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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What do you think of Twinkies? I think people either love them or hate them. I love them. I’m not sure why. If I think about it too long I start to question my love of spongy yellow cake and frosting. So I don’t think about it for too long =o) For awhile, years ago, […]
My daughter saw these wonderful looking treats in her Fancy Nancy Tea Parties book. (Did I mention we LOVE Fancy Nancy?!) Her books are stupendous (that’s fancy for great!) I did an earlier post from this book as well. Click here to see it. So Ellie saw these and said to me “oh, let’s make […]
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 […]
So what do you think? Have we been doing it up, Thanksgiving style? (Maybe not if you’re a grown up. But we don’t really have one of those in our house.) =o) But my kids have loved all the fun treats we’ve made so far. We tried our first Turkey Cookie. Then we sugar-ed it […]
I haven’t done a single thing for the 4th of July =o( Where have I been??? We typically don’t do much for the 4th, though. It’s always been one of those holidays where I’m frustrated because of all the loud noises that keep waking my kids up! Does that make me grouchy? =o( But a […]
Halloween means fun food, right? At least in our house it does. I have to spice it up a little for my kids. So how could I not make these bloody band aide cookies??!! I saw these over on Pinterest (who got them from Katherine Marie Photography.) Do you pin? If not, you are so […]
Tag! I’m it! Yeah! I love to play games. I’m a kid at heart. I’ll admit it. So when Tiffanee over at One Crazy Cookie tagged me, I was thrilled and honored. Thrilled because, like I said, I like to play =o) And honored because I love her blog. She posts the best recipes! What […]
Because, really… isn’t everything better on a stick? Heck yeah! And how cute are these little mummy heads? I just loved them. We gobbled up our Mummy Twinkie Pops (holy smokes, were they good!) And we wanted to do another fun mummy treat this Halloween so we decided on these. Mummy Oreo Suckers Source: How […]