I mostly rotate my kids school lunches between my buttery baked sweet rolls with ham, cheese and pepperoni sandwiches, pizza English muffins, plain old sandwiches, leftovers, grilled cheese and these turkey melts. I don’t have a great kid sandwich bread recipe (I’ve tried for years and have yet to succeed here) so I buy this…
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Baked potato hack
Our after school schedule is crazy busy so I like to prepare ahead for dinner as much as possible. This baked potato and baked sweet potato hack is one of my new favorite go-to meal prep ideas. Rinse and dry potatoes. Place any amount of sweet potatoes and/or russet potatoes in your crock pot. You…
Spice trick
Do your small children refuse to eat the green things floating in their soup? Mine are used to it now, but when they were little, they didn’t like the green spices floating around in their chicken noodle soup. I found this little strainer ball at the grocery one day and I put my spices in…
Sourdough Saturday
It’s a sourdough kind of Saturday. I made my white sourdough boule that tastes great as a side for dinner, as sandwich bread (blts are perfect on this bread), toasted or just hot out of the oven with butter. I also made my whole spelt sourdough boule, which tastes best as toast for an open…
I like it a Latte!
Starting the day with a dose of calcium! The Nespresso milk frother is one of my favorite kitchen tools. I have tried many frothers over the years and this one seems to work the best, especially when the milk is fresh. I like it a latte! Try it – it’s so good! And good for…
Frozen Pork Shoulder
I didn’t plan my meals this week and I needed something easy for dinner. We buy beef, pork and chicken in bulk and store it frozen. So… planning a meal the day of is often difficult because I have to thaw the meat. However, I experimented today and it worked! I put a 5-6 lb…
Wholly Fed 