Say goodbye to your smelly old dish sponges.
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Monthly Archives: October 2020
How To Make the Easiest Apple Crumble
The best thing you can make with your just-picked apples. READ MORE…
The Drama in This Slow Cooker Facebook Group Is Set to HIGH
An admin post in the group absolutely throttles the people who feel they are crockpot masters and thus elevated beyond helping new crockstars.
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12 Advent Calendars for a Tasty (and Maybe Tipsy!) Christmas Countdown
Score versions with chocolates, jams and jellies, tea and coffee, and even wine. READ MORE…
12 Delicious Recipes Starring Chicken and Mushrooms
Go ahead, name a better duo. READ MORE…
Finally! A Ready-to-Brew Chai That Tastes Just Like the Tea I Grew Up Drinking in India
Get the samosas ready…it’s chai tea time! READ MORE…
How To Turn a Can of Pumpkin into the Best Pumpkin Soup
Think soup has to simmer all day? Think again. This warm, comforting number comes together in mere minutes. READ MORE…
Deli Meat Is Responsible for Multi-State Listeria Outbreak, Says CDC
10 people have been hospitalized, and one person has died.
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morning glory breakfast cake
It’s hardly the biggest surprise of parenting, but I’ve yet to get my head around the idea that I’ve taken part in creating a morning person. My son has always woken up early; if it’s 5/5:30am, he’s on the sofa, reading a thick book, wondering why we do not care to watch the sunrise with him. Over the years, we’ve tried everything to change his wiring — lecturing, star charts, bribery, begging, asking the pediatrician to talk some sense into him [although “he wakes up early and reads chapter books!” didn’t quite have the doom-and-gloom impact we’d thought it would], prayer — and eventually, as you might have inferred from referring to it as wiring, we gave up.
When you wake up at the crack of dawn, you also require breakfast at an earlier hour than normal people, like your parents, who love to sleep. So there’s no, uh, confusion as to what is and is not a “breakfast food,” we’ve taken to packing him a breakfast and leaving it in the fridge: a hard-boiled egg, fruit, cheese, and some sort of muffin. After working my way through my own muffin archives, I realized that I was missing one of those hippie/morning glory-ish muffins that he loves, loaded with carrots and apple and dried fruit, sometimes coconut, and spices. I’ve made a few versions over the last few months, and was about to go another round when a new (out tomororw), wonderful cookbook arrived at my doorstep: Yossy Arefi’s Snacking Cakes.
We Make $30K and Have Twins. Here’s What We Spend on Groceries.
The family made 6 different shopping trips and ordered takeout in that timespan. READ MORE…