I love making my own yogurt for a few reasons - the main one being that I can control exactly what goes in it. If you read the ingredient list of some of the yogurts you find in the supermarket, you begin to wonder why there are so many ingredients listed. Seriously, when you make your own, the list is soooo much shorter. And when making yogurt in the crockpot is so simple, why wouldn't you do ...
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Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Carrots Recipe
Nothing compliments a holiday meal as well as a perfect side dish of sweet carrots. Slow cooker carrots are not only easy to make, the whole family loves them - even your picky eaters. Crockpot carrots are a delicious side dish for holiday dinners but also create a perfect vegetable side dish for busy weeknight dinners. This recipe uses some basic, simple ingredients and also frees up oven ...
Refried Bean Soup Recipe
I love soup, especially when the temperature drops and there is a constant chill in the air. There is something about a hot bowl of soup that just warms me up from the inside out. Considering I love Tex-Mex food too, I immediately wanted to create a Mexican-inspired soup when I partnered with our sponsors Conagra, for a quick and easy recipe post featuring Rotel and Rosarita for game ...
Easy Orange Cranberry Sauce
Cranberry sauce is one of those foods I thought I didn't like for years. I had only tasted the canned cranberry sauce and didn't realize how different (and tasty!) homemade cranberry sauce really is. Still, I avoided making it for years because I thought it must be difficult. Boy, was I wrong! It turns out that homemade cranberry sauce is super easy to make! And this easy orange cranberry sauce ...
Yogurt Horseradish Sauce for Salmon
My dad gave up eating meat a few months ago. Since our usual Easter dinner meal was the traditional ham, I needed to find an alternative for this year's dinner. I always order salmon when I eat out mostly because I love it and always figured it must be hard to prepare. Something about cooking fish always made me nervous since there is nothing I hate more than dried out, overcooked fish. Turns out ...
15 Decadent Hot Chocolate Recipes
15 of the best hot chocolate recipes on the web! To say it's been cold around here would be making a gross understatement. While I'm never a huge fan of the ice, snow, and subzero windchill, I do love an excuse to partake in one of my favorite treats - hot chocolate! But even a chocolate lover like me can get bored with the same old boring hot chocolate day after day. While you might think you ...
25 Easy Crock Pot Recipes
Crock pot recipes are a must have for any family on the go, and can even provide great options for busy college kids! They’re quick and easy, make a great heaping of food to last a few days if you love leftovers, and they’re so simple – anyone can do it! Take a look at this list of extremely simple tried and true easy crock pot recipes! 1. Crockpot Chickpea Chili [Vegetarian] 2. Crockpot ...
Need a Homemade Tomato Sauce Recipe?
If your garden is anything like mine, you have tomatoes coming out of your ears. They taste so good and are available for such a short time here. I love to turn them into yummy treats that can be used all year long and one of my favorites is homemade tomato sauce. While making your own tomato sauce may seem daunting, it's really not! Just to help you out, here are some of the best recipes out ...
20 Luscious Lemon Recipes
There are just certain fruits that say summer to me and one of those is lemons! I love lemons and try to incorporate them into as many dishes as I can. Lemons are refreshing and tart. They contain lots of vitamin C and other nutrients that are beneficial to your health. Lemons can, of course, make lemonade but they can help to infuse flavor into many more dishes. Here are 20 luscious lemon recipes ...
Creative Ways to Save Money
A while back, I was interviewed by a local writer for a piece she was doing on how local moms save a few bucks here and there. I realize that she had several other people contributing to the article and therefore was not able to use all of my brilliant inspired practical suggestions, so I thought I would publish them here.On surviving the recession:Like many families, we felt the effects of the ...