We’re leaving late this week to spend Mother’s Day with my husband’s folks, so I get an easy week of trying to use up the goodies in my fridge before we head to the airport.  It makes for a particularly inexpensive week and I get to declutter a bit! (image via brazan)
M: White bean soup [...]

As you might have figured out by now I love anything in the sugar-coated or deep-fried categories.  Blessedly, this recipe fits into both, so it’s doubly wonderful.  Even better, this recipe has three great advantages:

there’s hardly any clean-up thanks to the cheater’s ziptop bag method
the children can mix it up themselves (also thanks to the [...]

This may seem like an odd time of year for applesauce, seeing as how apples are a Fall crop and the weather’s warming up nicely for Spring, but that’s actually the point of my little story here.   I got these golden delicious apples as a freebie at a farm stand (two giant boxes-full!) with grand [...]

One thing I’m in love with about my new blog design is that there’s just more space for all of the things that we do as moms.  While I truly love creating with my children, it’s not all that I do (as much as they wish that it were!) or all that I am.  There’s [...]

Rainy days breed treats (cheap, delicious entertainment!) and this past weekend was no exception.  I’d bookmarked a recipe for Baked Doughnuts on 101 Cookbooks some time ago (okay, more than a year ago), and finally got around to trying it out.

We mixed the dough up in our bread machine rather than hauling out the big [...]