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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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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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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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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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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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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I love candy corn, but I know not everyone will share that sentiment. At least in the small town where I live, there is a very small window of opportunity for finding them at the local grocery store.
Whether you enjoy eating the real thing or not, you will hopefully enjoy one or more of these candy corn inspired recipes.
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Last weekend my husbands asked me to try to make him a ranch salad dressing that tasted like the one his favorite restaurant serves. So, the first thing I did was go online and search for ‘copycat Outback steakhouse ranch dressing recipe’.
In honor of Summer, and also National Watermelon Day (August 3rd), why not make some of these amazing watermelon recipes.
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This round-up of amazing Rice Krispie recipes was a spur of the moment idea. I have some family coming this weekend and was in the mood to make something sweet for them… Well, for my grandkids mainly.
To be totally honest with you, I have never been a huge fan of Rice Krispie treats (hanging my head in shame). I think it is mainly because most times I have the opportunity to eat them, it was at a potluck with many other options available… I mean, why waste stomach room on cereal and marshmallows if there are cakes, brownies, or anything chocolaty available?
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