how a foodie feeds a family
Snickers Salted Caramel Apple Pie recipe has a salted caramel peanut apple filling, topped with fluffy nougat, chocolate, and all held in peanut pie crust.
Years ago apple picking season was a very anticipated and highly documented event in our family. A trip to the apple orchard meant apple-inspired ensembles, a full on photo shoot, and picking a small fortune in apples. All of this, of course, happened in the 45 minutes when no child required a nap or feeding.
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Two steps and you are done! This Easy Cream of Roasted Tomato Basil Soup is rich, creamy, and extremely flavorful, yet it requires hardly any work.
We’ve been rescuing more garden tomatoes from frost than is feasibly possible to consume. The tomatoes are very thankful to not be rotting on the vines (yes, my tomatoes confide in me like that). However, now they’re giving me the stink eye from their new shelter. What was the point of bringing them in if they are now going to rot on my dining room table?
Well, Tomatoes, the problem is you can kind of be a labor intensive, drag fest. Any recipe that would remotely put a dent in the mass of you requires blanching, peeling, de-seeding, and canning. Ugh. No time for that craziness.…
Butterscotch Apple Cheesecake Bars has simple, no fuss ingredients and easy prep, but makes one legendary apple bar recipe!
The end of summer is never a welcomed time. Especially when you live in Indiana and a whole lot of dreary skies are in your forecast. But first you get to soak up fall – sunny, crisp days, leaves changing, apple picking, and making these Butterscotch Apple Cheesecake Bars.
Oh yeah. And if you’re lucky enough to be moi – YOUR LAST KID FINALLY STARTS PRESCHOOL.…
Spiked Lemon Shake-Up Cocktail is your classic vodka lemonade drink brought to the next level. It’s still quick and easy to throw together, but has a fresher taste, just like those timeless lemon shake-ups enjoyed at fairs and festivals.
All kids experience grievances they vow to never put their own kids through. I swore I’d utilize my thermostat to actually make my children’s living environment comfortable. I would never force my kids to use prison grade toilet paper. (Which, Mom and Dad, I’m calling total B.S. on. You still have the septic system, yet now you luxuriously wipe with finely quilted 4-ply.) Furthermore, if clothes were unquestionably out-of-style, they would stop being passed on to unaware younger siblings. Even if kids are oblivious to their fashion faux pas, photographs can bear witness for decades to come.…
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It’s hard to believe four simple ingredients makes something as tasty as these Easy Gluten Free Zucchini Pancakes. We enjoyed these all summer long, especially when I needed to use up a ton of zucchini. Easy gluten-free zucchini pancakes are a quick, simple, and healthy dinner side dish the whole family will love.
Growing zucchini is kind of like having a newborn. In theory, it sounds like a good idea, but, when it’s all said and done, escaping Thunderdome is probably less taxing. It’s hard to comprehend just how much work it entails until you’re released from the burden of it. As of yesterday, though, my seasonal zucchini hard labor is officially over.
When I saw the dying zucchini plants I felt such a sense of relief. After stocking my freezer with various types of zucchini muffins, zucchini bread, and a whole lot of these easy gluten-free zucchini pancakes I was more than ready to call time of death. Die already, you sons of bitches! They had relentlessly squeezed every last zucchini recipe out of me….
Bacon Roasted Green Beans and Potatoes are an all-time favorite summer time side dish of ours. We always have plenty of green beans from the garden on hand, it takes only minutes to prepare, and the bacon crisps and flavors the vegetables perfectly.
There’s too many spreading wings around here for this mama bird to handle. Now Elliot’s a bonafide preschooler, Finn’s started kindergarten, Nolan’s in 4th, and Clara…I can’t even…a middle schooler. Ew. Hate it.
The toughest pill to swallow has been Clara’s middle school status. I’m entering unchartered parental waters. My unfamiliarity, plus lack of glowing anecdotes about adolescent girls, makes me very apprehensive. I’m inevitably doomed, aren’t I?
Clara’s always been exceptionaly sweet, selfless, accommodating, and open, so years of surly, disheartening behavior seems inconceivable. (This is where I’d like to take credit for all the legwork I put into turning out such an extraordinary human being. Thank you. The time and effort was non-existent because she was born with a personality far superior to mine truly extensive). Do hormones just come along and take a big, fat dump on all that delightfullness?…
