“Mom, what’s for dinner tonight?”. How many times have you heard that and thought… I wish I knew! I’m pretty good about planning out menu’s ahead of time. But there are always times when despite the best planning you don’t have anything ready for dinner and you need a quick and easy idea to help….
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Flourless Chocolate Cookies
One of my favorite things to do is taking a Sunday drive with my husband. We leave the kids at home (which of course is fine with them) and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Sierra Moutains. We get to have conversations that are un-interrupted by kids, phones or computers. It doesn’t take long for our…
Home Remedy for Dry Chapped Hands
Are you prone to having dry, chapped hands? Me too. Now raise those hands if you are ready to do something about it! Between the winter months of harsh cold temperatures and how it seems like wherever I have lived, we have always had hard water, my hands get extremely dry. My skin tends to…
Blender French Toast with Coconut Syrup
Do you mind if I am on a breakfast kick this week? On Monday I posted about Almond Pancakes with Blackberry Syrup and today we’re talkin’ French Toast! Yum! Last week I was in Arizona helping my daughter who just had her second little boy. My primary job was to help take care of her first…
Supreme Pizza Lasagne in a Crockpot
Ya know, one of the most fun aspects about having a blog is the opportunity to meet and get to know other bloggers. One of the neatest people that I have met from blogging is Jeni from Bakerette.com! She has an amazing blog that you seriously need to check out. Her recipes are scrumdiddlyumptious and…
Almond Pancakes with Blackberry Honey Syrup and Greek Yogurt Sweet Cream
What is your favorite meal of the day? Mine is most certainly breakfast even though I rarely get one as wonderful as these pancakes. Most mornings I am busy getting ready for work and only have time for a green smoothie. When my children were little however, I made breakfast most mornings and we were…
Brown Sugar Snickerdoodle
“If a little is good, a lot is better.” Sometimes adages like this can get you into trouble. This one caused me problems because sometimes “less is more”. When I was in college and in my 20’s I got a hold of a book about weightlifting for women. I looked the program over. There were…
Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake
On a cold, wintery morning I crave something to help me believe that spring will come again. I know there are many lovers of snow out there who will disagree with me, but winter is just not my thing. I hate to be cold. I am a California transplant. Luckily I live in a…
Coconut Milk Shampoo
I chose this pin because I have spent my adult life in search of hair products than can manage my fine but very curly hair. Let’s just state here and now that I have spent a small fortune over the years! I have tried over the counter products, and as a licensed cosmetologist I…
Tracy’s Righteous Chocolate Chip Cookies
Funny thing about sister’s, actually several funny things about sisters. One, we think a like. When we first started our blog, we would call each other up with a list of pins that we were planning on trying out. Of course, half of my “pins” were on either Debbie or Sherri’s list. How were we…
DIY Granite Cleaner
DIY GRANITE CLEANER This is going to really show my age, but how many of you remember “Alice” the housekeeper from the Brady Bunch Family TV show? You never really got to see her doing much cleaning other than light vacuuming and constantly wiping down the kitchen counters with a snow white cleaning cloth. If…
Easy Soft French Bread
Could you just live off of bread? I sure could. You know that statement “Man cannot live by bread alone”? Yeah well I beg to differ. Dinner rolls, croissants, french bread, sourdough bread, sweet breads, biscuits, garlic bread, cheese bread, baguettes….don’t stop me….just call me buttah cause I’m on a roll! Get it? I know….
Wicked Good Chocolate Chip Cookies
How many chocolate chip cookie recipes do you have? Seriously. Come on, fess up. I will admit that I have the Original Toll House, Mrs. Fields, Blue Chip Cookie, Neiman Marcus, a recipe where you pulverize oatmeal into a flour and probably up to five unknown, unnamed chocolate chip recipes in my cookie arsenal. Well…
Texas Caviar
Did you try any new food or appetizer for the Super Bowl? I do have some good old standby’s that my family always requests but this year I wanted to try some new things. And what better place to find a new recipe than Pinterest?!?! Just a little info about my particular palette preferences. (Say…
Zebra Caramel Corn
Are you in the market for a treat for your loved ones on Valentine’s? Well look no further…have I got the thing for you. Whether you are making a goodie for your children, spouse, mother, father, neighbor next door, or even the mailman, they will love you for this one. This treat NEVER lasts for…
Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake
When you hear the magic word “butter” what do you think of? Toast? Pancakes? Baking? Paula Deen? Me too. I have never made a single recipe from Paula Deen (sorry Paula! I still like y’all!) but I have seen this Paula Deens Ooey Gooey Butter Cake pinned so many times that I couldn’t resist. There…
Slow Cooked Pork Chops
I hate it when there is a recipe I loved as a kid, but the recipe is lost. In fact, my Mom doesn’t even remember making Slow Cooked Pork Chops. Maybe I had it at a friend’s house. Either way I have been searching for it for years. The key ingredient I remember was canned…
Refrigerator Water Tray Vinegar Cleaning Trick
Have you tried the vinegar trick? This is the question that nosy, know-it-all neighbor asks Owen’s parents in one of my favorite children’s books by Kevin Henkes. Owen is having trouble giving up his blankie and the neighbor suggests they soak it in vinegar so he won’t be able to stand the smell and will…
Oily Hair “Dry Cleaner”
We’ve all had one of those days where you run out of time to wash your hair before you need to leave the house. At this point, you don’t have a lot of options. You can put your hair up if it is long enough, hide it under a hat (sadly I look TERRIBLE in…
Clean your Oven Glass
Another dirty little secret is being revealed today. How many times do you share with others what the inside of your oven looks like? I am going to tell our readers that I purposely let my oven glass get this dirty for the sake of this post. Yep. That’s my story. And I’m sticking with…
Oven Roasted Cauliflower
When the kids went back to school after Winter Break I was grumpy. I know as a mother sometimes I am grumpy when the kids go back to school because vacation is over, we have to get back to our regular schedule and the fun is ended. But this time, I was not grumpy for…