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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I saw this “recipe” in the Family Fun magazine while at the Doctor’s office and thought I’d give it a try. Anything to make dinner time fun, right? My kids LOVED it! And it was easy to make. I took hot dogs and cut them into 4 pieces. Then I took raw spaghetti noodles and […]
My kids and I watch a craft show every Saturday morning called Donna’s Day. Have you heard of it? It’s fantastic. She does crafts and recips and all sorts of great things for you to do with your kids. Some of them are awesome. Some of them are for the more Martha Stewart Mom’s out […]
Do they look like hot dogs? Of course they do. But are they? Well, sort of. They’re hot dogs, but not the kind you eat for lunch. You eat these hot dogs for dessert! I found the recipe for these over on The Seven Year Cottage. I changed it up just a little bit. They used […]
Are these the cutest cookies EVER?!?! Not to toot my own horn. Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t invent this recipe. I just stole it =o) But how could I NOT steal it, right?!?! After I saw this cookie on Raina’s blog The Garden of Yum I knew this was the next cookie I was […]
One of the best things I’ve done with my kids is taking them camping. I was a little afraid the first time we went. It was just me and my two, very young, children. We had so much fun. Now, 5 years later, it’s the highlight of our summer when we go camping. We load […]
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes are comfort food to me. I love them! My kids love them! And I love that my kids love them! But I wanted to kid it up a little. (We eat meatloaf a lot.) So I made my regular meatloaf. It’s nothing uber fancy. I buy the spice packet at the […]
A friend of mine at work bought this amazingly awesome ice cube tray mold for me. I thought it was a giant compliment when she said “I saw this and thought of you.” Seriously! How cool is that! I love it when people see weird but extremely cool things and actually think of me. What […]
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 […]