With young children, hand washing can be a challenge. If we use bar soap, they leave it disgusting with all of the food and dirt that they went to the sink to wash off. If we use liquid soap, they go through half a bottle by pumping and pumping because they want a handful of soap. …
I am really enjoying the monthly projects during the Food In Jars Mastery Challenge! This month our focus was supposed to be on salt preserving a fruit or vegetable. I have made preserved lemons before, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to try something new. I wanted to cure olives, but they …
My husband is a meat and potatoes kinda guy. He doesn’t like pasta or rice (he refers to it as “fluffy white nothing”), and there is no way he’d ever eat a sweet potato with dinner. Fried. Mashed. Grilled. Baked. Roasted. If it is a potato, he will eat it (well, except for potato salad, …
My in laws are coming for dinner tonight, and while we are keeping the menu simple – grilled chicken and veggies, pasta salad, and potato salad – I decided that this time I’m making my salads instead of running to the market. I haven’t made potato salad in about 10 years since I used to be …
My favorite thing about gardening has to be eating fruits and vegetables that I grew myself. Taking them from seed, raising the plant, and then harvesting the fruits and veggies to serve my family gives me such a sense of pride and accomplishment. And my absolute favorite from the garden snack – strawberries! I pick …
