Finding Fabulous Food, Photos and Crafts to Share
Good morning! These cookies are inspired by the super awesome bakery on Main Street in St. Charles, Missouri – Sweetie Pie’s Bakery. She started decorating cakes at 14 years old and started her own business shortly after. Now at age 21, she has her own bakery and I love supporting the local shops that …
Christmas time is here! If you need a super scrumptious cookie that reminds you of all that is good about Christmas – try this recipe! This cookie is a light, buttery, full of flavor pillow of goodness I tell ya. I always try creating/tweaking a new cookie each year and this one will be added …
Book: I started Ron Chernow’s “Washington” and it reminds us how little decisions have such a big impact. How did Washington at such a young age get to where he needed to be? His family was not upper class nor lower. He may not have become a figure at all in history. But he …
Good morning! The recipe for this week is for my friend Jackie – she stayed with us for a week and Purim fell on one of those days. So, we made hamantaschen cookies. You may know them as Thumbprint cookies – and this recipe is SO easy and delicious! This weekend I had the pleasure …
NEW FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE ALERT! This is my sister’s new FAVORITE chocolate chip cookie. This is my new favorite chocolate chip cookie. And everyone around here thought they were really, really good too. So I am definitely sharing the recipe!!! And that is saying something because if you know me, I don’t care …
Book: What if we all had tags like at the greenhouse nurseries? Or what if our actions and deeds had tags as well? How different would life be? I was walking early in the morning at Home Depot because they had advertised half off roses, trees and bushes. They are pretty good prices overall anyway and …
Here are some great Easter tips and recipes if you are still searching for something to bring on Sunday. Or, if you just want something “spring”y to take to work – these cookies would work perfectly! Royal Icing Sugar Cookies (I did not use baking powder) I used an egg shaped cookie cutter from my …
I am so encouraged and inspired by all the wonderful readers on Whisk Together and Money Saving Mom following my How I Lost 33 Pounds and Kept It Off for 3 Years. A lot of great ideas in the comments as well. I tried to keep the blog post down to the essentials. Everyone is …
Book Update: This is a review and book update! The wonderful Heirloom Cookie Sheet company is creating a super awesome cookie book, and they were nice enough to ask me to be a part of it. I received a cookie sheet and a cookie recipe to make and review. The only compensation was a cookie …
Book Update: Since my last book was on exercise, I thought I would read another to answer some questions I’ve always had or challenge the view that I was taught 15 years ago while in high school. “Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?” by Alex Hutchinson is even better than the last book I read “The …
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