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Salad bar dining is fun year round, but especially in the summertime.  I found these cute little mason jars in Target’s good old Dollar Spot marked down from $3 US to half price, and my mind started envisioning creative ways to use them.  So I filled my cart.  Oh, Target!  You know how that works. […]

My kids and I really like going to Souper! Salad! to enjoy a buffet style salad bar, soups, pizza, pasta, ice cream and more.  Isaac loves it because he can fill his school lunch inspired tray with everything he wants. Hannah likes everything, so any kind of smorgasbord sounds good to her. We went there […]

From our family to yours, we wish you the very best National Praline Day ever! It’s apparently a thing.  I never knew until a few days ago when I checked Google for food holidays in the United States.  One day last year I was craving pecan pie, so I baked one in the middle of […]

Cake for breakfast isn’t something I would want all the time, but yesterday I was in the mood for strawberry shortcake.  I had some whipping cream in the refrigerator, but am saving it for making pralines. I wondered how the flower-shaped cupcakes I had just baked would taste in a French toast style, covered with […]

Happy first day of summer! We have been blessed with two sons and two daughters, half of whom still live at home, Hannah, 14, and Isaac, 5.  Our two older children have always been adventurous at eating most foods, and Hannah is perhaps the least picky eater of them all. Isaac, on the other hand, […]

After I posted about my plans for making breakfast burritos for Father’s Day, I decided to rename them since most people in Austin, Texas, where I live call them breakfast tacos.  They’re kind of a big deal here, and the variety and availability are rather impressive. You can easily pick up a breakfast taco at […]

If dishes, place settings and tabletop fashions bore you, I recommend that you skip this post.  Because I’m about to give hunting and gathering tips to those who may be as smitten over eye catching plates and such as I am. Aqua and blue are my new favorite color combination.  Last week I was looking […]

With my Pampered Chef fluted baking stone, the bundt pan, I baked one of the easiest cakes around, called Chocolate 1-2-3 Cake today for my daughter’s birthday party. All you do is add three ingredients to a chocolate cake mix and bake it at 350 F for 45 minutes and add a glaze or ganache […]

Happy Flag Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Election Day or any other American flag themed holiday! These United States Rice Krispy flag treats are a big hit with the kids, big and small.While these babies are a bit time consuming to make considering, there are only three ingredients. Luckily the end results make the efforts […]

The way to my husband’s heart, or at least his stomach, this Father’s Day is going to be with my homemade breakfast burritos, which he loves. A friend from Colorado, Fran, taught me how to make these years ago.  Since I’m such a visual person, I find this style of tutorial to be helpful and […]