At this time of year, when I start seeing pumpkins showing up on from porches, my thoughts go to baking seasonal treats. While apples usually rank high on my list of baking ingredients, I love pumpkin also.
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Category Archives: Kitchen
Peanut Butter and Jelly Pie Rolls
If you have a peanut butter and jelly lover in your household, you might want to try out this tasty peanut butter and jelly pie roll recipe. These make great snacks for after school or anytime, and taste wonderful whether they are served hot or cold.
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20 Creative Kitchen Organizing Ideas
I was inspired to create this kitchen organizing ideas round-up because soon I am going to be moving into an apartment with a kitchen that is half the size of my current kitchen — there are half as many cupboards and even fewer drawers! Yikes!
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The 5 Best Essential Oils to Flavor Water
Essential oils are a great way to flavor your water, giving it a crisp and refreshing flavor or a floral, herbal flavor that you would get from tea. It doesn’t take a lot to flavor water either, just a drop or two into a personal glass of water and a little more to a pitcher of iced water does the trick. If you want to add essential oils for other benefits, health and wellness, there are several options that you can use too.
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Coconut Truffles Recipe
With all of the hype about coconut oil and coconut water, I figured why not have some fun in the kitchen with coconut. Granted, these amazing coconut truffles aren’t healthy for you, like the other coconut options I mentioned, but — believe me — they are worth the calories!
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21 Paleo Dinner Ideas
The more I read about paleo diets, the more I like what I am reading. My first thought about trying to come up with paleo dinner ideas was there wouldn’t be much variety… What I learned once I started searching around was that I couldn’t be more wrong about that. Not only did I find a nice variety of paleo dinner ideas, I found several that I am sure my family will love.
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How to Hard Boil Eggs
For some reason, it seems like I rarely make hard boiled eggs. Other than boiling eggs to color for Easter, I make them maybe 2 or 3 times a year to make potato salad and deviled eggs. Although I love egg salad sandwiches and hard boiled eggs on my salads, I never make them for those purposes. I don’t know why this is the case since it is so easy to hard boil eggs.
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How to Clean a Dirty Microwave
It doesn’t seem to matter how hard we try to keep the microwave splatter free, it never seems to work. I can’t even just blame others because sometime I am in a rush and put things in there only to hear them POP after several seconds…
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Melt-in-Your-Mouth Chocolate Chip Cookies
While I love to try out different cookie recipes, sometimes the best cookie to make is an old family favorite. One of my family’s favorite cookies are these melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chip cookies. They are actually a perfect combination of soft and crunchy that won’t quite be able to figure out what category to put them in!
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Zombie Cake Pops
At first glance, you may think these zombie cake pops look too gross to eat, but once you have a taste, you will want to have more than one!
As I mentioned last year when I posted my Eye of Newt Treats, I enjoy trying to come up with gross looking Halloween treats every year for some of my special trick-or-treaters… I think these zombie cake pops will fit the bill this year, don’t you?
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