Make these naturally dyed heart pancakes for an unforgettable Valentine’s Day breakfast. Use whole ingredients and a delicious homemade pancake recipe for a simple breakfast your kids will love. Naturally Dyed Heart Pancakes Nothing can beat homemade pancakes unless you add a cute little accent that your whole family will love. They don’t take too much extra …
Chocolate Oatmeal Thumbprint Cookies are a fantastic oatmeal banana cookie. These healthy cookies for kids are quick and easy thumbprint cookies. They are even flourless oatmeal cookies, so they’re perfect if you need a gluten-free cookie! Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and …
The thumbprint cookie is such a classic cookie. I have memories of eating handfuls of them off the dessert table at Christmas. We combined the thumbprint cookie with our toddler cookies and created this simple and delicious treat! Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link …
This chorizo stuffing is perfect for any holiday dinner. It’s simple to put together and full of flavor! Chorizo Stuffing If there’s one thing that every holiday spread needs it’s stuffing! The one thing about stuffing… Everyone makes it different. In the past, we shared with you a tasty classic homemade stuffing recipe. While that …
Earlier this year I shared with you how we love to make brined pumpkin seeds… now I want to share with you a way to season them for the perfect combination of sweet and savory. We always make a batch of classic seeds, a mixture of sea salt and seasoning salt, but this year we …
We love to carve pumpkins and we love our pumpkins seeds. This is another one of My Man’s specialties. A few years back he started to make Brined Pumpkin Seeds. We have never looked back!Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we …
When Little Miss asked for a Dragons: Race To The Edge party, one of the first things she said she wanted was a dragon cake. Not just any dragon….a Toothless Cake. If you follow along with us, you know that chemical food dye is never on our party supply list. So I was faced with …
Watermelon is one of my go-to party foods. It’s pretty universally liked, easy to serve, and reasonably priced. For Little Miss’ Dragon Party, I thought the food table was missing a little something. So I tried my hand at my first ever watermelon carving and made a watermelon dragon. What you need for your watermelon …
I love cooking with kiddos. They love to be my little helper, and I love seeing them get excited when they do something new. Almost every night they come up to me with their cutie patootie eyes and ask to help make dinner. Most nights I’m all for it. Even if it just means that …
We love pancakes in our house….who doesn’t?!?! We both had a go to homemade pancake recipe. But we both also kept tweaking it every time we made it. So we changed it. A couple years ago, we both realizd that we were using the same recipe from Laura Fuentes. They were nice and fluffy and …
If your days go anything like ours it is non-stop. From the moment we wake to the moment our heads hit the pillow there is always something to get done. If my day gets away from me it is often dinner plans that get put on the back burner. Having a few easy prep, low …
There are times you get to a holiday party and you bring your go to dish. Some artichoke dip or a buffalo chicken spread, then there are times you want to step it up a notch… These PiggyBack Shrimp will have people begging you for the recipe. At least I did. The first time I …
A sweet potato casserole with pecans that’s so good, you won’t miss the marshmallows! It’s sweet, with a great texture. Possibly my favorite holiday side dish!! Sweet Potato Casserole I’ve been making Thanksgiving dinner for several years now. It’s my holiday. I’m kind of a nerd about it. A couple of years ago, I vowed …
What is better than pretzels dunked in chocolate??? When there is something yummy stuffed inside! You can whip up a batch of these stuffed chocolate covered pretzels in minutes and that’s about how long they will last in your house! One of my go-to lunchbox dishes for J are these little cream cheese pretzel …
I have always been a fan of packing J’s lunch, for many food related reasons. This year I am upping my game to strive for a waste free lunch as well. The sheer volume of plastic waste being created, each and every day, for consumer convenience is shocking. This post contains affiliate links. Don’t worry, …
I Love chocolate!! If it’s around I eat it… If it’s not around, I crave it! So when Mama H emailed me a recipe handed down from her mother for Zucchini Brownies I had to try them. I mean they contain veggies, that makes them almost healthy brownies…right?!?! We all have those recipes. The ones …
Sometimes you’re craving a simple, sweet, crisp side dish. Let me introduce you to a new little salad that Hubby created. When he first suggested this combo, I will admit…I was a bit skeptical. It was so refreshing and tasty, I knew I had to share it. The ingredient list is simple: 1 Mango 1 …
It’s just another week night dinner. You make the same old thing from your arsenal, at least that’s how it goes in our house!! Every once in awhile you bring in something new, but if it isn’t easy and quick it wont make it to the rotation. Boy do I have a food muse for …