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My Daughter’s Snack Recipe
I don’t remember when my daughter started helping me in the kitchen. Was it at age 3 or was it even younger? I remember her taking initiative making us snacks not even a mother could love. Now that she’s 8 she’s become quite a cook. She can cook her own breakfast eggs. She’s been my…
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Mini Cinnamon Rolls
Whenever I make pies I wind up with extra dough from the pie crust. I hate throwing anything away, especially my pie crust. It’s so good! So I’ll tell you what I do. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix up organic sugar and organic cinnamon. I’d say about 1 teaspoon cinnamon to about 1/4…
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Chicken Pot Pie
A friend once told me that one night each winter his whole family gets together for Pie Night. Everyone brings a pie. Some bring dessert pies, others bring meat pies. Pies are so wonderful in the winter. Pies stay warm for a long time and warms the heart all night. Pie Crust This is the…
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Cranberry Apple Crisp
It’s Christmas Eve, the wee one is asleep and we’re finishing up the last of the presents. Time for a little midnight snack. This Cranberry Apple Crisp makes kissing by the Christmas tree taste so good! Ingredients: 3 organic granny smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced into 1/2 inch strips 6 oz fresh cranberries 1/4…
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Gingerbread Cookies
It’s the afternoon before Christmas Eve, and my 8-year-old daughter is itching for something to do. Presents are wrapped. Too early for a movie. We turn into Cookie Monsters and bake up a batch of Gingerbread Cookies! Ingredients: 3/4 cup (or 1 1/2 sticks) organic butter 3/4 cups organic brown sugar 1/2 cup molasses 1…
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Chalkboard Linen Closets
Since we moved into this old ranch-style farmhouse in the winter, we did not want to paint the walls and be stuck indoors with the smell of fumes. But there are child’s scribbles on some parts of the walls including these white linen closets. I tried and tried to scrub them off but they would…
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Chicken Kitchen
We just recently moved to an old ranch-style farmhouse on a 3.6 acre property. There’s a lot to do, and many springtime dreams of starting a garden, raising chickens and a beehive. Upon move-in, though, my first priority was to clean and set up the kitchen. Let me show you our kitchen, the Chicken Kitchen.…
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How to Make an Evergreen Wreath the Hard Way
Our Christmas tree is up! With the move we were a little worried we wouldn’t get our Christmas tree up in time, but we made it. We had to cut off the lowest branches to make our tree fit our stand, so I had a lot of extra branches to make a wreath with. Only…
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Crunchy Pizza
Shakey’s Pizza in the Philippines has this super awesome pizza on their menu: Pepperoni Crunch. It’s a thin-crust pepperoni pizza with potato strings on top to make it crunchy! We’d order that with a tall tower of rootbeer and some mojos. Delish! Now that we’re back stateside, we miss it. So I got out my…
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Granola Recipe
Warm freshly baked granola is a breakfast treat. Cold not so freshly baked granola is fun snack. You could put it in a mason jar and give it away for Christmas too. Here’s how to make it. Ingredients: 4 cups old fashioned rolled oats 1 cup raw wheat germ 1 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 cup…