Salchipapas
Every Friday night is Movie Night at our house. We rotate who’s turn it is to pick the movie and the rules are that the person choosing the movie gets to choose dinner too. Right now that means that we’re eating french fries at…
Easter Bunny Flower Pot with Direction Signs
Easter’s coming up and I’m starting to think about how I’ll decorate this year. Its still a bit early to hang up our Easter eggs in the trees outside, but I came up with a cute little scene in a flower pot to put…
Spaghetti With Vegetables and Meatballs
As part of my ongoing effort to save money on groceries plus feed my family good real food, we ate spaghetti with vegetables and meatballs for dinner. The vegetables were again courtesy of my grocery-gleaning neighbor, the pasta was from the pantry and the…
Amish Friendship Bread Original Recipe
This is the same Amish Friendship Bread recipe that I last saw when my neighbor passed me a baggie of bread starter in 2007, and before that when I got it from a co-worker in 2003, and before that from a friend way…
Amish Friendship Bread Starter
Just in case you wanted to make up a batch of Amish Friendship Bread but none of your friends has any starter handy, here is the recipe to make up the starter from scratch. Now you can start the chain bread amongst your group!…
Seattle Art Museum With Kids
We went downtown to the Seattle Art Museum yesterday (me, the kids and their Ama) to see the show Elles: SAM before it closes tomorrow. We especially wanted to see the work by Yayoi Kusama because my daughter’s art class had watched a video…
Turn Ordinary Takeout Chopsticks Into Easy-to-use Kids’ Chopsticks
This past weekend we had a family get-together where we celebrated the Lunar New Year with a Chinese takeout feast. We had two sets of kids’ chopsticks (the kind that are joined at the top to make it easier for kids to use them)…
Amish Friendship Bread Is Back
This is just a heads-up for my friends and family – Amish Friendship Bread is back in my house after a looonng hiatus. Get ready for ziplock bags of starter in about 6 days!
Easy Felt Valentine’s Day Coasters
I made these easy (really super easy) felt Valentine’s drink coasters the other day, as part of my “spruce up the house for holidays other than Christmas” plan for this year. I was browsing blogs last week and came across some cute felt coasters…
Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake
Apparently pound cake lends itself to endless variations: here is the third iteration of this recipe, and its also pretty dang good. I had a request to make Raspberry Lime Pound Cake for a birthday gathering this past weekend, but when I went to…
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