When all else fails…. make cup cakes. Nothing better than warm from the oven rhubarb and oat cupcakes on a bad day. Recipe? Um, I just kind of make it up as I go along but… Cook up some rhubarb with some water, sugar and a handful of oats. Then add that to a basic […]
Rice Bubble Treat Easter Eggs!
These rice bubble treat Easter eggs are a fun sweet treat to make with your kids, and a great homemade Easter gift to give to friends and family. Rice Bubble Treat Eggs are a fun and easy-to-make Easter treat that everyone will love. These adorable egg-shaped treats are made with puffed rice cereal (rice bubbles, […]
The Story of Dash the Rooster.
*** This blog post is about killing and processing our own home grown chicken. There is no graphic images, and I don’t describe the process in detail, but if that is not you thing, that’s ok, I understand, click away now *** In the very early spring of last year Jasmine, our bantam hen, hatched […]
School Food.
We are making some progress on breakfast food options, so now it’s time to work on school food options. It would be so much easier if the girls just ate sandwiches… but no, that would be way too easy, normal and kid-like wouldn’t it!?! The thought of something squished between two slices of bread is […]
To Jam or not to Jam.
There is not much else growing in our garden (thanks to the crows and the early heat) but we do have strawberries… loads of delicious, sweet, strawberries. The big question on everyone’s lips is…. do I attempt to make Jam? Or do we just eat them? It’s on my list…. No 17. Make jam and […]
Dinners We Have Loved
There are a few meals that are requested over and over again in our house. They are pretty easy meals to prepare, which is probably the real reason why we eat the so often. Mexi Bake I found this dinner idea over at Planning With Kids and immediately knew it would appeal to my tex-mex […]
How to get Free Tomato Concentrate.
The rule for tomatoes were we live is that you wait and wait and wait and when the rest of the summer crops are all but over suddenly you get more tomatoes than you could ever dream off. We’ve eaten some in salads as they’ve ripened along with the cucumbers, but it’s now, right when […]
Camp Cooking.
Help! We are leaving for our Christmas camping adventure in a couple of days and I am trying to come up with some meal ideas for while we are away. We’ll have a decent sized gas burner to cook on, and probably access to a BBQ and possibly other ‘camp kitchen’ facilities, but no refrigeration […]