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  • Foodie Friday Featuring I Thee Cook

    Foodie Friday Featuring I Thee Cook

    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 ——>
    What a week! I made some delicious lunches this week, and took some amazing photos (that’s not too braggy right?) – but I’ve also been dealing with sick kids and now a sick husband. Fingers crossed it skips over me, but if it doesn’t then I’ll spend my sick time in bed viewing all your awesome recipes!
    This week’s Feature:

    I Thee Cook

    Come meet Rina – author, photographer, mom, and blogger behind I thee Cook. To really get to know Rina, you’ll just have to spend some time reading her posts (Hey Rina…I’d love to see an About me Page!). She takes some beautiful pictures of food that always tempt me. 

    Just take a look at what she shared last week. Such variety!

    Smothered Three Cheese Chicken Parmesan

    Stuffed Sweet Potato Skins

    White Bean and Tuna Salad

    Connect with Rina

    Google Plus *  Pinterest  *  Instagram

  • Foodie Friday Featuring Cooking on the Front Burner

    Foodie Friday Featuring Cooking on the Front Burner

    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!)
    It’s a new month and that means another Foodie Friday Newsletter!!  If you are not signed up to receive the monthly newsletter, you can do that over there —->
    Recipes with the most clicks from each week during the month are featured in the newsletter, plus any food related posts you may have missed here on Home Maid Simple. 
    This weeks Feature

    Deb is the blogger behind Cooking on the Front Burner. While reading about her food journey, I was taken back to my mothers kitchen and the well used and loved Joy of Cooking cookbook – the first cookbook Deb purchased when she moved to college. 
    I love visiting Cooking on the Front Burner each week as Deb shares some tantalizing recipes with photo’s that almost let you taste the food!  Just take a look at these Limoncello Cupcakes, Lemon Chicken Stew, and Minty Shamrock Cheeseball!
    Limoncello | Cooking on the Front Burner #limoncello #lemoncupcake
    Lemon Chicken Stew | Cooking on the Front Burner #lemonchickenstew #dinner
    Minty Shamrock Cheeseball | Cooking on the Front Burner #stpattysday #shamrockdessert
    Please take a moment and say Hi to Deb! You can find her on these social media outlets
  • Foodie Friday Featuring The Crafting Foodie

    Foodie Friday Featuring The Crafting Foodie

    Welcome back to another 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!)
    This week’s Feature:
    Aida, blogger and recipe creator behind the Crafting Foodie, started blogging as a way to remember her recipes, and share them with all her friends and family who constantly wanted her recipe. She is also a stay at home mom to two little girls. 
    I was really excited last week when Aida shared her recipe for Grasshopper Cupcakes. I always get a little nostalgic when I see chocolate topped with a minty frosting. One of my childhood friends mom’s liked to make brownies with a mint frosting on top, and they were divine. 
    Thanks so much for sharing with us Aida!!  I enjoyed looking through her archives and look forward to seeing more recipes.
    Grasshopper Cupcakes for St.Patricks Day The Crafting Foodie
  • Foodie Friday Featuring The Grant Life

    Foodie Friday Featuring The Grant Life

    Welcome back to another 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!)
    This weeks feature is
    Kelley, mom of 2, won me over last week with her recipes. Not only did she share an amazing recipe for Salted Caramel Cheesecake Cups, but she also talked about how her tastebuds need a couple tried before liking something like Sushi or Hummus! I felt like we were just meant to be friends reading that post. 
    While browsing through The Grant Life, one thing Kelley mentions in her about me page is that she “schedule(s) my blog around my life and not the other way around.” This hit me hard, because sometime I schedule my life around my blog, and those are the times that everything seems to fall apart. How can I blog about things you want to read, if I’m not out there really living it?  Thanks Kelley for that reminder!  
    On to the recipes! Please head over to The Grant Life to get the recipes and pin them!
    salted caramel cups
    Salted Caramel Cheesecake Cups
    roasted red pepper hummus
    homemade rosemary and sea salt french bread
    Also check out her list of Must Have Kitchen Gadgets and How to Start a Vegetable Garden posts!
    Connect with The Grant Life
  • Foodie Friday Featuring Jodie Fitz

    Foodie Friday Featuring Jodie Fitz

    Welcome back to another Foodie Friday
    Happy Valentines Day!
    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!)
    This weeks feature is

    Jodie Fitz is a wife and mother of 3. I absolutely love how she describes herself  “5% Martha Stewart, 20% Erma Bombeck and 75% Lucille Ball; but at the end of the day I am 100% ME!”  You can read more on why she chose those 3 over on her blog. 

    Last week Jodie shared some really fun and easy recipes with us.  My chocolate milk usually consists of milk and nestle chocolate syrup. Jodie’s chocolate and strawberry milks take a tad bit more time (but really hardly any at all), and sound just so much better!  

    If you are still planning a Valentines party for this weekend, or need a quick card to send with your kids to school like RIGHT NOW! check out her Chocolate Mustache and free printable card. The card can easily be sent without the chocolate mustache for you late minute planners. 

    Chocolate and Strawberry Milk

    Seriously, no syrups involved here!!

    Chocolate Mustache and Free Printable

    I hope you are all having a fabulous day of love. Love for your spouse, love for your kids, and a little love for yourself as well. 

  • Foodie Friday Featuring Life, Love & Sugar

    Foodie Friday Featuring Life, Love & Sugar

    Welcome back to another 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!)
    If you haven’t signed up for the Foodie Friday Newsletter yet, you can do that on the right hand side —-> Just enter your email, and you’ll be good to go! The next installment will be coming out next Friday!
    It was a pretty slow week around here. On Monday I had a headache like I’ve never experienced before that just took me out. The rest of the week I’ve been spending my time helping the kids with Science Fair Projects. We were researching Butterflies and Fish. Let me tell you, that was a lot of fun! I just wish I could have been with them as they presented it to the judges today.  
    Some cool new things though around here – if you scroll way down to the bottom of the page you’ll find a new bar for the Daily Meal!  I’ve joined up with their Culinary Content Network. I feel I’m going to learn a lot from the other amazing bloggers in the network, and be able to bring you all better content. Wahoo!  So go check them out!
    If you missed my only other post this week – I’ll just send you to look at it now. Help me raise awareness for Project HEAL and eating disorders. You can look forward to guest posts and educational info on eating disorders. Isn’t that exciting?
    So enough about me!  Let’s take a look at our Featured Blogger this week!
    Meet Lindsay – blogger behind Life, Love & Sugar. Her sweets call my name every single week!  It’s hard not to start baking up a storm after looking at her photos. Lindsay loves sugar, and making dinner, and being crafty. I got a kick out of reading through the Fun Facts she has on her site. Just to give you a fun idea
    • she’s eaten an entire Funfetti/Rainbow chip icing cake on her very own…in 48 hours! 
    • She would be a dolphin if she could for a whole day. Because dolphins rock!
    • One of her favorite things is waking up on the beach from a nap.  So jealous that you can do that Lindsay! 

    Last week Lindsay shared 2 very delightful looking recipes with us – Reese’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake and Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting. Check them out!

    Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
    I feel this recipe needs the word Loaded in there. It is loaded my friends, and I want a piece right now!  

    Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
    I’m sold on anything that is topped with cream cheese frosting. Don’t you just love this photo?


  • Foodie Friday Featuring Meatless Mediterranean

    Foodie Friday Featuring Meatless Mediterranean

    Welcome back to another 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!)
    Phew, what a crazy and fun week it’s been! Last week I launched the monthly Foodie Friday newsletter. I hope many of you received it and enjoyed the look. If you’d like to sign up you can do that here, or over in the side bar.  For those of you that did get one, I would love some Feedback! What did you like? Didn’t like? Do you want me to tell you if you’re going to be featured in it?
    Today alone has been a rollercoaster of a ride. It was going pretty good, until right when I started to work on this post. Then my husband calls to tell me he got a call from our bank about some possible fraud. Yep, sure enough someone thought $900 in starbucks was a good purchase to make using our card.  People, we don’t drink Coffee, which means just about any Starbucks purchase is going to look suspicious (though I admit I do like their caramel apple cider). Anyways, so when I was supposed to be writing this, and making my family dinner, I was on the phone getting it worked out with our bank. Fingers crossed there’s no problem in returning our money. You can expect a post on lessons learned about identity theft in the coming month. 
    Enough about me – today I want to feature a long time Foodie Friday participant – Please welcome Mary from 
    Mary is a Philadelphia based writer that specializes in gourmet cooking from the Mediterranean regions of Spain, Greece, Israel, France, Morocco and more. As her tag line says “a vegetarian diet doesn’t have to be boring!”  
    Although we aren’t vegetarians, it also doesn’t mean we don’t like to cut out our meat periodically either. If you read last week’s feature, you’ll know I’m seriously falling for some tasty vegetarian looking meals, that aren’t just sides!  I have loved visiting Mary’s site over the years, and trying to recreate her delicious looking recipes at home. 
    Last week she shared a more traditional recipe for garlic bread, and I have to say, I’m going to try it!  No garlic salt, no loads of butter. Just some bread, a little oil and real garlic. 
    This is an older recipe Mary shared with us last year, but one I just love! Her soups always look delicious. 
    Connect with Mary 
    Facebook    *   Twitter

  • Foodie Friday Featuring Amuse Your Bouche

    Foodie Friday Featuring Amuse Your Bouche

    Welcome back to another 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!)
    Last week, I announced a monthly Foodie Friday Newsletter. It is almost completely finished, and you should be receiving the first of 12 newsletters in 2014 sometime between when this goes live and Friday night. Currently, if you have linked up to this party within the last month, you will already be on the mailing list (don’t worry unsubscribing is easy, if you don’t want to receive it), if you are fairly new, or have been gone for awhile, you can sign up on this form
    On to our feature.  This week I’m really excited to share with your a returning blogger to our Foodie Friday Party. I kid you not, I was drooling over her photo’s the other night. Please welcome and say Hi to 
    Becca pulled me in first with her blog name – Amuse Your Bouche. If you don’t know, Bouche is French for Mouth. I love the French language, and Becca’s play on words mixing English with French I found delightfyl. 
    Becca herself lives in the UK with her fiance and pet rats (really Becca, rats?).  She has a beautiful eye for good food, and takes some stunning photo’s of them. I never would have guessed Vegetarian foods could look so good…all the time. 
    Yep, that’s right, Becca is a vegetarian, and for the month of January she joined some friends in a Vegan challenge (giving up her cheese!). I think these recipes she shared though, will please anyone, vegetarian or not.  Take a look, and then don’t forget to go Follow Becca and amuse your own bouche!
    Amuse Your Bouche on
    Coconut oats with brown sugar bananas
    Start your day off with some Coconut Oats with Brown Sugar Bananas
    Who here has ever had brown sugar bananas? no? me either. They sound amazing though!
    Avocado chickpea salad
    For lunch why not have an Avocado Chickpea Salad? 
    Yes, I did just go to the store to pick up some avocados so I can make this. 
    Smoky coconut and butternut squash soup
    Finally warm up your night with some Smoky Coconut and Butternut Squash Soup.  
    This is happening. Oh yes. 
    Peach melba Eton mess
    I didn’t feel right leaving you with just the 3 meals Becca shared, so I dove into her Recipe list, and found you a dessert to round out your day. Enjoy some Peach Melba Eton Mess
    Now if you don’t see me around the cyber world this weekend…just assume I’m lost inside Amuse Your Bouche. I mentioned her recipes, and photography, but do me a favor and read everything she write too, because she is witty, and fun, and someone I want to be friends with!
  • Foodie Friday Featuring: Life With The Crust Cut Off

    Foodie Friday Featuring: Life With The Crust Cut Off

    Welcome back to another 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!)
    Before we get to the feature today (and oh my, I’ve got some good recipes to show you!), I wanted to let you know about something new coming to Foodie Friday – a Newsletter specifically for Foodie Friday. It will be a monthly letter, to remind those linking up to come on back as well as for my readers looking for awesome recipes. It will also be featuring some of the most clicked recipes each month – this means extra links to your website! 
    Alright onto our feature!
     
    Parrish is the author behind Life with the Crust cut off. Just reading her about page really gives you a good feel for who she is, and what Life with the Crust cut off is all about. Parrish tells it like it is without sugar coating life, and I love that. Last week she shared a couple of really delicious recipes. Go ahead enjoy these recipes!
    Connect with Parrish
    Peppermint Cookies & Cream Milkshakes #HolidayReady #shop #cbias
    The photography is just stunning here, but I bet it tastes even better! 


    Double Peanut Butter Cookies
    Seriously, just yum. 

    Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies
    I’ll admit, meringues are not my favorite cookie, but I think the chocolate chips might be just what I was missing. 

    Buffalo Chicken Tenders #shop #cbias
  • Foodie Friday Featuring Organizer by Day

    Foodie Friday Featuring Organizer by Day

    Welcome back to another 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!)
    This week I’m Featuring 
    Elizabeth from Organizer by Day
    About Me!
    I fell in love with Elizabeth’s fun, and probably crazy, idea of frying cinnamon buns, but it makes so much sense!  Turning them into reindeer, just added to the fun. It wasn’t until I clicked over to her Easiest Chocolates Ever, that I knew I’d be featuring her today. Chocolate, caramel…you will sell me on just about anything with that combo. 
    Elizabeth begin baking in 2008 when she met her now husband. They have been married for just a little over 1 year now. Elizabeth began Organizer by Day to share organizing tips, but she quickly learned she has more of a passion for food.  When she’s not in the kitchen, you can find her teaching Zumba, playing on the Ipad, or diving into a book. 
    Check out her recipes below, and say hi!  
    Elizabeth’s favorite post is her 20 Crockpot Meals under $10. What a great resource for this busy and cold time of year!