Food

Easy Meals. I get asked A LOT about some easy and quick meal ideas.  Those two words mean something different to each person because there is no way I could cook you the dinner you might be picturing in the time it takes you to go through a drive-thru.  However, clearly if you read my blog you ...

A few things I love, to enjoy with your afternoon tea and maybe even your sweetie on Valentine’s Day: 1. Every cup o’ tea is better with a little of nature’s best sweetener.  I get this every time I’m in Napa…so good.  Branches range wildflower honey $11, Katzandco.com 2. We love this full leaf tea press from ...

If you’re tired of pizza, try calzones. In our house, we love to make pizza.  Pizza to us usually means a movie.  Our kids don’t really watch TV, so we like to have a family movie night every once in a while to hang out and enjoy a good flick.  Lately, we’ve been watching the LIFE ...

Back in the very very beginning of my time of writing posts here, I made vanilla extract.  It was a wonderful experience.  No, I’m not weird for thinking that.  The reason it was so wonderful was because it was SO easy.  I love replacing things that I buy at the store with homemade versions, but ...

  Craziness!  It’s already been a year!  The official time I started my blog was actually back in August of 2010, but I wanted to get things just right on the design end before posting.  It’s kind-of a joke when I think of it now because it was FAR from nice and my posts were pretty sad-looking.  ...

I was putting some pictures together from my phone and I realized a food trend.  I know I cook 95% of our meals at home, but I seriously take a LOT of pictures of food.  I don’t always show people, but I’ve been taking pictures of food since before it was cool.   Cooking is imperative ...

What every kid wants on a Saturday morning. Kids always want pancakes.  My kids get RIDICULOUSLY excited about these puppies, but that might be because I don’t make them regularly.  About one pancake in (if they make it that far) they are over it, but for that 15 minutes that I am prepping and the 3-5 ...

Caramel is one of my very favorite things.  Even more than plain caramels I love salted caramels and goat’s milk caramels.  I love the creamy vanilla flavor with the bite of the goat’s milk. Yummy.  I don’t know why I don’t make them very often, but I’m glad I did this Christmas.  I saw this ...

You’ve probably seen that one super-cute peppermint wreath floating around Pinterest.  I love the simplicity of it and that you only need glue, peppermints, and a wreath form.  I had planned to make one, from this pin, but then I watch “Elf”.  I’ve said before that if you haven’t seen that movie, you most definitely ...

Every Christmas, I make the same cookie recipes.  I’m sure I’m not alone in this.  I love each one and have no intention of stopping this tradition.  However, every year I also am tempting by the intriguing new recipes from Bon Appetit, Martha Stewart Living, my old Gourmet’s, and every other picture at the checkout ...