I LOVE making my own homemade spice blends! They add so much personality to my cooking, and I can avoid extra sugar or additives that come in commercially packaged seasoning blends.
Below you’ll find all of the homemade spice blends I posted on Perry’s Plate. In each of the posts you’ll find ideas and recipes to use the blends. They all contain easy to find herbs spices — most of which you probably already have!
I love making homemade spice blends! You can customize them how you want and honestly, it makes me feel super cheffy to use a blend that I made myself. Here are our favorite ones that I always have on hand! I also included links to recipes that use these blends so you can get cooking …
If you’ve been using the same old jar of pumpkin pie spice for years and years, it’s time to upgrade! Making your own is so easy, and I’m willing to bet you already have the ingredients in your cupboard.
If you have trouble finding garam masala in the grocery store it’s easy to make your own blend! I included directions for grinding whole spices or using pre-ground.
If you’ve been following along for a few years, you’ve probably tried my Homemade Taco Seasoning. It’s one of the oldest and most beloved recipes on my site. (If you haven’t — you should. It’s the best basic homemade taco seasoning you’ll use! I know several of my readers have gifted it during Christmastime. Yep.) …
Homemade Steak Seasoning is one of those staple recipes I’ve been using for 10+ years, but never posted. Why? I figured everyone had a steak seasoning they liked and maybe the Internet didn’t need another version. But almost every time I mention steak seasoning on Instagram, someone asks me if I make my own and …
I’ve been talking a lot on Instagram about a gut healing protocol I’ve been doing — similar to Auto-Immune Protocol (AIP). (But not the same.) The idea is to remove foods that commonly cause inflammation in the body or are triggers for a lot of people to allow the gut to heal. Why? Lots of …
Italian seasoning is pretty straightforward, right? Why make homemade Italian seasoning? It’s usually a blend of 4-5 herbs. No fillers or sweeteners or weird ingredients. As far as seasoning blends go, it’s pretty clean. So, why bother making it? Because the regular stuff is boring. There. I said it.
Chai spice, if you’ve never had it, is like the exotic, more interesting cousin to pumpkin pie spice. I’m not quite tired of pumpkin pie spice, but after making homemade chai spice, I think my pumpkin spice might be pushed to the back of the cabinet this year. I’m not sure why it took me …
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