Finding Fabulous Food, Photos and Crafts to Share
Firstly, I wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. No, I am not blogging on Christmas morning 🙂 These blog posts are usually written and then scheduled for the morning. Some of us are busy. Some of us may finally have the time to sit and read a blog post instead of …
Books: Kiddo is back in school and that means more reading books around his level. We have been reading “Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin” by Liesl Shurtliff. The kids are just loving it because the main character’s name refers to a “butt”, so anything butt/fart related is of course instantly amusing to kids. So …
Book: Still reading “When to Rob a Bank” and having to explain each time that I’m not really going to rob a bank! And the one small chapter about robbing banks basically is that there is no good day to rob a bank (duh) and that there is a way to do it. But most …
Exercise: This 35 minute HIIT challenge will challenge you. Everything you may hate in a workout all in one! 🙂 Jumping lunges, burpees AND star jumps. One of those workouts that “hurts so good.” Book: “Death by Food Pyramid” by Denise Minger is my new book for the week. It has a lot of …
Book: I have found another Alton Brown book! How does he have the time? Well, anyway it is “I’m Just Here for More Food: Version 2.0 Baking”. This is probably the BEST baking book out there for understanding baking. I love love love King Arthur Flour and all of their recipe books. But, if …
We are still in peak holiday season, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t prep for the rest of the day’s nutrition before the cookies and candy come. This week – in addition to a Minecraft birthday party celebration (a future blog post)- I have been researching smoothies and how to get maximum nutrition into …
Well… this WAS made to pair with my caramel corn. But the caramel corn burned the first time (pan was on the lower rack instead of middle-upper rack) and the caramel cooked too long the second time (because I was chopping apples to make apple butter). What did I learn so you don’t have to? …
*Book Update*: I finished Shawn Anchor’s “Happiness Advantage” and continued on to his second book “Before Happiness.” Some interesting tidbits: a 1968 study yielded what we call the “Pygmalion Effect” basically proving child test scores rising simply because they were held at higher expectations. Anchor conducted a study in regards to work, but instead …
This recipe is from the Caribbean and Latin America. Traditionally, the batido or “fruit shake” is made with any tropical fruit like pineapple, banana, mango, papaya, guava and passion fruit. In the photo, I used strawberries because we had a lot of them to use up before going moldy. Frozen fruit can be used …
I finished “The Chaperone” by Laura Moriarty. I was pretty good and neat to read about the era of silent movies and prohibition. **Recipe** I was trying to use up my carrots and pineapple and arrived at this recipe. If you like pineapple and coconut combos, then you will like this recipe! PrintPineapple Coconut Muffins …
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