The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: Food Science Camp: Dill Pickles In the summer, when the weather is hot, the cucumber vines produce plump green orbs at a crazy rate. Unable to possibly consume them all in the amount of time it takes them to grow, it's…
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 Shaina of Food for My Family: Food Science Camp: Ice Cream in a Bag Summer is officially underway! The first week was exciting, the second was filled with camp and plenty of activities for the younger kids while their sister was away, and the last was summer. Hot and sticky…
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…
The following post is from Selena Moffitt of 1 Mom’s Mission: Man-Made vs. God-Made Foods We pour cereal out of the box and give our kids animal-shaped crackers. Do you ever wonder if they realize that this is truly non-food? Do we realize it? What do kids think about vegetables? How do they compare it…
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,…
If I have any regrets about my tabletop garden, it's that we only built one and that there's not more for me to do since it's so easy to take care of. I love going out to check on and water my garden each day, and there are definitely days I wish there was more…
To be honest, I'd never even heard of an immersion blender until last fall, but when I saw this Cuisinart Hand Blender on Amazon, I couldn't resist the price! Fast forward a couple of months, and that silly thing was still in its box. But I was searching for a snack one evening and decided…