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Weekend Bites: Warm Up with Soup

Welcome back to Weekend Bites. This week I’m staying warm with soup!

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Before Christmas we got a little snow. It lasted about 2 days before melting. Today it snowed another inch or so, but tomorrow’s forecast has nice sunny skies. I’ll be honest, I love me some snow. I know there are some people out there who don’t. The ones who would happily live in the south forever. Not me. Give me snow, please! I need more of it. The lack of cold weather I think has even started to take effect on my mood. So cold, or not, I’m cooking up soups the next couple of days. We’ll pretend it’s cold like North Dakota and Wyoming, with piles of snow waiting to greet us outside.

I’m curious, do you like the snow? Or do you live where it’s warm year round to avoid the cold?

Soup Features

Pozole Rojo
Just JP

Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup
Home Cooking Memories

Beef Stew
The Kittchen

Find more Soup Recipes on my Pinterest Board!

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January 5, 2017
Weekend Bites Thanksgiving Prep

Welcome back to Weekend Bites! This week we’re getting your home and kitchen ready for Thanksgiving.

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I love Thanksgiving! Partly probably because it is in the fall. Also because of the food. Mostly, however, it’s because of the wonderful memories that surround this holiday for me. Friends and family gathered together filling our home with love and laughter. It’s the feeling I’d love to always have in our home, no matter the occasion or person visiting. So when Thanksgiving rolls around each year, I can’t help but get excited, and start looking at ways to create those memories of love and joy for my own children.

I hope these ideas from our fellow bloggers will inspire you, and offer a little something to add the spirit of gratitude and love into your own home in the coming week.

Thanksgiving Features

Give Thanks Bunting
Lolly Jane

11 Keys for a Great Thanksgiving
Silver Foodie

Soul Warming Caramel Apple Wassail
Busy Creating Memories

Pumpkin Spice Whoopie Pies
Tastefully Frugal

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November 17, 2016
Weekend Bites Soups for Fall

Welcome back to Weekend Bites! This week featuring Soups.

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I woke up this morning to a chilly 34degree day. Half my kids bundled up in coats, scarfs, and gloves. The other half attempted to convince Mark and I that the sun was shining and that meant it was warm. It was a beautiful sunny day, but the temperature had dropped to that place where all I want to do is sit in front of a fire and eat some hearty soups.

I found these delicious looking soups in last week’s party and can not wait to give them a try! Especially the ones that uses cauliflower in place of cream – it’s brilliant! Which of these soups will you start with first?

FEATURES SOUPS

Roasted Red Pepper Brie Soup
Honey and Birch

Creamy Pumpkin Sausage & Kale Soup
My Life Cookbook

Nourishing Beef Stew
My Life Cookbook

Ham and Cheddar Chowder
The Mandatory Mooch

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November 10, 2016
Weekend Bites Fall Favorites

Weclome back to Weekend Bites! This week featuring Fall Favorites.

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Fall is in the air, and as my oldest likes to inform me so is her birthday. She was born on the fall equinox so it makes this an exciting month in our house. Fall happens to be my favorite season of the year, and it’s an exciting day to celebrate the birth of my first-born who turned me into a mother. I thoroughly enjoyed browsing the link-up last week and picking out these very fall inspired shares to feature. I hope you enjoy them too!

Fall Favorites Featured

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Mini Loaves
Gluesticks

Scarecrow Jar Craft
The Country Chic Cottage

Plum Cake with Nuts and Chocolate
Winnish

Fall Leaf Wreath
Old Time Pottery

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September 8, 2016
Weekend Bites Cookout Fare

Welcome back to Weekend Bites! School is out and I’m ready for a good old cookout! This post contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if you lick through and purchase.

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Now, I’ve always called a backyard get together that includes the grill a Barbecue. Talking with a friend here, I learned that around Indiana, and I’m guessing other states as well, they’re usually called a CookOut. Barbecue is reserved for a cookout where actual barbecue is served. It makes sense you know. I’ll still probably invite people over for a BBQ, and serve up hot dogs and burgers, and hopefully no one will realize that there isn’t any actual BBQ.

Looking through your recipes last week I realized just how excited I am to host some cookout’s this summer. The kids are officially out of school, today being there first full day home. It’s been pretty decent, but it was also Mark’s day off. So we’ll see how tomorrow goes, but we’re ready to invite friends over and enjoy some classic backyard foods. If you want to go with a traditional Barbecue, you can try this delicious looking BBQ Rub from the Country Chic Cottage. For those more inclined to burgers and dogs, this Smokehouse BBQ Burger from Delightful E Made looks fabulous, and stuffed with goodness!

You can’t forget the sides and desserts! Any good cookout will have homemade Coleslaw, and Little House Living shared an easy recipe for it. The Coconut Creme Ice Pops from Simply Stacie will wrap up dessert and a hot summer day perfectly.

How will YOU enjoy summer? Tell me in a comment.

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May 26, 2016
Weekend Bites: Hummus

This week I’m feeling inspired by Hummus recipes! Check out the collections below and you’re sure to find something to enjoy.

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When I started writing up this post and going through your recipes from last week, I had planned to feature some breakfast recipes. After all, it is Mothers Day Weekend. The more I looked, though, the more inspired I was by the variety of Hummus recipes shared. A few years back, and I tried hummus for the first time. I was less than impressed and decided I didn’t need hummus in my life. Fast forward to our move here and my sister in law always has hummus pulled out when we eat together. I’m never one to fully give up on something, so I gave it another try, and what do you know! It has become one of my favorite snack foods. Way better than veggies and ranch.

So the moral of today’s story is to never give up! Whether it be a food you don’t think you like or larger then life dreams. Give it time, and keep on trying. And have some hummus along the way.

Mexican Street Corn Salsa Hummus

from Lemons for LuLu

Easy Healthy Toddler Meals with Hummus

from Fab Working Mom Life

12 Hummus Recipes

from The Super Mommy Club

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May 5, 2016
Weekend Bites featuring Ali Roux

Welcome back to Weekend Bites! We’ve missed you! Come share your love of food and get to know another foodie – Ali Roux.

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This week I am so excited to share a new blogger, and fellow Foodie with you – Ali Roux. I have been enjoying my week browsing all of Ali’s recipes as well as her travel posts. See Ali has been living in Sweden, one of my favorite countries ever! One day I will visit the country of my ancestors, but until then reading through Ali’s posts like this one on Stockholm will have to suffice. I know you’re not here for the travel, though, so take a look instead at her recipes!
I’m trying to figure out when I can go pick berries at our local farm so I can make both this Vanilla Sauce and Berries, and this Spring Salad. I know the Apple Crumble Bake will be making it onto this week’s breakfast menu as well, and maybe even these Beet Muffins! And if none of these entice you, you HAVE to check out this Vegan 13 Bean Soup with homemade Marinated Tofu!

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April 28, 2016
Weekend Bites Earth Day Recipes

Welcome to Weekend Bites! Enjoy these Earth Day Recipes to reacquaint yourself with the wonderful natural produce our earth creates.

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I couldn’t stick to just 4 features this week! So many delicious recipes featuring natural products from our earth. I like to call these Earth Day Recipes. Whether you grow the produce yourself or buy it from the many convenient stores we have, you can get back in touch with your roots with one of these fabulous recipes.

Home Cooking Memories shows us how to make Peanut Butter at home that rivals the natural peanut butters on store shelves. You can then use that peanut butter in Nepa Mom’s Peanut Butter Granola Apples Bites.

This Corn and Avocado Salsa from Old Home to New House can be made with all fresh ingredients. I could see myself plating this salsa next to this Slow Cooker Quinoa from Dizzy Busy and Hungry. Something about making homemade bread makes me feel in touch with the earth as well. This Molasses Walnut Banana Bread from Busy Being Jennifer is on my list to try this week!

Not all earth day recipes have to be full of grains or veggies though. I think I often forget sweet fruits when thinking of earth-friendly dishes to serve my family. I can’t wait to try this fantastic looking Simple Spinach and Strawberry Salad from A Dish of Daily Life, and Frugal Foodie Mama’s Cara Cara Orange and Vanilla Bean Curd.

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April 21, 2016
Weekend Bites After School Snacks

It may be the weekend, but now is the perfect time to plan after school snacks for the kids!

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A few weeks before Spring Break, I hit that point where the kids were coming home and raiding the pantry because I was too busy trying to keep it all together with work and school, and their schoolwork, and family time, and SLEEP, that I just could not prep an after school snack on top of it all. I sort of felt like I was failing them, but knew it was also OK to not always have something prepped beforehand. Just because my mom did it, didn’t mean I had to.

Now that spring break is behind us, and I was able to recharge family time, and sleep, I feel like I have the time to make them more after school snacks. Browsing Weekend Bites last week led me to these fabulous ideasI know my kids will love. You can’t have a snack without the classic chocolate chip cookie, and these Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies from Love to Be In the Kitchen look fantastic!

Yesterday I was thinking about my sister and one of her favorite snacks were cheese crisps. She’s slice some cheese and toss it in the microwave. It would bubble, and you’d think it was dying, but then it would harden into this awesome cheese crisp. When I saw these Parmesan Cheese Crisps on The Parenting Patch it was like she read my mind.

As a teen, and even now, I love a good chip and dip. My kids have caught me dip handed a number of times and made me share too. There’s just something about that creamy dip with a crunchy chip that is perfect. Sugar, Spice and Family Life made a mouthwatering BLT Dip I know our whole house would gather around after school.

Not every snack has to be a treat, though. Some like this Banana Carrot Muffin from Silver Foodie are better for you, and still taste fantastic.

Do you make After School Snacks?

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April 14, 2016
Weekend Bites Dinner Time

Thanks for joining us on Weekend Bites! After checking out the featured dinner time recipes, don’t forget to share your recipes on the linky below!

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The party was a little slow last week, but we still had some great shared recipes! We’re winding up our spring break. We didn’t go anywhere special, but we made a lot of fun here at home and in the neighborhood. Of course it was a rainy week, so we had to find ways to entertain ourselves indoors. We did manage to get some spring cleaning done, but not as much as I usually do during spring break. I am so ready for the kids to head back to school, and for us all to be back on a routine. 10pm nights, and getting up between 9 and 10am will not work out next week. One thig we have kept routine, however, was dinner time. We may have thrown in a couple extra desserts this week, but we eat at the same time, and everyone still helps clean up.

I’m seriously loving the dinner time ideas Simplify Life with Mrs R shared with us. Her Steak Oscar looks divine! Since that’s probabl more an adult dinner (at least my kids wouldn’t appreciate it), she also shared these Marvelous, Moist, Meaty Meatballs. I’d put these on a hoagie for lunch, or with a side of pasta. Meatballs are one of my favorite dishes!

Since the kids have been enjoying more dessert this week, I figured any good dinner meal ends with a dessert. If you’re looking for something a little healthier try the Pumpkin Pound Cake Cookies from A Healthy Helper. A bonus they are are vegan and grain free! If you want to indulge in the sweeter not as healthy side of dessert check out these Butterfinger Rice Krispie Treats from Sugar Spice and Family life.

How was your spring break?

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April 7, 2016