Breakfast Ideas for Kids Is there ever enough time in the morning? I say no. Throw in a toddler who won’t put on her coat, and requires a drop off at daycare, then it feels like every morning is a rush to get out the door and get to work. What would make the mornings easier? If my toddler would just let me put on her coat! Seriously. Please just stop laying on the ground with your arms glued to your side....
Easy egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches are perfect for busy families and individuals who don’t always have the time to cook in the morning. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day—so you don’t want to miss it! Breakfast (and often a cup of coffee) will give you the energy you need to get through the morning. Once you see how easy this recipe is, it will be your favorite go-to anytime you need to grab something quick....
How to Grow Tomatoes From Seed Growing tomatoes from seed is one of the most rewarding experiences for a gardener. Tomatoes are easy plants to grow and produce bountiful harvests for cooking (hey tomato sauce! hey diced tomatoes! hey stewed tomatoes!), storage and snacking. Gardeners usually plant the same two or three varieties from their local garden store but growing from seed opens your garden up to thousands of new juicy possibilities....
Potatoes are a versatile and common addition to any meal. They come in a variety of colors, sizes, and flavors as well. And when stored properly, they can be stored for months at a time, making them great for buying in bulk to use throughout a season. It is important, however, to know how to properly store potatoes, and get around all the conflicting information out there. Here are the best tips for storing your potatoes....
Halloween is usually associated with orange, black and white but who says we can’t add neon rainbow colors to pumpkins and decorations? With this fun pumpkin craft you’ll soon have neon glitter pumpkins to decorate your entire house with! Easy Pumpkin Craft Idea This is a easy craft that you don’t need a lot of time to do. If you’re a crafter, you probably already have the supplies in your overflowing craft cabinet too....
(By the way, how awesome is it to have a World Trade Center and NYC skyline view in your garden?) So on to the first day of garden clean up. Today we had a few goals:1. Clean up the 3 4×4 wooden boxes. We were worried they were going to be frozen and unable to shovel but thankfully they weren’t. We wanted to take all the soil out, replace the sponges underneath, cover the insides with plastic, turn the soil and add compost....
Cookie Butter Cheesecake In this post we will be chasing this Swirled Cookie Butter Cheesecake. Do you know about Cookie Butter, aka one of the greatest things ever invented, aka omg good get it away from me before I eat anymore, aka omg get it away from me before I eat anymore – no wait a minute, please bring it back to me? Cookie Butter can be bought at Trader Joe’s and it basically tastes like you are eating a Gingerbread Cookie house....
The season usually starts with lots of green and then it’ll lead into more colors… the reds with tomatoes, the pinks with watermelon, the oranges with pumpkins… but first up the bushy green friends that make my heart pitter patter! Right now it’s all about bok choy, broccoli, peas and cauliflower! Because of these harvests we’ve been having some pretty delicious dinners… I just can’t say enough great things about a simple pasta dinner with fresh veggies!...
This year the sugar snap pea plants did great, but they’re always done well with producing a bunch of peas. They’re one of the most consistent plants with good yields in both Spring and Fall. Yeah, we have a whole lot of peas in our lives right now. In our fridge there is about 10 pounds worth and we’ve been going through them at a strong pace. For dinner it’s peas in pasta, baked peas or throwing them in a yummy Chinese soup....
Thanksgiving Menu Recipes Need help planning your Thanksgiving menu? Here’s my go-to recipes from main dishes, side dishes, dessert and you know it – tons of leftover ideas too! I am a Thanksgiving traditionalist when it comes to dinner, so I hope you enjoy these simple, classic recipes. Bookmark this page and come back to it every year! What should be on a Thanksgiving Menu? You’ll need a juicy turkey, classic side dishes (mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, rolls and gravy), and pumpkin pie (with whipped cream!...
I have to tell you guys something. I don’t like mayo. At all. Which is why I love taking a traditional mayo-ey recipe and turning it into a non-mayo recipe! Like my Mexican Corn Salad – yum! I really want to reach for a deviled egg when they’re on the appetizer plate but I usually can’t. Well, no more feeling like I’m missing out with this No Mayo Deviled Eggs recipe....
You can’t go wrong with a bowl of piping hot soup on a cold day. My family always requests ham and cabbage soup, cheeseburger soup, and this flavorful tomatillo soup. It warms my heart (literally) to see so many of the vegetables we grew in this soup. The stars of this soup are the tomatillos, which are filled with tasty juices that are going to be released in the slow cooker....
Why in a bread maker, you ask? Because we can! Bread Machine Meatloaf is easy to set and forget when it isn’t made in an oven. Plus, the delicious Italian flavors will infuse into the beef as it cooks in the machine. I love that my bread machine makes the best soft white bread, but the best kitchen tools have more than one use. Load this beefy, tomatoey dinner into the machine and forget about it for 40 minutes....
Cheap Chicken Recipe Ideas Are you looking for a cheap chicken recipe? Then I’m here to help! This post has 50 recipe ideas for your family that all costs less than $10 for a family of 4 (sometimes this recipes even feed more! leftovers!). I broke the sections up into chicken type for easy searching. Chicken Breast Recipes Chicken Thigh Recipes Chicken Drumstick Recipes Ground Chicken Recipes Whole and Rotisserie Chicken Recipes...
Who’s ready to pop a few soybeans right in their mouth? Ok, me too! Grab a few soybeans and let’s get snacking! Edamame Recipe I love edamame. I went through this phase where every time I ordered sushi I also ordered a big bowl of edamame to go with it. Then I got to thinking, why don’t we grow our own soybeans? So we bought some seeds, planted them in our containers and BOOM!...
Can I get a drum roll please? After months of hard work, the garden is ready to be revealed in all it’s corn growing, pumpkin pollinating, tomato loving glory! Are you ready? OOOOOOOOH! AAAAAAAAAH! In our Upstate adventure, building the garden was first on the list. Can you believe this was where we started a few months ago? We spent cold Winter weekends and hot Summer days getting the garden dug up and the fence built....
So with the sugar snap peas all planted (and all have sprouted!) we moved on to planting the green beans. We’ve had pretty good success with pole beans as we support them with built in box trelis or wire fencing. I know some of you probably grow bush beans but we’ve always found that pole beans grow better for us. This year we are trying 2 types of green beans: Kentucky Wonder (description found online: Kentucky Wonder is a wonderful heirloom variety with good old-fashioned taste....
It’s September… so it’s officially pumpkin season! I mean ok, it’s 95 degrees here, but let’s pretend it feels like Fall, ok? Baby Pancakes Because I look forward to pumpkin recipes so much, I wanted to be able to make my baby a pumpkin recipe – perfect for those chubby little fingers of hers! So many of you loved my baby led weaning cookies and baby led weaning muffins so I figured it was time to share the baby pancakes Enceladus is currently loving – Pumpkin Pancakes!...
Did you see my Halloween Party post featuring Eyeball Sherbet Punch? In the post I mentioned that I made a Root Beer Bundt Cake for Halloween that was a bit hit! Some of you guys asked for the recipe, so I’m back with pictures and the recipe! Halloween Cake This is one of my favorite cake recipes because it’s easy, delicious and perfect for Halloween! The cake is made with root beer making it moist and soft inside!...
Sweet Potato Baby Cookies Can you believe Enceladus just turned 8 months? How time flies! With month 7 came her craving for finger food! No Mom, she doesn’t want to be fed with a spoon, she wants to feed herself! I admit, it does get a little messy when she feeds herself but it’s lots of fun to watch! And honestly, nothing warms my heart more than to know she loves Mama’s cooking (she’s a big fan of my dairy free mashed potatoes too!...
