Tips and Tricks to organizing your home
More recipes I’m always discovering some great sites for recipes. Here are a few new ones: For soup lovers: Seriously Soupy For cheap dinners: Five Dollar Dinners For chocolate lovers, like me!: Chocolate Butterscotch popcorn – can you say YUMMY?!? To even out that sweet calorie filled popcorn, find out how to make healthy popcorn [...]
Handmade gift idea Bake some delicious cookies and present them in a beautiful gift package created from a Pringles can. This is a great idea for a back-to-school gift for your child’s new teacher. Add a tag saying “Have a great year!” to the front. Find the recipe and package creation instructions at The Paper [...]
Easy Breakfast Casserole I made this Green Eggs and Ham Our Way breakfast casserole this week, and it was a hit. Letting kids assemble their own mini version is a great activity for a girl’s sleepover party. Are you “emotionally unprepared” for that new dress? After writing the article about irrational purchases recently, I laughed [...]
Make your own frappuccino and save $$$ 14 coffee recipes and 7 other ways to use leftover coffee. I’m sipping on a homemade frappuccino as I write this. Delicious! A free cookbook from a fabulous chef I enjoy cooking more when I’m trying out a new recipe. Chef Tom has a wonderful blog full of [...]
Yummy Pancakes I am the worst pancake maker. They always turn out thin and rubbery, so I can’t wait to try out a new pancake recipe as well as a few others from DelightfulRepast.com Boost Energy 21 ways to boost your energy has some great tips on how to get your energy back. I’m going [...]
A collection of cool stuff I found this week: Environmentally conscious toothbrush Radius Toothbrush makes an environmentally conscious toothbrush. You can replace the tops of the brush! I discovered this thanks to Random Recycling. How to make a grocery bag holder My sister knitted a grocery bag holder for me that I love. I was [...]
What’s for dinner tonight? Credit for these quick and easy dinners goes to my good friend Melissa, a busy mom of 5 kids who also owns a photography business. She certainly knows how to serve up a delicious dinner in a matter of minutes. Check out her gorgeous photography at: www.contemporarycaptures.com/blog Stuffed Pasta Shells with [...]
It’s 6:00 pm and you, tired and hungry, are just walking in the door. Whether you have had a stressful day at the office, just finished a chaotic taxi shift to various activities with the kids, or simply forgot to defrost the meat for dinner, you want something easy and fast. The kids are revolting [...]
What do you do with the stack of recipes you want to try? You know…that pile of paper you ripped out of magazines, printed from online, or a friend emailed you. Mine were just stuck in a file and forgotten about until I found a great solution. Easily organize them into your own custom cookbook [...]
