applesauce & other food stuff
12 Mar 2012 1 Comment
in food, photography Tags: crockpot applesauce, homemade applesauce
One of our favorite treats around the house is homemade applesauce, which I make using a simple crockpot recipe that I adapted slightly from a friend- I also make double what the original recipe calls for (I don’t think it made nearly enough), so I’ll include the basic recipe at the end.
strawberry jam
17 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in food Tags: homemade jam, homemade strawberry freezer jam
Sometimes, you are meant to do something.
birthday
04 Feb 2012 6 Comments
in family, food, photography Tags: birthdays, homemade cheese
Today is my birthday! I’m celebrating 25 years young and looking forward to many lovely birthdays ahead of me.
Terry surprised me with a little sheep & bird knick-knack that I saw in the store the other day. He was pretty sneaky & managed to buy it before we left the store without me knowing! And of course, he found me a pink gift tag out of our large collection. Such a sweetheart! Oh the Meercat & Moose nicknames? Long, silly story falling back to when we were dating in college… and they’ve never gotten old :o)
My sweet daughters have made the day enjoyable, as they do every day! And in the spirit of my birthday, they have been a little less off-the-walls than usual. I’ll take it.
I’m cooking homemade spaghetti sauce in the crockpot for my special birthday meal of spaghetti and sausage. The house smells delicious.
I’m also making ricotta cheese out of the leftover whey that we have from making mozzarella cheese yesterday. If you ever have the time/ opportunity to make (or at least try!) homemade mozzarella, it is delicious and surprisingly easy to make as long as you are patient. The ricotta is even easier, as you simply warm the whey, let it sit and scoop the curds out. Yummy! I’ll be posting actual recipes for our cheeses later (as long as I remember!).
I am excited for this afternoon, when the girls will help me make a whole wheat chocolate cake and maple buttercream icing! I can’t wait for Terry to get home to share it with us.
Thanks for reading and sharing my birthday with me :o)
wordless wednesday: unhealthy breakfast
01 Feb 2012 2 Comments
in food, photography, wordless wednesday Tags: wordless wednesday
the best parts of waking up
16 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
(and no, Folgers is not, nor will it ever be, the best part of waking up for me)
homemade ginger cookies
15 Jan 2012 3 Comments
I love this recipe. It is easy (and forgiving if your kids each sneak a BIG taste of the batter!) and they turn out delicious.
I was feeling lazy, so my ginger cookies were larger than I’d normally make, but they are just as good! The smaller you make them, the more ‘ginger snap like’ they become.
for the love of tea
26 Oct 2011 3 Comments
I never realize how much tea I buy until I need to re-organize it because it doesn’t fit in my tea canister.
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some mornings
15 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
in children, family, food, parenting
There are plenty of mornings that we as a family just can’t get it together. We all wake up at odd times, some of us take a little longer to actually start functioning for the day, some of us are more cranky than others.
Then there are mornings like today. Mama wakes up an hour early and has the chance to relax, read and slowly wake up without children jumping on the bed or causing chaos in their bedrooms.
honeycomb
14 Mar 2011 5 Comments
in food
Mmm <3
When I stopped in to one of my favorite stores to pick up some local raw honey today, I was thrilled to find that the same farm I buy honey from had fresh honeycomb for sale as well! I picked some up, since Terry has wanted to try it. More
fighting colds
03 Oct 2010 2 Comments
in children, family, food, parenting Tags: Ariana, Harper, illness
My least favorite part of the weather changing is the fact that every year, I inevitably catch a cold. I sleep as much as I can, drink herbal tea with honey and lemon, sip chicken broth and kick the cold to the curb within a few days.
Unfortunately this year, I am not sick.
“Wait,” you say to yourself, “weren’t you just complaining about catching a cold?”
Why yes I was. The problem is that my babies have both caught colds. It breaks my heart to hear their tiny coughs, to see the red spots under their noses from wiping off the runniness.
