Practical DIY for the busy woman
Strawberry Oatmeal Bars Recipe Strawberries are one of my *favorite* fruits! When they’re in season, we go through quarts and quarts of them because I have four kiddos who LOVE fresh strawberries. We’re also growing them in our garden for the 2nd year in a row, so it’s fun to be able to make Read More
Tamale Pie My Mom has made this for years and it was always one of my favorites growing up. Something about the Southwestern flavors and the cheesiness and the warm cornbread topping just gets me every time. I’ll have to admit it’s hard capturing the deliciousness of tamale pie on camera haha. But trust me, Read More
Sprinkle Marshmallow Pops When my son recently turned 4, I wanted to make a fun treat for him to take to all his class friends, AND I wanted it to be something he could help make. I decided on these SPRINKLE MARSHMALLOW POPS, and a hit they were!! My little Read More
Oatmeal Breakfast Recipes If you’re an oatmeal-lover like we are, you’ll enjoy all these different ways to get your oats in each morning! We have plenty of Oatmeal Breakfast Recipes that you’ll love! OATMEAL BREAKFAST RECIPES Easy Baked Oatmeal – A family favorite for all of us girls is our Easy Baked Oatmeal – Read More
Espresso Chocolate Chunk Muffins with Espresso Cream Glaze What will get you out of bed faster than Espresso Muffins waiting for you in the kitchen?! š Try this luscious, cozy muffin recipe to perk up your mornings – the strong, bold flavor of espresso (we make it easy and use Starbucks VIA’s!) combined with Read More
When you live somewhere that is HOT most of the year, you drink a lot of COLD drinks. Just give me something to cool me off!! And in Arizona we have a lot of HOT days. I don’t just mean hot, I mean INSANELY HOT!! You know it’s hot when your car temperature reads 119 Read More
I tried making some homemade Samoa Cookies the other day, and boy, they were the bomb. Sweet caramel-y coconut mounded on top of a fudge stripe shortbread . . . couldn’t get better, or easier! So I found a way to have that flavor sitting in my cupboard for the next couple months. š Samoa Read More
We LOVE our homemade granola, and it’s always a happy day when more is made and you get the aroma of that yummy deliciousness baking! Several years ago, our Mom took our traditional granola recipe and experimented with taking the basics of the recipe and turning it into this delicious peanut butter Read More
Banana Bread is a favorite at our house, so I decided to make a Banana Bread Bar version with a sheet cake recipe! The amount of batter is just right, the bars turned out, not too thin, not too thick…. just perfect!! And, of course, to make it a dessert, I lathered them in Read More
Super-Simple Flat-Roasted Chicken Whenever we have roasted chicken, I can count on my four kids coming into the kitchen saying, “Come on! Mom’s butchering the chicken! Come see!” Well, to them, it might look like an intense butchering job, but it’s really only a couple cuts with my kitchen shears and a good push on Read More
Game Day is February 3rd – and it’s time to start planning the paaaaaarty! Even though ‘my’ team didn’t make it to the Big Game this year (cue Cody Parkey missing the field goal by a mile in the playoffs), it’s still fun to watch and even more fun to make some party food and Read More
After I made my homemade hot cocoa mix last week, I decided to come up with these super cute diy hot cocoa gift kits! They’re perfect for gifting to teacher, students, mailman, babysitter, hairdresser . . . you name it, anyone is sure to love it. Because who doesn’t love a cup of hot Read More