Who doesn’t love to try new Fall dessert recipes?!?! A yummy Fall dessert to warm your tummy and signal the change to cooler, crisper weather. With the leaves changing colors, and the chill hanging in the air in the morning, our tastes are change from lighter foods to heartier, more substantial fare. So rejoice in the Read More
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Slow Cooker Chicken Recipes
I am always on the lookout for great (AND EASY) slow cooker chicken recipes. I love to use my slow cooker (aka crock pot) to cook dinner while I am at work, or doing more interesting things. And when cooler fall weather starts in, I dig out the slow cooker and start moving my slow Read More
National Cheesecake Day
Today (July 30th) is National Cheesecake Day! I don’t know about you, but one of our favorite desserts is cheesecake. When my oldest daughter was on a trip with her grandparents in New York, the test of any restaurant they went to for dinner was if there was cheesecake on the dessert menu – if so, Read More
Easiest Crockpot Hawaiian Chicken
I recently saw a Facebook post by a friend about a crockpot recipe for orange chicken. It was one of the those really easy recipes, with just a few ingredients but promising a great meal with no effort whatsoever. I love those kind of recipes. They make my day. So I decided to try my Read More
National Meatball Day
Today is National Meatball Day – yes, it’s true. So here are some facts about National Ball of Meat (uh, I mean Meatball) Day, straight from those fine folks at the National Day Calendar website: NATIONAL MEATBALL DAY On March 9th we celebrate one of the American food holidays, National Meatball Day. It is not Read More
Crockpot Tomato Lentil Soup
I love my slow cooker – and I love it when I find a recipe that I can use in my slow cooker that both my youngest daughter and I enjoy. I lucked out recently when I picked up the January 2015 issue of Oxygen Magazine. I haven’t picked up an issue of Oxygen fitness magazine in a VERY Read More
DIY Pillowcase with Cuff
Here is a great new project that I found – my DIY pillowcase with a cuff! I have had massive amounts of fabric in a dresser for years – owing to my enthusiasm for all those projects that I was GOING TO DO for my daughters. Well, those haven’t happened yet, and I need to Read More
Brown Sugar Pound Cake Recipe
OK, so you might recall me mentioning in a previous post (A Day Of My Own) that I remembered having a recipe that I loved, and that was well-loved by my family, for an Old Fashioned Brown Sugar Cake. And I couldn’t find said recipe, but I wanted to share it here on my blog. Read More
Men Make Dinner Day!
Guess what?! There is actually a day on the calendar where guys are supposed to make dinner. Who knew? Well, I guess I did, but that’s only because I subscribe to the National Day Calendar website – and they told me so. So … what if your guy wants to help make dinner, but doesn’t Read More
Crockpot Taco Soup
With the weather getting a little cooler, I have hauled my slow cooker out of the cupboard and am getting my pantry stocked with items for one of our favorite easy soups for fall and winter – Crockpot Taco Soup. Or Crockpot Tortilla Soup. But mine doesn’t have any tortillas in it, so I call it taco soup. Read More
Fall Wreaths – My Current DIY Project
So as I mentioned on a earlier post, Fall Bucket List, I am a little “décor challenged” when the seasons change. I often forget to put out the proper seasonal decorations that I have on hand; at least until about midway through the proper season. But this year, I have vowed to do better! So Read More
My Newest Creation – Banana Zucchini Bread!
What do you do when you have an abundance of zucchini (and let’s face it, anytime you plant a few little zucchini plants you end up with an abundance of zucchini) and an over-abundance of slightly over-ripe bananas? You try not to waste the abundance! So I was all set to bake banana bread, and Read More