Easter Egg Door Decoration – Easter Crafts
We love Easter Crafts because they get us excited for Easter. Holiday's are only one day. When we extend it through crafts and food and activities the one day turns into days of fun and excitement.
We were at our local dollar store when we saw a fun egg cut out. Right in the store came a little inspiration.
Supplies: All items purchased at our local Dollar Tree
Cut out egg
Package of felt
Hot glue
Glitter glue
The first step is to plan out your egg pattern. The best ...
Easter Linky Party
I love seeing all the new holiday posts. I thought it would be fun to create a dedicated linky party just for Easter. Anything Easter related is welcome. I will leave this party open until the beginning of May.
Thanks for joining and be sure to help spread the word.
An InLinkz Link-up
Challenge: Shed 300 In 30 Days
The weather is getting warmer where we live but it always does this and then gets really cold one last time. I am trying not to be excited about the warmer weather yet. After a long winter I want to open the windows and air out the house, declutter and make things brighter and sunnier inside to reflect the outside. With now 5 Little Chefs we have a lot of stuff. Each person doesn't need to have a lot to collectively have a lot.
I do know it is a lot easier to keep things picked up with less ...
Saint Patrick Day FREE Wordart
My Little Chefs were out of school so we decided to take a little vacation...a much needed vacation. We went to California to spend some time at Disneyland and with family. Vacations are not totally relaxing when we have 5 kids and 2 being hard to handle. Amazingly it went better then I expected. The car ride was not bad. We tried a few different tricks for travelling. (interested in hearing them?) We stayed in a not so great hotel and a couple better ones. We had a few bad mornings at ...
Easter Ideas
FUN AND EASY EASTER IDEAS.
Easter Bunny Crafts
EASTER EGG PLANTER
MINI EASTER BASKET
STITCHED EASTER EGG
EASTER EGG DOOR DECORATION
EASTER BUNNY PANCAKES
EASTER PRINTABLE COUNTDOWN
HOW TO BOIL AN EGG
MELTED CRAYON EGGS
7 DeliciousValentine’s Day Chocolate Recipes
Valentine's Day has a lot to do with chocolate. We thought we'd share some of our favorite chocolate recipes. These are easy recipes and you might even have all the ingredients in your pantry already. If you need a quick chocolate dessert we have one sure to fit your needs.
Chocolate Filled Strawberries
Too Much Chocolate Cake with Satiny Glaze
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Milkshake
German Chocolate Cake
Oreo White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Bundt Cake
Simple Chocolate ...
MercoBox…if you are in Utah you need to read this!
I had the wonderful opportunity to review a MercoBox from MercoLocal. I was excited about this opportunity because I was not even vaguely familiar with this product or company. All I knew was at the beginning of each month MercoBoxes are delivered and each month the customer is surprised with the contents. The common thread is that all the products in the box are from locally owned businesses in Utah. How fun is that! I would like to know what is made here in Utah so that I can support those ...
Tortilla Soup
The next soup in the Martha Stewart's Cooking School Cookbook is Tortilla Soup. We were super excited after reading the recipe because our stock was already made and frozen. We had extra chicken from our chicken soup so making the tortilla soup was going to be super easy! We had a little shopping to do to pick up a few extra ingredients.
The chili puree took the longest time but it was easy. This was Little Chef D's assignment. She found it VERY interesting that both chili's began as ...
Chicken Soup
We initially thought making Chicken Soup would be easy now that we have the stock. Well...perhaps it would be, but in following the directions in the Martha Stewart's Cooking School Cookbook it wasn't that easy. We made stock again, but this time we cooked the meat in the stock. So, we did two things at once. Maybe that made it a little better?
Once the chicken was cooked, shredded and the stock was strained as explained in the cookbook we refrigerated it all and went off for a few ...
How We Cut Up A Chicken
In order to make Chicken Soup (come back on Friday) we needed to learn how to cut up a chicken. We went to the grocery store and bought a whole chicken. I told my Little Chefs what we were about to do and amazingly they did not have a problem with it, in fact they were excited. They are really enjoying all the new bits of information we are learning.
They each took a turn cutting off one part of the chicken as we read the instructions in the Martha Stewart's Cooking School Cookbook. The ...
How To Make White a.k.a. Chicken Stock
White (chicken) stock is the most versatile of all stocks. The process of making a stock is to put a mirepoix into a pot, cover with water and simmer for a given time. A mirpoix is a combination of vegetables that are used to give flavor to the water which transforms into a stock. Do you remember we gave a couple tips about the mirepoix when we talked about 9 Tips For Flavorful Stocks.
We wanted the experience of making chicken stock. We followed the directions in the Martha Stewart's ...
What is a stock, broth, bouillon, fond, and fume?
Have you ever wondered what the components are that make up a stock, broth, bouillon, fond and fume?
Stock - Martha Stewart says a stock is "made of water simmered with bones (except vegetable stock). The meat on them provided flavor while the bones and gelatinious connective tissue between them, slowly break down and add body to the liquid." (p.39)
A frugal stock can be made from the bones and carcasses of a roasted chicken with fresh vegetables. You can save the carcasses in a bag in ...
