Apricot Pork Tenderloin (Book Review: Simply Suppers by Jennifer Chandler)
This is how I think the universe works. When you want something very badly, you can usually pull it out of the ether and into your reality. Somehow.Sometimes, all it…
Handmade, Do-It Yourself, Homemade STICKER BOOKS!!!!!!
When I was a kid, I collected. I collected shells. I collected rocks. I collected leaves. I collected Garbage Pail Kids, Cabbage Patch Dolls, and fish (dead ones). There were…
Homemade Garlic Soup – How To Cure An Upset Stomach
It’s 12:30 am.There’s a knock on my bedroom door.It’s Shelbi. “Mommy, I don’t feel good.”I roll myself out of bed, head first, completely out of it because I had only just…
Caramel Chocolate Apple Nachos sprinkled with Nuts
I laid my sweetums gingerly on the couch to change her diaper.I unbuttoned her onesie, and look what I found. Three Honey Flavored Annie’s Bunny Treats. Little niblets stowed away…
Baked Onion Rings and International Gratitude Day
My symbol for the infinite.My 4 year old daughter’s name, Soledad, means solitude. Some people look quizzical when they ask for the meaning. I think it’s because they think solitude inherently means…
Roasted Banana Pepper BLT with cheese
This question is purely hypothetical.What if ‘someone’ decided to get some fancy pants?And in those fancy pants she decided to build a garden. And that garden grew, and grew, and…
Lemon Blueberry Muffins
My flat iron just bit the dust.It’s the second one in the last two months to meet such a fate. The fourth over the last 4 years. And that darn…
The Best Homemade Salsa You’ve Ever Had
I have a very spicy 4 year old. And oh, is she completely saucy. Just dip a chip in her, and you’ll be eatin’ for days.She recently started preschool. Exhibit…
Fish Tacos with Creamy Dill Sauce
I was brushing Bella’s hair the other day, and we decided to go for something a little different. Curls.Me: Oh Belly, you look so cute!Bella: Yeah, just like I went…
Chickpea and Apple Brownies
Feebs still can’t walk. Whatever. We aren’t really shocked. She’s just not interested, and no amount of cajoling is going to get her to shake a tail feather.She can however,…