The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: How to Freeze Cookies for Holiday Baking Do-Aheads One thing I always tell myself I'm going to do to get a head start on the holiday baking extravaganza is to go at it slow and steady. It's what my grandmother did;…
This month's Eat Well, Spend Less topic is summer entertaining! I shared my ideas for throwing a party on a budget earlier this week, and everybody in the group is also sharing their best entertaining tips. Hospitality is not necessarily one of my gifts, but I want to want to, and I love the ideas…
The following post is from Jessica of GoodCheapEats and LifeasMOM: How Do You Serve Dinner? It wasn't until I read Laura's post a few weeks ago that I stopped to think about the different ways one could serve dinner. Certainly, we spend a lot of time talking about food shopping and preparation, but really the…
The following post is from Jessica of GoodCheapEats and LifeasMOM: Make Your Own Marinades: Orange-Ginger Marinade With summer upon us, grilling food outdoors appeals more and more. Not only do we avoid hot kitchens, but we also get a change of atmosphere and a breath of fresh air. Dining al fresco makes the experience even…
I've added two new printables to the collection, Freezer Inventory, and Food Passport, and I have to say that these may be my favorites yet! Food Passport I created the Food Passport to go along with a post I recently did over at Feels Like Home on empowering picky eaters. One of my goals this…
The following post is from Jessica of GoodCheapEats and LifeasMOM: How to Learn to Cook Learning to cook good food is a science as well as an art. There's an element of food science and chemical reactions to consider. Some mixtures work. Others don't. But there's also a creative side to cooking: combining flavors, textures,…
The following post is from Tara of Feels Like Home: My kid likes to cook. I dare say she loves to cook! She doesn’t care whether she’s cooking in her play kitchen, or if she’s cooking in my kitchen. She just likes to cook. Whenever I’m in the kitchen, trying to prepare food, Grace wants…
The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family - Cooking 101: How to Hard Boil Eggs Hard-boiled eggs are like candy around these parts. My kids will eat them plain or with a sprinkling of salt and pepper for any meal of the day. I'm not complaining, as they're an easy meal…
The following post is from Jessica of GoodCheapEats and LifeasMOM: I am no cake expert. In fact, I prefer pie. But, my family loves cake. And since they won't let me bake them birthday pies, over the years, I've learned a few tricks to making fun cakes for family birthdays and special occasions. I've never…
How food, especially meats, is stored is important so that the food is safe to consume. The right internal temperature must be reached when cooking meats. Always use a food thermometer to test for the internal temperature of the item you are cooking. Just looking at the food, you can’t tell if it is fully…