I woke up it to snowing this morning. After a night of not much sleep and several days of stress with a kid with the flu, it was the last thing I wanted to see. So I took some advice and made some homemade bread and soup. Cold weather screams homemade bread to me for …
Breakfast is a nutritionally important meal of the day. But I also find it to be an emotionally important meal. When I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, I need a good breakfast to help me turn my day around. And it really works. No bowls of cold cereal. I need warm …
A year and a half ago, I visited my in-laws. My mother-in-law was on a very strict low carb diet at the time. The day before I arrived, however, she had a bit of a fall out with her diet. Now, while most of us would go for cake and cookies and ice cream, she …
I waxed so philosophical about hating recipes that only use part of a can of pumpkin. Yet, I frequently find myself making them anyway. Oops. But I’m getting more creative in ways to use up the extra pumpkin. Pumpkin in oatmeal seems like a logical choice. You already put in brown sugar and cinnamon, which …
I know I complained about all the pumpkin recipes on the internet a couple weeks ago. And I still stand by my statement that the food world should not revolve around pumpkin in the fall, even though it does. Most of them call for only part of a can of pumpkin, which is high on …
Sometimes I surprise myself at how big of a mess I can make of a recipe. The first time I made these pancakes, I more than doubled the flour because I was trying to go from memory rather than look at my phone again. To make them work, I added unknown amounts of milk, yogurt, …
I’m posting yet another recipe that requires the oven and another bread recipe. I know. But I’m hoping that as not sweltering pregnant ladies, you will be open to actually turning yours on. And we all love carbs, let’s be real. Obviously, my family really liked this recipe, or I wouldn’t be posting it here. …
Do you go in food phases? Or am I just a crazy pregnant lady? Maybe don’t answer that second one. I am in a total muffin craze the last few months. I am either making muffins, planning to make muffins, or thinking out what ingredients I have to make them. The only good thing is …
Two startling realizations popped into my head last night. First, I don’t remember the last time I purchased a pre-made bread product (sandwich, bagel, bun, etc). This made me feel almost Amish and weird. I used to read blogs about women who made all their own bread and think, “Don’t they have anything better to …
Pancake Day is next Tuesday. Even though I don’t participate in Lent, I can appreciate any excuse to eat pancakes. Since my little girl asks for “pancakes with dip” almost anytime I ask her what she wants to eat, I know she will enjoy the holiday too. Our family does breakfast for dinner once a …
