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I am always on the look out for healthy homemade snacks and luckily I have lots of friends who are willing to share their recipes. My friend, Jane & I swap cookbooks, which is a really nice way to gain some new recipes, complete with feedback fro (read full article)
It is always nice to spend a leisurely afternoon with friends. A couple of weeks ago, my kiddos and I were invited to friend's home for food, laughter, and some good old backyard fun. Jane, opened her lovely home to us all, and served us a wond (read full article)
My four year old has been cooking since she could stand on a step stool next to me. We try to make several things a week, both for the fun of it, and to have healthy, good things around to snack on. Thanks to a well stocked pantry, some of our cookin (read full article)
Peanut Butter Krispy Treats from the Cookbook Super Natural Cooking by Heidi SwansonMy friend, Jane, and I have been having fun exchanging cookbooks. It is a great way to find some new recipes and to check out cookbooks I might want to buy. The libra (read full article)
I have a few recipes that are so universally appealing that every time I make them I am asked for the recipe. One is for almond flour scones. Another one is for our family crepe recipe. And a third is my energy bars, which I was kind of shocked to fi (read full article)
I mentioned these cakes in this post about quiche. These cakes make a wonderful brunch dessert or even breakfast. You can cover them with fresh whipped cream but I like them drizzled with real maple syrup.Buttermilk Pudding CakesBy Martha Stewart (He (read full article)
We recently had a birthday tea party with a little friend who turned one. We made most of her gifts, including a take out container filled with homemade crackers. It was my first attempt at crackers, although I have been wanting to make them for year (read full article)
Last weekend, we had some friends over for Sunday brunch (or whatever you call the meal between lunch and dinner, perhaps, lunner?) I made quiche. So yummy, so easy! Our friends brought over a salad of mixed greens, goat cheese, and strawberries, soo (read full article)
My aunt was visiting us recently and we went out for dinner. When dessert came, I was excited to see Vanilla Bean Ice Cream Profiteroles with Kahlua Hot Fudge (check out this lovely blog I just stumbled upon for a recipe). I had been craving hot fudg (read full article)
I will forever be grateful to my friend, Kirstin, for forwarding this recipe to me. I am a huge fan of peanut butter and chocolate. And brownies, I love them! I haven't made brownies from a box since I was a kid because they really are easy to make f (read full article)
This is the first time I tried this recipe. Right off the bat I changed it to suit my own needs so I can officially call it my recipe now. It makes a very colorful, very fresh, super yummy (as my daughter would say) vegetarian pasta sauce. We put it (read full article)
Today was a beautiful, sunny, spring like day that I spent with my kiddos. Quin had her first kids yoga class. She spent all day, it was a 4 PM, asking about it, and I was afraid it might not live up to all her anticipation, but it totally did. She L (read full article)
My friend, Michelle, came over for dinner one Sunday evening with her kiddos. She arrived with fresh baked cookies. How she managed to make them with her two active kids (3 year old girl with energy to burn and 1 year old boy who has been walking sin (read full article)
My husband is French Canadian. He is from outside of Ottawa, so he is Franco-Ontarian, but we did live in Quebec for awhile. In fact, our eldest daughter was born there, so she is actually Quebecois on paper. I was born in Minneapolis but my great gr (read full article)
We do our best to consume all the holiday goodies that we make or receive, but there always seems to be an extra tin of Christmas cookies that are getting too hard to eat without dunking them in a hot beverage... and what to do with the 100 mini cand (read full article)
I feel that starting fresh can always be an option, but I love the formal feeling of a new year and how we can start anew with a clean slate. My friend Tina reminded me of the concept of Tabula Rasa, which is Latin for clean slate. At the beginning o (read full article)
BEFOREMy friend, Cheryl, came over on Sunday. It was an extremely chilly day, something like -25 below and she WALKED to my house. I like to drink warm beverages and eat goodies with my friends, especially if I have not seen them in awhile. What bett (read full article)
...and tastes oh-so-much better. Trust me on this. With my first child, I bought a lot of organic jarred baby foods. I waited until she was 7 months old before I fed her because she was not very interested in food. In the end, she was not much of an (read full article)
Thanks to a friend, I recently participated in an email recipe exchange. It did not go as hoped. I was supposed to receive 32 recipes. I think I may have gotten 12. And once I had deleted the ones with meat and those with processed products like, eh (read full article)
My friend, Cindy, brought over a batch of these amazing scones the week I gave birth to Emmanuelle. They gave me the much needed energy that was necessary for nursing a newborn and for regaining my strength. Plus they tasted amazing! I asked her for (read full article)
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