This is a guest post from The Red Apron Girl. These cupcakes are truly divine. We tried these because my husband is not a fan of cupcakes he says “cupcakes are too dry and unless you have a gallon of milk they aren’t worth eating.” These, however, he was completely impressed with and said he would take … Read more
Are you ready for the most delicious pancakes you’ve ever tasted? These pancakes have a hearty, nutty, wholesome flavor that is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. At our house, it’s mostly dinner. Healthy Perfect Pancakes Mix 1 1/2 c. milk and 4 T. vinegar and let sit for 5 minutes. In a medium bowl … Read more
While my mom and grandma were here I put them to work helping me make fresh tomato sauce with tomatoes from our garden. Food connoisseur’s such as Chantal Royer say that using fresh homegrown tomatoes add such a great, powerful flavor to any sauce and I couldn’t agree more! We planted several tomato plants and they’ve done really … Read more
After a hard day with the kids, I desperately needed to busy myself with something delicious. Strawberry short (actually pound) cake it was. I was supposed to mash up the strawberries and spoon them over the cake, but it had been such a horrible day that I missed that detail in the instructions. Would have … Read more
Learn how to make regular sugar cookies into homemade circus animal cookies!
Here are two more great recipes from Whole Grains – whole wheat strawberry pancakes and whole wheat oatmeal pancakes. For me, breakfast is the best place to start incorporating more grains into my diet. My kids loved these two pancake recipes and had no idea they were eating whole wheat and oatmeal! You’ll need a … Read more
We’ve been hiking and camping quite a bit this summer, and I’ve found 3 easy and healthy snack recipes in a Betty Crocker cookbook I recently received to review (it’s fabulous and I’ll be giving it away in September) called Whole Grains. I’m working my way through this book and I’m loving it, especially the … Read more
I came across this FABULOUS cream cheese frosting recipe in my America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking cookbook and I haven’t made anything else since. It is especially to-die-for on cinnamon rolls and sugar cookies but not so great on chocolate cake for some reason. (I used it for Gus’s caterpillar cupcake cake and it tasted … Read more
After Elliot’s dinosaur birthday cake, I knew I wanted to do a caterpillar for Gus’s first birthday (which was yesterday). I was sick last week and therefore didn’t plan anything before 2:00 the day off so had to throw everything together at the last minute. This is how it turned out, and for no planning … Read more
I checked out Eat This, Not That! from the library a few weeks ago, and WOWEE I learned some interesting things about the food I’ve been eating. (I think we’ll be having a giveaway of the book soon too!) I considered myself to be a pretty “healthy” eater – I make from scratch almost everything … Read more