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I love to bake! Who’s with me? In fact, baking was my gateway into cooking. My grandmother worked really hard to teach me cooking basics when I was a teenager. However, I had NO interest at the time. I felt bored every time I tried to cook – like I was wasting my time…
When I think “summer,” I think of cookouts, going to the park and the pool, traveling, and potlucks. Summer food preparation, in my mind, needs to be quick and simple. No afternoons spent stirring away at the stove for me! For us, summer is a blur of activity, and I find myself needing…
Want a perfect – and fast – side dish for dinner? Microwave corn on the cob for the perfect way to serve up a nutritious and delicious vegetable in a snap. Picture this: it’s a weeknight. You just got off work and bought some corn on the cob on your way home. It sounded like…
The summer heat has officially reached Colorado. It’s that time of year when it’s just too darn hot to bake or make hot comfort food. I don’t even want to think about turning on the oven! But we don’t always have time to make this yummy ice cream. So what do we do instead? We…
Think for a moment….what do you buy and what do you make yourself? I believe there are certain things that are worth buying, but many things most people buy are better homemade. Consider that mass-produced and processed foods often contain added things that we don’t need or want: added sugar, salt, and other additives and…
We all have a favorite birthday cake, something we look forward to all year long. My kids ask for strawberry icing and sprinkles. I love a good chocolate cake with seven-minute icing. And my husband loves Chocolate Chip Cake. I make it for his birthday every year, which means I just made it….
Dinner preparation time (5pm-6pm) has always been our “witching hour” – that period of time where the kids are hungry and cranky, resulting in massive meltdowns. Yes, meltdowns – even with a 9-year-old, an 8-year-old and a 6-year-old! As a mom of three boys who bounce around from school to sports and other activities,…