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Pregnancy is a time when you want your health to be at it’s best. It’s important to get all the right nutrients and stay hydrated. However, our bodies don’t always make this an easy task during pregnancy. Pregnancy safe tea can be a great option, no matter the stage of your pregnancy, to increase your intake of fluids and small amounts of vitamins and minerals. Types of Tea Tea, officially, comes from the leaves of an evergreen shrub or tree called Camellia sinensis....

50 Best Buttermilk Recipes Why buttermilk? Great question, buttermilk is the real deal. It’s a sweet, fermented dairy product that brings flavor to your batter, moistness to your bread and the fluffiness to your waffles and pancakes. It comes in cartons at the grocery store, which usually can’t be used in one recipe, so having a few recipes ready can help you make sure that the buttermilk doesn’t go to waste....

Christmas Sugar Cookie Bites Sugar Cookie Bites are one of my favorite Christmas Cookies to make because of their bite size. Each sugar cookie is about an inch in length, decorated with holiday sprinkles to make the cutest little sugar cookies! This is a fun family recipe that really gets the kids involved with helping with the dough and rolling around in the sprinkles. We always make a couple batches of these, some for our cookie tin, some for Santa (Santa loves them!...

Crockpot Recipes With the temperatures feeling like single digits, I’ve been craving a nice (big!) bowl of warm chili. But without having to put too much energy into it! That’s when I start looking for dinner ideas that involve my favorite kitchen tool- the crockpot. I decided to up my chili game one notch and create Pamela’s Pork Chili filled with bacon and sausage! Doesn’t it look delicious? It tastes it too!...

Last week I was invited to a Hello Cereal Lovers event hosted by General Mills serving creations by Justin Warner. As soon as I arrived and started to taste all these amazing cereal dishes my mind started to wonder quickly. I usually think of Cereal as something I splash milk on and call it a day, or occasionally bake cookies and make granola bars with. But savory? I never thought of cereal as savory but that has all changed....

Easy sausage and mushroom pasta dinner The best and most comforting meals are always made with pasta. So tender and flavorful, you can easily mix pasta with any kind of meat, sauce, or veggies to make the comfort food of your dreams! This Italian Sausage Pasta is a real treat as it’s made with Italian sausage links, baked mushrooms, rigatoni pasta, and tomato sauce. Every bite is so warming and flavorful, plus it’s on the dinner table in less than an hour!...

I wear clothing with pumpkins on. Even in December. I love them! One of the most proudest moments of my life was a few years ago when I went to Target the day after Halloween and found a giant light up pumpkin that I have been eying up for 90% off! It was huge! I needed it! I hugged it tightly and rushed to the register. So off I went, struggling to carry and lug this guy home on the G train....

First, a quick update on Mister Christmas Tree! We planted him a month ago and I’ve been worried sick about him. So far he looks good! I don’t think we’ll know until Spring if he’s in the clear, but for now he looks great. We gave him a great big hug. I got a bunch of cameras to set up on the land so I can check out the wildlife when I’m not there....

Fast and Easy Taco Soup If the recipe has “taco” in the title, I probably love it. Taco Casserole? Yum! Slow Cooker Taco Soup? Yes, please! This Stovetop soup is based on my Slow Cooker Taco Soup recipe, but is ready in 30 minutes. Sometimes mornings are busy and I can’t get everything ready in the Slow Cooker in time, so this fast stovetop recipe makes Taco Soup possible. Also, did I mention this is a 1 pot recipe?...

Healthy Black Bean Tacos I just know you’re going to love these Baked Black Bean Tacos! Not only are they delicious but they’re so easy to make. This is one of my go to weeknight vegetarian meals that my family (including a very opinionated 3 year old) absolutely loves. A homemade seasoning is mixed with black beans on the stove, and then added to tortillas. Shredded cheese is added on top, tortillas are rolled up and then tacos are baked....

This Buttered Rice and Cabbage is an easy comforting meal filled with healthy vegetables that I hope you’ll love as much as I do. It’s so easy to make and it involves one of my favorite ingredients – cabbage! As a girl my Mother would make the best Polish cabbage recipes, so every time I make it I get a smile on my face! Cooked Cabbage Recipe I wanted to create a recipe that would be ready in 20 minutes that is still wholesome with fresh ingredients – a meal you’ll feel good about serving the family....

Pin for later: Pin this Recipe For Later! Oh garlic knots, how I love you! Often I’ll be walking near our favorite neighborhood pizza shop and I’ll get a sniff of them from a block away. Ohh, that delicious smell of baked dough covered in olive oil, garlic and parsley! I can’t help myself, next thing you know I’m in the shop sitting on a bench enjoying a order of garlic knots!...

If I could stand on top of a mountain I would yell “I love pickles!”. I really do. They’re pretty, they’re crunchy, they’re full of flavor, they hit the right spot in the afternoon when you need a snack, they’re great on a burger, they’re great at 4AM standing in front of the refrigerator. How to Make Half Sour Pickles With the cucumber plants in full producing mode right now we have been picking (and pickling!...

Easy to Make Pasta Salad When it’s hot out all I crave is fresh vegetables. That’s why this Italian Pasta Salad is one of my favorite meals in the Summer! When it’s hot out, I don’t want to think about turning our oven on. I also don’t want to even think about drinking or eating anything hot, instead I like to rely on chilled recipes, like this Pasta Salad! That’s why my family loves this recipe during the Summer months!...

Low Carb Keto Pancakes If you’re looking for a keto pancakes recipe- this is it! If you’re craving pancakes, but need something more friendly to your low carb diet, you’re really going to like them. These pancakes are fluffy (just like my no butter pancakes!) thanks to the cream cheese, and won’t leave you feeling hungry afterwards (thanks eggs!). Whenever I eat these I can pretty much make it to lunch without snacking as they fill me up!...

We had a beautiful weekend (it was 80 degrees!) so we decided to visit the land to plant the tree and do some Spring cleanup before planting season begins. We haven’t been Upstate in almost 2 months so it was nice to get away and bask in the sunshine while digging around in the soil on a lazy Sunday. Our Christmas tree has been inside our apartment since November, a little longer than we would have liked to keep it inside but it would have gotten cold shocked if we planted it earlier....

Well it’s that time of the year where the heat hits and the tomatoes start to take off to the sky! To make sure our tomatoes grow big and get the support they need we always add cages on almost as soon as they are planted. It’s always easier to put on cages when the tomato plants are small rather then later when they are already bushy. If you’ve ever attempted to put a tomato cage on a bushy tomato plant then you can probably understand the frustration that could be involved with this....

I love vanilla brownies (blondies!). I love frosting. I love sprinkles. These Vanilla Blondies with Vanilla Glaze Frosting are perfect because they check off each of those categories! I should warn you now, these blondies are dangerously good. I can’t tell you how many blondies I ate because you would have this image of me being a blondie monster in your head and none of you think that. Right? Oh goodness, I’m glad I’m right (thanks for making me feel better)....

Lately I have really been in the mood for a big bowl of Chinese noodles full of vegetables so I cooked this Bok and Mushroom Noodles dish one night and now it’s a official staple for dinner. I love that I can use both fresh bok choy and kale from the garden making this a healthy vegetable dish too! This Chinese dish will only take you 15 minutes to make so it’s a easy meal to make on weeknights!...

Best ground beef chili recipe This Ground Beef Chili is the ultimate comfort food. Delicious year round, it’s packed with feel-good flavors such as savory beef, rich beans, and aromatic garlic, onion, pepper, and chili powder. Serve a bowl alongside Buttermilk Cornbread or Jalapeno Biscuits for a filling lunch or in a bread bowl with a side of sweet potato fries, roasted broccoli and brussels sprouts for a well-rounded dinner. I’m willing to bet that this chili recipe will be one of the fastest you ever make....