not safe to eat so it’s important to be sure you identify a berry correctly. If you can, find a person who has eaten them before and have them point it out to you.

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What Do Agarita Berries Look like?

I like these berries a lot because they’re pretty EASY to identify.

The berries are bright red and grow in clusters.

The leaves look a lot like holly leaves – stiff, grayish green, and spiky at the points.

The leaves also grow in groups of three, all stuck together at the center.

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Easy Bunny Cakes | Cake-Mix Hack for a Last-Minute Easter Treat

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Learn how to make these Easy Bunny Cakes! They’re perfect for Easter, birthdays, or just a good weather treat! I’ll show you how to make the big cake and the mini cupcake versions in this post.

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Check out the video!

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Our Christmas Heartache | How I Coped with My Miscarriage

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*This blog post contains sensitive material about my miscarriage that might be upsetting to some people. I’ve tried my best to speak carefully and be thoughtful but the experience is close to my heart and worth sharing, even though it’s a delicate, provoking subject.

Please know that I share this out of love.

This blog post is mostly the transcript for the video I made about my miscarriage experience.

There are some differences.

You can watch the video here:

Hey, My Name is Jessica.

In December of 2021, I had a miscarriage.

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How to Make Triple Layer Key Lime Cookie Bars | St. Patrick’s Day Dessert

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These triple layer cookie bars are awesome! They’re chewy, crunchy, sweet, tangy (that’s the cheesecake fluff on top), and the perfect treat to share for St. Patrick’s Day this year!

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There are three delicious layers to this cookie bar and they’re all so good you could eat them separately.

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Let’s start with the topping.

Cheesecake Fluff for Cookie Bars

You might remember this topping from my Rainbow Cheesecake Cookies. I used different types of Kool-aid to flavor the cheesecake fluff and I paired it with a cinnamon cookie.

It was delicious, zippy, and tangy. You can check that post out HERE.

They tasted like sherbet!

While I was experimenting for that recipe, I realized I could use lime drink mix powder and make it taste just like Key Lime Pie Filling.

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Here’s How to Make Some Delicious Fish Tacos!

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Fish Tacos are refreshing, filling, and so delicious! They’re a great, healthy choice for dinner and you’ll have even picky eaters asking for seconds!

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two fish tacos with seasoned fish and vegetables

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Our whole family enjoys when we have fish tacos for dinner. Even our guinea pig, Georgie, likes fish taco night – because he gets the vegetable peels.

He always looks this alarmed.

This is my husband’s recipe. He is a better cook than me, by far. He just understands how different spices and flavors go together and likes to experiment.

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