cooking/baking

Simplify Your Family Life Giant Ebook Sale

If you’re looking for my first day of Spring Spruce Up in the Craft Room either scroll down or check out my Spring Spruce Up post (day one) through this link. Corey from Simple Marriage and Mandi from Life…Your Way have brought together some of the top authors in the family life space with 30 [...]

Homemade First Communion Themed Cakes

I really enjoy having parties to celebrate when my kids have made their First Holy Communion. To me, it’s an outward sign to them (from us, as parents) of how important we think this Sacrament is, and how proud we are.  I usually love to make all kinds of things to feed our guests, but [...]

Saying Yes to Cooking Help (Even When I Don’t Want To)

I have mentioned many times before about my lack of cooking experience growing up. I did do some baking (even pretty young), but always things like cookies.  (And even then, it was only peanut butter cookies and chocolate chip cookies.)  As a parent, I have a better understanding of one of the reasons I probably [...]

7 Quick Takes: January 28, 2011 (Vol. 68)

~ 1 ~ I’ve been working on eating better the last couple of weeks, though I’ve had off days and on days.  Nothing has been really steady, even though I had told myself that I would really focus on healthier eating and exercise when I got home from vacation. This week, however, I downloaded the [...]

Home Baked Holiday Gifts 2010

As in years past, we had a baking day today to put together Christmas goodies for some of the people in our lives. This year, our list consisted of 16 people, plus one group of people. After many, many hours of working (this was what we did for school today, having our third Project Day), [...]

Taco Salad with a Twist

We’ve had taco salad a few times lately, and I decided to snap a picture during one of those meals.  (Check out the princess napkin.  It’s because I’m special like that.) I had this taco salad for the first time when we made it for a women’s retreat at church.  I wasn’t so sure about [...]

Helpful Homeschool Hints: The Cooking School Edition

I have to admit that as much as I would like to be a very creative homeschooler, I fear that I am not. I read blogs of those that constantly have projects all around the house and amazing things to post, and again – I do not.  We do some fun things, but we also [...]

Exciting New Recipe App: Big Fork Little Fork for the iPad

I recently downloaded a really great free app for my iPad – Big Fork Little Fork. I first heard about it on TwitterMoms, and I thought, “Okay, sure – I’ll download the app and check it out.”  Seeing that it was from Kraft Foods (who partnered with chef Marcus Samuelsson) made me excited, since I [...]

We’re Busy Getting Ready for Thanksgiving

I have been pretty absent this week with my writing.  We’ve been getting our hands messy while getting ready for Thanksgiving. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Homemaking for Boys?

A couple of months ago, I was reading on a site about the importance of teaching our daughters homemaking skills.  I am certainly proof of the need for that.  There was then a question for readers asking what they were doing to encourage their daughter’s homemaking skills. I couldn’t help but answer in this way: [...]

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