Homemade

In this day and age we are so spoiled to running to the store for everything. Anything we need, we can find pre-made, pre-packaged, and sometimes individually wrapped for convenience. It is nice for some things, but it is not nice once we go to the store and our particular store is out at the time of what we want.

It’s all good! Make it at home! Crackers is the name of the game today. I love saltines. They go with soup, fish or chicken salad, and many more things. I love them with cream cheese spread. I love them with peanut butter and honey. Well, I decided to try my hand at cracker making. There was a learning curve, but it was definitely fun. My daughter and I made 2 batches each cut in half with different seasoning for each. One batch was whole wheat, and one all-purpose flour only. For the first one we only salted the surface before baking. For the second I used a tablespoon of ranch seasoning. For the whole wheat first batch, my daughter put in cayenne, garlic, and basil; and the second batch she put some honey and cinnamon. We found out that with whole wheat we needed to add more seasoning to get it where we wanted.

The ranch were our favorite flavor out of these that we tried. Even the plain ones were delicious and we enjoyed them with what we had left of our fish and rice. We will be munching on these for this week! I do believe a pasta machine would be a plus for this recipe though. We could not get them all the same thickness, and some of them we just rounded and squished with our hands. Those were good as well.

CRACKERS HOMEMADE
half whole wheat and half all-purpose OR 100% all-purpose
Seasoning (optional)
Oil and water
Mix dough. Divide into 2 balls. Rest 10 minutes.
Roll out into very thin sheets. The thinner the better.
Bake 15 minutes turning at 6 at 400 degrees.
2 C flour
1/4 C Olive oil (we used vegetable oil)
1/2 C water
Experiment with seasonings.

Rough recipe is above. I ended up needing to add a little oil and water each time, probably because I rounded the scoops of flour. So, just measure evenly. But if you don’t it is ok. Just make the dough where you can round it into a ball and it isn’t sticky anymore.

This time with my daughter wouldn’t have been had if we had just bought that box of crackers. It’s such a simple thing. Such a special thing to make things homemade. Easier than you think. I just did a quick search on a couple of recipes. If you found this, you could also research a recipe for anything! Nearly.

Homemade is special. It is worth it. It is fun memories. It is new experiences. Take the leap! Try it. The worst that can happen is you waste some ingredients. (and the has happened to me) but we learned how not to do it when that happened and still got the work together time and fun memories!~ You can too.