On my to-do list for this week – making my own laundry detergent. Yes, I make my own laundry detergent instead of buying it at the store, and you know what, I like it more than the name brand that I grew up using. I started making my own laundry detergent about eight years ago, …
Even though we live in the middle of suburbia, we get a wide variety of wildlife. My children love watching the birds from our living room window. At various times of year, you will see doves, gold finches, blue jays, sparrows, cow birds, phoebes, hummingbirds, chickadees, cardinals, and woodpeckers all hanging out on the feeders …
On snowy days growing up, my younger brother would ask me to make him chocolate chip cookies. He would drag a chair across the kitchen and stand next to me as I would make these. Taste testing the chocolate chips, and always asking for a spoonful of cookie dough. It was the first recipe I …
Why is it that bread making gets all the oohs and aahs, but also all of the fear and anxiety? So many of my friends are amazed that I make my own bread. I love to cook and bake, and making homemade bread isn’t any harder than making homemade cookies! Yesterday, I wanted to make …
One of the things we are striving for during the Locavore Project is to reduce our consumption of pre-packaged foods. For us, that means starting to make some of our own mixes instead of purchasing them at the store. Our family has one hell of a sweet tooth! We like our desserts. We especially like …
