Kitchen

Here are 5 super simple family favorite pasta recipes. Add these to your menu planning for everyday fare, or dressed up fancy for guests.

My Mom’s Shepherd’s Pie Recipe, Fall’s best comfort food in an iron skillet. Hold the thought of food for cool weather to keep you going until it actually arrives 🙂 .     What foods do you think of when the calendar flips from July to August? The nights and mornings are getting cooler, signaling…

We researched 10 Ways to Organize Your Favorite Recipes and have them at your fingertips for meal planning and grocery shopping.   PLUS we’re sharing the favorite personalized recipe albums our customers love for their family recipes. They make a perfect gift for your off-to-college child, a new bride, or the friend going off to…

We want to DIY a Farmhouse Kitchen Pendant light with vintage style for the renovation of our son’s little house on the river.     In the farmhouse on the river, the 1919 Craftsman style house my son and DIL are renovating, they cut a pass-through opening between the kitchen and the now-office-former-dining-room. To cut…

We’ve collected some Breakfast ideas and Tips you can use when you serve a small crowd, like at a family reunion or birthday brunch.   If you read this post, you know that we had a family reunion at my son’s farm in Nebraska. The man of my house still muses at times how we…

Want lettered wooden spoons but you don’t have a laser engraving machine? (Who does?) You can DIY them our way with a wood burning tool and a simple pattern you can make yourself. No laser necessary.   Find More Kitchen DIYs on the blog   Queen Bee Kitchen Towel DIY Easiest Transfer Method Retro Bakery…

Cooking for a Family Reunion can be a challenge, with the nonstop activity that revolves around play, eat, pray, eat, play, eat, etc. Then factor in a small 1950s era kitchen, and you have a recipe that could cause the best of chefs to go on strike.   If you’ve read any of our posts…

Last Sunday we had Kim’s Birthday Shrimp Bash, which we could celebrate on a Sunday because of an air bake oven pan!   So last week, in the midst of VBS, and this happens every single year, poor her, was Kim’s birthday. As it turns out, every single year, we wait till after Bible School…

My Mr. Grill King makes Bacon Infused Baked Beans to accompany his ultimate grilled pork chops. This has to be summer grilling’s best side ever!   My very own Grill King doctored up a recipe for this fusion of bacon and bean goodness. I was busy finishing up work for the day in my basement…

Ever use a kitchen gadget beyond what it was made for, and surprise, surprise, the hacks work as good as or better than the original purpose?   Yup, that happens quite often around here. Either we don’t have the right gadget so we improvise, or it’s the tool we have in hand already and don’t…