Good or bad, my children’s birthdays are within 10 days of each other. Fellow moms will already have begun to translate this information through the project management function of birthday planning; gift ideas, gift procurement, additional gift ideas to provide desperate relatives without inspiration, birthday activities, and birthday food. This is heightened for me since…
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How to Make: Chocolate Bird’s Nest Cupcakes for Easter
Making Easter cupcakes is always fun but none are more well-loved than Chocolate Bird’s Nest Cupcakes. Part recipe, part craft project, these chocolate coated pretzel nests filled with candy are a delight for all! Gluten-free and gluten instructions. Last year before Easter I stumbled upon these perfect blue eggs. Hard coated chocolate with caramel in…
Muffin Tin Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes
Muffin Tin Meatloaf topped with Mashed Potatoes is a fast, easy dinner recipe that everyone loves. Perfect for individual serving and portion control, it’s fast enough to make for weeknight dinners (30 minute recipe). I get bored very easily. I always need to mix things up a bit or begin to feel like a trail…
Gluten-Free Owl Cupcakes
I’m feeling incredibly sheepish. This is a blog post that was never intended to be. I’m not the visionary behind the original melt-your-heart whimsy of these cupcakes (and sadly do not know who is). I searched the internet about 5 years ago when my elder child became obsessed with owls (directly preceding the nationwide obsession…
Grapefruit-Lemongrass-Lime Infused Gin and a Gin & Tonic cocktail
By this time in the winter I feel dehydrated and sparked by flavors that seem to signal the coming of spring. We still have a few months of winter before us in Colorado, which can take many forms from dry, cold temps to manic teasing days varying from ‘get your sleeveless Easter dress picked out’…
Sour Cream Butter Cake, DIY Burn Ointment & ‘The Modern-Day Pioneer’
When offered the chance to preview ‘The Modern-Day Pioneer: Simple Living in the 21st Century’ by Charlotte Denholtz, my heart skipped a beat. In the deepest recesses of my mind I yearn to live in this manner daily; gathering eggs from my own backyard chickens, growing my own food, baking from scratch. I of course…
Creamy Coconut Tangelo Rice Pudding
A few weeks ago I shared my joy and plight over a gargantuan shipment of fresh citrus sent to us from a Floridian relation. I would never complain about freshly harvested, locally-grown fruit arriving at my doorstep in the mid of our dry, parched Colorado winter. In this case however a mistake at the orchard…
