cooking

Uncategorized

The Green Earth Pan from Ozeri

*I received free product in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts are 100% my own.* After talking to the people behind Healthy Child Healthy World, I’ve been a little more conscious about what chemicals we are exposing our family to.  It wasn’t until Ozeri contacted me that I hadn’t taken a second thought to […]

Read More
Uncategorized

Craftsy Online Classes On Sale

Have you ever wanted to learn something crafty, but don’t have the time? There have been so many classes I’ve wanted to take, to enrich my life, and learn something fun and new. As a mom, though, I can’t always get away for those things, or they cost too much, or I don’t live close […]

Read More
Uncategorized

Foodie Friday – Basic Cookie Mix

Foodie Friday Hosted by Home Maid Simple and Cohosted by Simple Living With Diane Balch Every friday we will share a recipe on our blogs. At the end of the post we encourage you to link up your recipes! Let’s get cooking! I was looking for a Peanut Butter Cookie recipe the other day, and […]

Read More
Uncategorized

Menu Plan Monday 12/5

What’s on the menu this week? Link up or find a ton more great ideas over at Organizing Junkie. I felt the need to use some pinterest inspired recipes again, this week (did I mention I think I have a pinterest problem….I might need intervention). Monday – Spaghetti. Mark has parent teacher conferences today, so I […]

Read More
Mock Raspberry Jam and other things to do with Green Tomatoes
garden Preserving

Mock Raspberry Jam and Other Ways to Use Green Tomatoes

The growing season is ending, but you find yourself with an abundance of green tomatoes still! What do you do with them? Make this mock Raspberry Jam of course. This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated when you click on and make a purchase through them. One of my first years gardening as […]

Read More
Uncategorized

Fried Apple Peach Pie

It must be the weather, or the closeness to Thanksgiving, but I’ve started craving pies!  I had one problem, I didn’t want to go to the store, but I only had one can of peach pie filling and one can of Fried Apples.  I decided to throw caution out the door (as I often do […]

Read More
Uncategorized

Book Review: Feeding the Dragon

Feeding the Dragon: A Culinary travelogue through china with recipes By Mary Kate Tate and Nate Tate My thoughts: I LOVED this book! Looking at the cover and title was good enough for me to want to pick it up. I have a few other cookbooks that are country specific with some history in them, […]

Read More
Uncategorized

Whole Wheat Banana Mango Bread

Originally this would’ve been my Tuesday tip, but it’s now thursday. Life gets busy when you’re trying to move!   I went late night shopping with my neighbor yesterday.  She shops sales, and pretty much has prices memorized. So she KNOWS what a good deal is.  We left the kids at home with the dads, […]

Read More
Home

Simplify in the Kitchen with a Bread Maker

What tools make cooking simpler for you?  Do you have a favorite kitchen gadget you can’t live without?  How about the most useless tool in your kitchen?  Maybe something you like to use, but takes up way too much space?   I love the kitchen, it’s probably my favorite room in any given house.  I […]

Read More