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  • Foodie Friday Featuring Kleinworth & Co

    Foodie Friday Featuring Kleinworth & Co

    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, every first friday of the month, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    This weeks Featured Blogger
    Gina is the blogger behind Kleinworth & Co. She is a wife to a Fire Chief and mother to 3. I know I say this about so many of you, but I just love looking at the photo’s on her site. They’re enough to tempt me, and make it to my NEED to make this list. It’s a long list…. the Black & White Fudge Pops I know are headed to the freezer this weekend. 
    Besides recipes, you can also find photography tips, and DIY/Crafts from Gina. Just browse the top bar on her website for easy navigation. 
    Now enjoy these desserts Gina shared at last weeks party – 
    Black & White Fudge Pops
    Churro Bites
    Blueberry Pie Filling
    Keep up with Kleinworth & Co.
    Google+  *  Instagram  *  Pinterest


    These recipes received the most clicks from last weeks party – don’t miss them!

    Mac N Pimento Cheese from Miz Helen’s Country Cottage
    Greek Bean Salad from Culinary Flavors
    Ginger-Garlic and Lime Chicken Thighs with Escarole Salad from Living the Gourmet




  • Foodie Friday Featuring Memories By the Mile

    Foodie Friday Featuring Memories By the Mile

    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    Next Friday is newsletter day!
    Just a fun little update on me – this week my parents gifted me a ticket to visit my brother in New Hampshire. So for one week I get to go hang out with my nephew and nieces (and their awesome parents), before they move to Belgium. YAY! 
    And on that note – in an effort to continue reconnecting with each other, despite the distance between us all, we’ve started a Video Blog…err Vlog! You can come view us in real life time at The Greene Grass Grows. We get silly, serious, and maybe a little boring at times if you’re not part of our family. Most updates will happen every Saturday there. 
    And the mention of that leads into why I chose our featured blogger this week – my baby brother has challenged us to eat something spicy once a week. He must think we’re wimps or something. So I’m on a search for spicy recipes – hook me up!
    This weeks Featured Blogger
    Memories By The Mile

    Wanda Ann has been sharing recipes with us on Foodie Friday for quite some time now. She also hosts her own Treasure Box Tuesday link party that you should all join in if you’re not already. A fun fact you may not know about Wanda Ann – she is a mother, grandmother, but also a truck driver! Together with her husband they travel the country making Memories by the Mile.
    Last week Wanda Ann shared her recipe for Chipotle Turkey Wrap. It of course caught my eye as something I need to try for this spicy challenge.  It sounds like it’s got the right amount of heat but in a wrap so it’s perfect for summer. I’ve been browsing Memories by the Mile for more spicy recipes to share with you, and hopefully inspire you to try a little more spice as well. Here’s what I’ve found – 
    Chipotle Turkey Wrap
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    Connect with Memories by the Mile
    Most clicked on recipes from last week:
    #1 Wanda Ann’s Chipotle Turkey Wrap
     Healthy Potato Salad
  • Foodie Friday Featuring Roxy’s Kitchen

    Foodie Friday Featuring Roxy’s Kitchen

    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    So we’re going to try and do something a little new around here, but we’ll see how well I can keep up with it. Along with the featured blogger each week, I’ll be sharing the most clicked on recipes from the previous week’s link up. Diane and I truly appreciate how big YOU have made Foodie Friday, so we want to get you as much exposure to our readers as we can. We can’t always make it to every recipe with comments, but we do try and pin, and I’ve begun sharing more on facebook as well. I hope this is helping you all out, but if you’d like to see something different, please send Diane or I an email or leave us a comment, and we will do our best to make this party fun for you. 
    This weeks Featured Blog
    Roxy grew up in Romania, and moved to Toronto when she was 19. I love that she considers herself an amateur chef at home – aren’t we all? Some though like Roxy are extremely talented at cooking, while also being able to make the food look fabulous. 
    Currently Roxy is focusing on making recipes with 5 or less fresh ingredients. I absolutely fell in love with her photo’s for the 4 Ingredient Creamy Pineapple Berry Smoothie. You may have seen me share it over on Facebook, because wow! I need to get out to the store and get the ingredients for it this weekend. 
    Check out these fabulous recipes Roxy shared with us. 
    Creamy Pineapple Berry Smoothie
    Sweet Potato Soup
    For baby’s and adults!
    Connect with Roxy’s Kitchen

  • Foodie Friday Featuring Erica’s Recipes

    Foodie Friday Featuring Erica’s Recipes

    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    I’m so excited today! I got a package from my dear mother in law, who is currently living in Japan. I got an email one day asking if there was anything we’d like, along with some pictures of some purses she had found and wanted to know if I would like one. So I responded telling her I’d love anything to enhance my food photography. Thinking she might send me a cute little plate or bowl. I was NOT expecting the large package that arrived on my doorstep today – Check out the dishes on Instagram. My current first world problem is I have nowhere to place all these lovely dishes. I think a china cabinet is now needed. 
    This weeks Feature is:
    I haven’t spend a whole lot of time on Erica’s blog before, but last week she shared a Zucchini, Black Bean and Corn Taco’s recipe that caught my eye. I  happened to have a fresh zucchini on hand, and everything else is a staple in this house, except the Feta cheese. Wow, just wow! Please check it out and give it a go. My kids cleaned their plates with minimal complaints, and some even had 2nd and 3rds!! 
    Zucchini, Black Bean, and Corn
    So now I’m a total follower of Erica, and I need more of her healthy meals that my kids are going to eat up. I did some browsing and found these – enjoy!
    Random Veggie Pizza from EricasRecipes
    Healthy Week: Lunches 6 {Salmon, Cucumber, and Greek Yogurt Salad}
    Connect with Erica


  • Foodie Friday Featuring Rustic Peach

    Foodie Friday Featuring Rustic Peach

    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    April’s issue is out this Friday!!
    This weeks Feature is
    Rustic Peach

    Liz is the owner, writer, baker and photographer behind the Rustic Peach blog. When I visit the Rustic Peach I feel transported in time to simpler days, where family and good food are the main focus of every day. 
    Take a look see, and enjoy these delicious  pics, then head to over to Rustic Peach for the recipes. 
  • Foodie Friday Featuring Creative K Kids

    Foodie Friday Featuring Creative K Kids

    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    This weeks Feature is 
    Creative K Kids

    I don’t remember where we first “met” but Tammy and I have become online friends through our blogs and social media. I love seeing what she shares each week, and also linking up my recipe to her Tasty Tuesdays Party. Tammy and her husband have 4 girls, all starting with the letter K, and one boy. They love to cook and craft and share those creations with us through their blog – Creative K Kids. 
    Last week they shared a delicious and easy recipe for Green bean Fries. I’m pretty sure this would be a great way to trick my kids into eating the beans. 
    Recipe for Green Bean Fries
    Follow Tammy on Social Media
  • Foodie Friday Featuring Raia’s Recipes

    Foodie Friday Featuring Raia’s Recipes

    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    My week:
    So we’ve been on Spring Break this week – I thought I would get a lot of housework done and playing with the kids – but boy have I been slacking!  It’s just been one of those crazy weeks. It started with my brother coming home from his 2 year LDS mission to Boston on Monday. We met them at the airport Monday night with lots of hugs and excitement. Tuesday I was worn out, so I don’t know what I did. Wednesday was Prince L’s birthday, so we did a lot of train playing and outside running. Today I’m at my mom’s helping her garden. We’ll have it all planned out, and maybe a few seeds planted by the time you’re reading this. Friday we’re doing a family party for Prince L. Saturday is my cousins daughters Baptism, at which I’ll be speaking – nervous! And Sunday will be spend with my family at church where my brother will be speaking on his mission experiences. It’s really a great week though! Just busy. Hope you’re all having a great week too
    This weeks Feature is:

    When I go to a new blog, one of the first things I love to do is learn more about the blogger. I don’t know what it was exactly, but I want to be Raia’s friend for life. We’re pretty different – I am terrified of a home birth, I don’t have any food restrictions, and I actually love to cook (it’s the cleanup I hate!) – but I think there was one thing she said that really made me want to be her friend 

    “The most import thing about me? I firmly believe Jesus is the Messiah. Coming to this realization was the most amazing thing that ever happened to me.”

    Me too Raia! Oh and I also have 4 kids – 3 girls and a boy, so we’re kind of alike there too 😉

    Raia jumps out to me as being upbeat, friendly, and loving to all. When I get that feeling after only a few seconds on a blog, I know I’m going to be sticking around – hopefully we can be friends Raia!  Most of what Raia will post is Gluten, egg, and dairy free, and a lot of it will also have chocolate.  Check out what she shared with us last week, and then remember to connect with Raia and say hi!

    I am so in love with smoothies. I don’t do them terribly frequently because I hate cleaning the blender, but at least once a week I indulge
    Carrot Cake Doughnuts by RaiasRecipes.com
    Come on, you know you like moms that give into their kids on a Saturday night and make healthy-ish doughnuts for dinner!


    Connect with Raia’s Recipes
    Facebook  *  Twitter  *  Pinterest

  • Foodie Friday Featuring It is a Keeper!

    Foodie Friday Featuring It is a Keeper!

     
    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    Newsletter goes out today!! Sign up to see who’s been featured

    Anyone use a local service to purchase your produce? We recently signed up with Winder Farms and I am just loving the new veggies we’re getting delivered to our door. We tried YELLOW beets this week – they were pretty amazing.
    This weeks Feature is
    I am so in love with Christina from It’s a Keeper! Her site is so friendly and inviting, it makes me feel right at home browsing through her recipes. 
    I was so excited to learn the Christina is a Field Editor for Taste of Home magazine. Taste of Home was the first food magazine I subscribed to (and the only one) but it is what gave me my passion for cooking. I throw a myriad of parenting magazines away every time we move, but my Taste of Home follow us everywhere. 
    When visiting It is a Keeper! make sure to start with the “New? Start Here!” tab. Christina’s laid her site out for you in an easy to follow way, with Quick Dinner Ideas, Video Tutorials, Meal Planning, and my personal favorite section Cooking with Kids!!  
    Enjoy these gems she shared with us last week on Foodie Friday – 
    30 Minute Cheeseburger Soup from It's a Keeper
    30 Minute Cheeseburger Soup
    The weather is getting warmer here, but the nights are still chilly.
    Easy Salmon Recipes Sweet Teriyaki Salmon
    How sweet is Christina? So sweet this is actually guest recipe she shared with us! One I want to make for my lunch.
    Easy Dessert No Bake Caramel Pie from It's a Keeper
    Thank you Christina…from the bottom of my caramel filled heart…THANK YOU!

    Please take a moment to visit Christina and follow her on Social Media
  • Foodie Friday Featuring Lydia’s Flexitarian Kitchen

    Foodie Friday Featuring Lydia’s Flexitarian Kitchen

    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    I feel I’ve slacked in sharing recipes with you lately. I don’t know how some of you post so many recipes all the time, you are absolutely amazing! I had planned to be sharing an Easter Cheesecake with you this past week, but despite some pretty pictures, it was not a fabulous cake. So I’m still tweaking it. Maybe next week. In the meantime….
    This weeks Feature is:
    Lydia's Flexitarian Kitchen

    The first question I had to ask myself when visiting Lydia’s site is “What is Flexitarian?”  Thankfully she sums it up in her about us section as “semi-vegitarian style of eating”. I learned something new. I have really been enjoying myself as I browse through the recipes at Lydia’s Flexitarian Kitchen. She and her husband share the kitchen, while she cooks most of the sides and he makes the main dishes. I love seeing families in the kitchen together (currently my husband and 7 year old are in the kitchen making our dinner).
    After checking out her Old Fashioned Lemon Pound Cake and Wake Up Oatmeal Cups, I suggest browsing through her 5 Weeks of Flexitarian Eating posts. It looks like a lot of great info in there. 

    Old Fashioned Lemon Poundcake ~ Lydia's Flexitarian Kitchen
    Wake Up Oatmeal Cups ~ Lydia's Flexitarian Kitchen
    Thanks so much for sharing a bit of your kitchen with us Lydia!  
    Follow Lydia’s Flexitarian Kitchen
  • Foodie Friday Featuring Love Food, Will Share

    Foodie Friday Featuring Love Food, Will Share

    Welcome back to Foodie Friday.
    I would love it if you took a moment to visit my co-host Diane at Simple Living and Eating. 
    If you’re new to Foodie Friday, here’s the run down
    1. Link up your recipe or any food related post below
    2. Browse the linky, visit some new blogs, and share if you feel so inclined. 
    3. Please only link up 3 posts. This lets us visit as many of you as possible.
    4. By linking up you give me permission to feature your photos on Home Maid Simple (always linking back to you of course!)
    5. Each month I send out a newsletter with the most popular links from that month – you may be featured!!  This is a once a month newsletter, no spamming involved. Sign up over there ——>
    Happy Spring Everyone!! I hope the weather is warming up in your neck of the woods. 
    This week’s feature is:
    As soon as I clicked over to Kay’s site last week I knew I was going to be staying awhile. Kay lives in Wisconsin and has experience canning, and freezing produce from her husbands garden. I love coming across ladies like Kay because they have the experience and knowledge and are willing to share it with us!  
    Enjoy these recipes from Love Food, Will Share – shared on last week’s Foodie Friday. I’m pretty sure you can combine all 3 of these into one awesome dinner!
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    Pre dinner snacking anyone?

    mashedwords3
    The perfect side to a filling dinner

    bbqbeefwords2
    Another reminder I still need to replace my slow cooker. 
    Don’t forget to follow Kay and Love Food, Will Share