One of the hardest parts about working full time and trying to take care of the needs of your family is juggling all of the things that need to be done. There’s laundry to wash, groceries to buy, school assignments to keep on top of, bills to pay, checkbooks to balance, yards to clean up, [...]
I was recently sorting through some of my kitchen cabinets trying to decide which pieces of cookware and bakeware to keep and which items needed to be replaced. I had quite a few good pots and pans that I had purchased in the couple of years that were in excellent shape, so those were a [...]
Have you taken a look at your kitchenware lately? I have and some of it isn’t very pretty. I was baking a large batch of cupcakes this weekend and couldn’t find my stainless mixing bowl anywhere. Unfortunately the glass bowl I used to use had broken some time ago, so I ended up having to [...]
Each year around this time, I buy five or six large pumpkins and turn them into pumpkin soup. Since it’s after Halloween, I can get these yummy large veggies very cheap. Here is my favorite pumpkin soup recipe. It is fast and easy to make and freezes well. I make up one pot for us [...]
For years I had been using my grandmother’s old hand mixer in my kitchen. It was not very powerful, but it was better than using a whisk for the thicker mixers or for batters that need more whipping done. But given it’s age and it’s small motor, it’s a pretty comical kitchen tool in this [...]
That wasn’t a typo I did write par-b-que purposefully. It is summer (or at least feeling like it now that Memorial Day has come and gone) and it’s time to get grilling in the backyard. Nothing says summer than a nicely grilled set of burgers with maybe some grilled corn on the cob. But grilling [...]