I put this pie together one day in January. Since it’s Valentine week, it seemed like a good time to post these pictures. It was fun to try another design and use some hearts. I had hearts in my head because I had added Valentine touches around my home and had been enjoying thinking about […]
Rose City Chocolate Tea Giveaway From Winterwoods Tea Company
Valentine’s Day approaches bringing thoughts of chocolates and roses. 🙂 Winterwoods Tea Company from Spokane, WA has combined the two in this lovely handcrafted tea blend. How fun is that?! Their bag proclaims from Farm to Teacup. And, TODAY, we have a giveaway for a bag of their Rose City Chocolate blend! LOOK at […]
Free Thanksgiving Menu Printable and Gratitude Page Printable
I’ve been working a little on learning about printables and creating a few for fun. I have a free Thanksgiving Menu Printable Page for you today, if you’d like to print it out. You can jot down your menu items on the page and enjoy some pretty pumpkins at the same time. Go here to […]
Gluten Free Almond Cake With Strawberries
One day as I was browsing recipes, I found and printed this one out and added it to my stack of “to try“. It sounded really good. It sounded easy. It looked fun to make! As it turned out, it WAS!! The original recipe is right here at Your Home Based Mom. The recipe is officially […]
Winans Chocolates + Coffee Giveaway
This box arrived on my front porch the other day! Shipped from OHIO!! From Winans Chocolates + Coffee to my doorstep. I’d been anticipating its arrival! A box coming with chocolate and coffee printed on its side…………and the real thing inside?! Definite anticipation. Winans sent me a super fun mix of chocolates, candy and coffee […]
Cupcake Flowers
Back in the spring, I pulled pages out of a Martha Stewart for these candy flower cupcakes. They hung out in my three-ring binder. {the pages…not the cupcakes. Although, that woulda been nice!} A few weeks ago, I pulled them out of the binder and made cupcakes. I also wanted to try this recipe for […]
Ten Favorite Foods and Snacks For Watching Football
Linking up with Carole ~ for today’s ten! What snacks do you like best to munch on while watching a good ole football game? Hmmmmm. 1. Pretty hard to beat chips and queso cheese dip! Do you read Jon Acuff? He has a thing for queso and chips. Recently he posted a t-shirt on Instagram […]
Recipe Round-up
It’s a recipe roundup! Here are a few recipes that have been cooking in the farmhouse kitchen or have been coming to mind recently. I added a recipe for Jalapeno Poppers to my Tuesday post from last week. I’ve made them several times. I find myself going in cycles with foods and recipes. I’ll get […]
Ten Things I Did Over Labor Day Weekend
How was your weekend? We had a good one, although I ended up pretty tired. I was expecting to feel that way, though, after we were gone last weekend and had appointments and several things going on last week. We spent most of the weekend with all of Matthew’s family. It was great fun to […]
Savory Chicken Crescent Sandwiches
Good morning! For this Labor Day weekend, along with September slipping in, I’m posting these savory sandwiches. Flaky crescents. Buttery croissants. And a simple cheesy, chicken filling! Mmmmm. Don’t you want to reach your hand out and pick one up?! We served these sandwiches at our celebration for our teens in February of this […]
Strawberry Rhubarb Cream Cheese Hand Pies
I made these hand pies back in the early summer. There are so many fun pie ideas! I’ve seen so many pretty pie pictures. There are regular pie-shaped pies and there are slab pies {I have one I tried in this post} and foldover pies {that I’d like to try} and pie tarts and handpies, to name […]
Ice Cream Sandwiches With Sprinkles
I saw this idea on Pinterest around the fourth of July. Someone had used red, white and blue sprinkles and created festive ice cream sandwiches. I thought it was fantastically fun! The blogger who posted them had actually made ice cream sandwich pops. You can find her post here. We were having some friends […]
In the Farmhouse Kitchen With Stars and Berry Pie
{affiliate links included} Slab pies. I see pictures of them here and there and they intrigue me. I add them to my want-to list!!! It looks fun. This berry pie with stars studded across the top catches my attention. The recipe and beautiful pictures are right over here at Wife.Mama.Foodie. I ride in the […]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes {Gluten Free}
Cupcakes and cookies. Mix the two together. Mmmm. This recipe has been a favorite of mine for a Looooonnng time! I gave them a try using a few tweaks to make them gluten free. They turned out delicious! I’m so happy! PrintChocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes {Gluten Free} 18-24 cupcakes Ingredients 1 cup butter, softened 1 […]
Blueberry Rolls of the Gluten Free Variety
Think B.L.U.E.B.E.R.R.Y. ~ Think B.L.U.E.B.E.R.R.Y. R.O.L.L.S. I kept thinking about Blueberry Rolls. A friend shared them on her blog a few years ago and when I saw the recipe I knew I wanted to try them. Ever since, every so often, I have this urge to make Blueberry Rolls. My next question was, “Where do […]
Cake and Roses and Fudgy Frosting
There is something about a beautiful cake that just makes me smile. I love Lisa’s cakes and pictures and ALL HER FOOD over at Celebrate Creativity. Trust me. You want to take a few minutes to go gaze. Here’s her Sweet Category. Check out her beautiful cakes. I had read her tips about icing […]
