Jun 22, 2015 | Desserts, Lunch, Salads, Sides
There’s nothing I love more than a huge fruit salad on a hot summer day. No, I take that back. There’s nothing I love more than a huge fruit salad on any day when someone else washes, cuts and makes that delicious fruit salad. In reality though, the person...
Jun 4, 2015 | Appetizers, Dinner, Lunch, Ten-Minute Meals
Every once in awhile, a little small miracle occurs around the dinner table. (Well, in full confession, it happened around the TV, but since I recommend fighting for family dinners around the table, we’ll just pretend for the sake of the greater good.) A miracle...
Aug 18, 2014 | Dinner, Kitchen Tips, Lunch, Meal Plan
It was over 15 years ago when I first used America’s beloved Crescent roll dough to a form a braid; a delicious, edible, almost gourmet like, braid that I could serve. Not only serve to guests because it was so impressively pretty, but also serve to my family on...
Apr 2, 2014 | Appetizers, Breakfast, Cooking with Kids, Lunch
I’ll never forget the first month I sent our 17 year old son to public school. Homeschooled since Kindergarten, but needing to be on a public school football team to receive scholarship offers, it was a whole new world. Now, you’d think that possibly the...
Jan 16, 2014 | Appetizers, Dinner, Large Groups, Lunch, Meal Plan
To open one’s home to others and welcome them to share life with you is one of the greatest gifts we have, yet often we allow our house, budget, decor, cooking skills and a host of other excuses get in the way of our hospitality. Our family has gone through two...
Dec 9, 2013 | Appetizers, Dinner, Lunch
Stuffed Pizza Puffs This past weekend, iconic football games lured my guys to the TV for more hooping and hollering than I have heard in a long time. That says a LOT considering I sit through more noise than any one mom’s poor ear drums should have to put up...