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Mint Oreo cookies are topped with chocolate pudding and whipped cream for a simple 3-ingredient dessert that is perfect for summer! A few weeks ago we did Family Home Evening with some friends and I said I would bring a dessert. Don’t know what Family Home Evening is, or commonly known in our church…
The Monarch Butterfly Grove in Pismo Beach, CA is fun frugal family activity located on the Central California coastline. Thousands of butterflies stop here on their way to Mexico during their yearly butterfly migration. This is a magical stop for any animal lover and a perfect pit stop on your way up to see the Elephant…
Italian Butter Cookies are classic melt in your mouth cookies that can be topped with cherries or chocolate for a delectable holiday treat. I am SO excited to be participating in the 2015 Christmas Cookie Recipe Swap this year! I’ll be sharing these super easy Italian Butter Cookies from Olives & Okra with you….
Sometimes you really want cake but you really don’t need to make a whole cake. It happens to everyone. Make a Funfetti Cake In a Mug for a treat for one. Sometimes if I fight a sweet craving I start having dreams about it. I mean it, I have dreamt of dancing doughnuts a la…
I love desserts! It’s a serious problem. We try to be good about not bringing in a ton and spacing them out so its more occasional. Sometimes the feeling strikes for a treat and I try to figure out if I can get by with just a smoothie. So chocolate peanut butter smoothies are…
Check out my party and the cake that stemmed from all this inspiration. My daughter is turning 5! I am seriously freaking out because I am so not ready for her to be a Kindergartener and being so stinking big. Sometimes it feels like she was just born but then I go through pictures and…
Make IHOP style scrambled eggs at home by using a little bit of pancake batter for deliciously fluffy eggs. I mentioned Friday how I grew up going to IHOP a lot and whenever we make a big pancake breakfast I like to use IHOP’s trick of throwing some pancake batter into the scrambled egg mix….
My husband lived in Switzerland for 2 years and always talks about the food he misses from there which is really just the cheese. My husband is a cheese snob. If he had his druthers we would be eating those $25 per pound gourmet cheese every day. Thankfully he settles for something a bit more…
During the winter I did lots of baking, especially muffins so that we would have breakfast on hand to add variety to our morning meals. Man, or child, cannot live on cereal alone. During the summer though the thought of using my oven for extended periods of time just makes me way too hot. So…
There really is such a thing as creamy watermelon ice cream! Using basic ice cream skills you can get deliciously smooth ice cream full of watermelon flavor. What is the number one summer fruit? I’d probably say watermelon. And I love watermelon, so juicy, so tasty, so light. Perfect for summer. Last summer (yeah, I…