Love Christmas cookies and chocolate fudge? Learn the healthy way of making these favorite holiday sweets with whole grains, good-for-you fats like butter and coconut oil and natural sweeteners. This class will be December 6. Register Here. Class Includes: VIDEO: How to soak flour and make buttermilk gingerbread VIDEO: How to maple sugar walnuts VIDEO: […]
Recipes
Loss Leader Menu
This week chuck roast is on sale at my local grocery store. I will buy at least a five pound roast because there are so many ways to use the leftovers. *Leftover ideas are posted below. Here is the menu I’m going to use to take advantage of the savings. I already have a […]
Battling the Grocery Gremlin
By Laura Moll Coble (Laura is also author of Value Meals for Busy Moms) I don’t know about you, but my most frustrating shopping experiences happen at the grocery store! It never seems to fail that when I think I have about $50 worth of groceries in my basket, they add up to $100. I […]
Pumpkin is loaded with Nutrition
Pumpkin is loaded with an important antioxidant, beta-carotene which is converted to vitamin A in the body with many essential health benefits. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol), B vitamins such as Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate and important minerals such as Iron, […]
Gluten Free Baking Questions/Answers
I’m going to try making Thursdays our question of the week day, where you teach me and other readers the answers to important cooking and health related topics. I received this question in my email last week and would love to get lots of reader feedback to help her out. “Is it possible to make […]
Monday Menu – Layered Mexican Lasagna
Ed Note: This recipe was adapted by my sister who got it from a Pampered Chef Consultant/friend. She serves it to company with a big green salad, guacamole, and extra tortilla chips. It’s delicious. I would like to hear from my Real Food Friends on how to make this “healthier”. Ingredients: 1/4 cup lightly packed […]
Roasted Tomato Marinara Sauce
After I finished the apple sauce Saturday, Belinda and I still had time to chop up the end-of-the season tomatoes to make roasted marinara sauce. The beauty of this recipe is that you use what you have including tomatoes that are going over the hill. Oven roasted vegetables of any kind are extra flavorful and […]
Dehydrating – Food Preserving the Easy Way
Why Dehydrate?We’re hooked on dehydrating! Most foods can easily and successfully be dried with very little preparation time. What’s more, they are even easier to use! With all the surplus apples at a good price, Stephen and I are going to get busy dehydrating later this week before he leaves for his officer training. He […]
Baked French Toast
BAKED FRENCH TOAST I like to treat myself and the family to an extra special breakfast Saturday or Sunday morning. Try this sometime soon! 1 loaf French Bread – slice 1 1/2-2 inches thick Place bread slices in a 13X9 buttered pan close together. 6 large eggs 1 1/2 cup milk (full fat is best) […]
Value Meals For Busy Moms
Today’s paper featured this headline: Economic outlook gets gloomier “Economists meeting in Denver downgraded their 2011 forecast for economic growth in the U.S. by nearly 20 percent and predicted sparse improvement in unemployment.” I think busy homemakers need to ignore these headlines and focus on what positive steps they can take to stretch their dollars […]