We had a little party in the garden to celebrate the summer solstice. It was a quick one because I had to milk the goats right after so that I was not doing that in the dark! For this party I made the 1-2-3-4 yellow cake in Joy of Cooking and then iced it with...

I have entered this post into the annual Bon Appetit Holiday Dessert Bake-Off and I would be deeply thankful if you would follow THIS LINK and vote for my entry! I have been fretting over this post for DAYS. I have been conceptualizing, racking my culinary brains, wondering if this entry should be super child friendly...

So by now, even MY garden (Humble Garden) is starting to produce, after months of rain of biblical proportions. My pickling cucumbers are growing, green beans and lemon cukes are whats for supper, and zucchinis are starting to really outpace our intake! Anyone who gardens will eventually need to preserve or put up some...

I recently received a case of really cute 8 ounce POM pomegranate juices sent to me by the kind people at POM Wonderful. Pomegranates are the mythical or iconic symbol of fertility…… To read more of this review, please visit the Papaya Ice Cream with POM syrup...

Today was my middle daughter’s 5th birthday. She asked for pink and she got a bit of pink. See for yourself...

Yummmm, sugar cookies. I know its only November but the holidays are really just around the corner. Once Halloween is gone, it seems like its a full-on sprint into the winter holidays. If you have the time, one nice way to open the season is to make a batch of beautiful sugar...

We are just at peak fall color here, mother nature has decided to cool off, the kids are wearing their Halloween costumes all day long, and it feels like fall to me, finally. We were expecting lows of 29 F last night so I had to put row covers over the spinach, bell peppers,...

This last August 22nd, my middle child turned 4 years old. Life becomes very full when you have three kids, one being all of 10 months, and you homeschool and you are dedicated to starting a new direction in your working life. So full that time zips past ferociously fast. So fast that when you look at the...

(Chocolate Coconut Hedgie Cookies) I am a super bad mom, I really am. Once the caffeine hit the system this morning I jumped up and baked these cookies (the dough was in the fridge overnight). The bad part is that we essentially had these for breakfast. We are going to have a second course of...

[This post appeared on the Paper Palate blog, a member of the Well Fed Network] (Source: Hoffman Media, click image to go to magazine order page) I watch only a few shows on the Food Network, two of those being Alton Brown’s “Good Eats” and Paula Deen’s “Home Cooking“. I do not watch the “Paula’s Party” show...