Practical DIY for the busy woman
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
Holidays are the time for indulging . . . but if you want to keep things a little on the lighter side, try these DELICIOUS Christmas or New Year’s appetizers that won’t totally ruin your eating habits. Plus – the healthier your appetizers are, the more cookies you can eat! š Aren’t these Cranberry Read More
Brrr, it’s getting cold outside and it’s time to warm up with a cup of hot cocoa! This homemade hot cocoa mix uses just 5 ingredients and makes the perfect creamy cup of pure deliciousness! It’s so much better than hot cocoa packets and much more economical. And, once you mix up one batch Read More
I am a cookies & cream lover!!! Add salty, crunchy pretzels and you have an out of this world match. These Cookies & Cream Pretzels are super quick and simple to throw together, and are a perfect holiday snack or gift! I just made a batch for my family’s treat while we decorate Read More