Food, Crafts and Fun
A Hawaiian restaurant opened up where I live and I can’t seem to get enough of their Macaroni Salad. People have asked me, doesn’t it taste just like regular macaroni salad? And the answer is “heck no!” It’s much better! I think it’s because it’s made with apple cider vinegar and doesn’t have mustard in […]
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We have had some pretty crazy weather in the Pacific Northwest. We had quite a few 80 degree days in April, which is unheard of, and then in June? Holy smokes. It was stinkin’ hot. Luckily my kids and I headed out of the country right when it was getting ridiculously hot. We left for […]
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Is there anything better than peanut butter and chocolate together? Yes, when you add pound cake to the mix. So when I saw this recipe for Peanut Butter Pound Cake over on Call Me PMC, I knew I had to make it. I made a different glaze because I wanted to add some chocolate to […]
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For Father’s Day I wanted to make a dessert for my Dad that would knock his socks off. There are two things I know that my Dad absolutely loves, and that’s pound cake and peaches. I made him a Peach Pound Cake awhile back so I so I wanted to come up with something different. […]
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My daughter absolutely loves the freeze dried strawberries that we buy at Target. I don’t mind buying them for her because they are pretty healthy but man, oh man, they aren’t cheap. And, like most Mom’s, I just want my kids to eat something somewhat healthy. About a year and a half ago I got […]
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Sadly, we don’t have a ton of 4th of July recipes on our blog. I have no idea why that is. Maybe because summer is just beginning and we’re still on oh-my-heck-I’m-so-exhausted-from-school mode that we haven’t quite slipped into it yet. But this year is no different, unfortunately. We’re off on our big adventure and […]
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We’re counting down the days! Which isn’t difficult to do right now because it’s only 4 days until we leave on our trip. Holy smokes. Just writing that gives me butterflies! I’m so excited and a tad bit nervous too. We’re off to Peru for 6 weeks to do some volunteer work. (You can read […]
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Who hates it when you make something and it turns out nothing like the picture on the internet? My hand is raised. When we attempted to make Marshmallow Fondant? Total fail. Well, here’s another one for you. Total fail. We saw this on Pinterest (because isn’t that where we find everything these days?!) It took […]
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Summer has officially started in our house. My kids are out of school. I’m done with work. Now it’s time for the fun to begin! So we had to start the first morning of summer break off right. My kids love breakfast sandwiches and breakfast burritos – pretty much anything to do with eggs and […]
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I think a Texas Sheet Cake is about the best cake ever invented. The chocolatey cake covered in a fudgy frosting? Oh man, sign me up. I’ll eat it every time. But, as you may have noticed, I don’t make a lot of cakes. See, the problem with cake is that I’ll eat…. all. And […]
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Our last Halloween post for the season (sniff, sniff) is a simple but fun one – Mummy Pretzels! Cute, right?!?! We found two different versions on the internet, here and here – both adorable. The girls loved making them. I’m pretty sure they ate about 20 eyes a piece before I realized where they all went. […]
Happy 4th of July everyone! What are you doing tonight? I’m going to hope I don’t fry my eyebrows while I watch the amazed looks on my kids face as the fireworks go off. They love fireworks. Well, not the loud ones. =o) When I saw these adorable Corn Dog Cookies over on Sue’s blog, […]
I can’t believe it’s the middle of October and I haven’t even posted a Halloween recipe or crafts yet. Ugh. Life is a little overwhelming right now but I’ve decided to kick it into gear and get my Halloween on. So the first Halloween recipe for this year is for Candy Corn Cookies. Aren’t they […]
I think I should just rename my blog “All the ideas I steal from Family Fun”. Seriously. Because whenever we get the magazine we all look through it and say “Oh, we have to make that!” about a million times. This was no exception. We had to make this, of course. I mean really… hot […]
The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming! I told you that I was going to make dinner time more fun and exciting. How fun is this idea?!?! My kids loved it! This idea came from the cookbook Just For Kids Collection. (If you missed my Octo-Dog post you MUST check it out here!) Here’s […]
I’ve seen these around blogland for awhile now and wondered if they would be good or just plain weird. My daughter loves corn dogs. So would she love these??? So I hopped on over to My Kitchen Adventures to see what I needed to do. How simple!!! I used a Corn Bread Muffin mix (the […]
To continue our April Fools Day fun food extravaganza, we have a simple but fun one for you today – Peanut Butter Potstickers. They don’t totally look like potstickers, but my kids didn’t care. They loved them. And they were so simple to make. Thanks Party Pinching for this great idea. What you’ll need: * […]
This might be the last of our Easter treats for this year. But seriously, don’t hold me to that. Sometimes we just bake on a whim so there might be more =o) So guess where I saw this cute idea. Give up? It’s another Family Fun magazine idea. I am totally in love with that […]