Winter Comfort Foods
This is usually about the time of year when I start to feel like winter lasts forever and there is no end in sight. Especially when the groundhog predicts 6 more weeks of winter! Luckily, as with most problems in…
A Look Back – Our Favorite Holiday Recipes
Hey Everyone! I’ve been meaning to post a few of our favorite recipes from the holiday season. I realize that January is almost over already (where does the time go?!) and I’m just now getting these out to you but…
Christmas Chocolate Bark
One of the holiday traditions in our family is to bake Christmas cookies together. Each December, we pull out our cookie recipes and pick out our favorites, gather and shop for the ingredients, turn up the Christmas music, and get…
Slow Cooker Chili and Buckwheat Cornbread
Even though we had a gorgeous 70°F day last week, today's brisk temperatures and biting wind are reminding us that winter isn't quite over yet. This next week's forecast shows temperatures hitting 70°F again one day and snow only two days…
Cinnamon Ginger Hot Cocoa
We are finally getting our first proper snowstorm of the winter and the boys are super excited. Snow day! This hot cocoa is the number one thing that the kids request when they go outside for a snow day in…
Cinnamon Ginger Comfort Tea
So I’ve been making a lot of this recipe lately. This is a homemade tea that I make all through the winter or anytime that somebody in the family is feeling under the weather. It contains no actual tea leaves…
Warm and Cozy Winter Menu
I am sitting here on this bitterly cold winter night holding a cup of hot peppermint tea and browsing through my recipe binder to come up with our weekly dinner schedule. I am sure that anyone who knows me is not surprised…