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Keeping the Kitchen Clean with Mean Green

September 29, 2018 By Laura 1 Comment

Keeping the Kitchen Clean with Mean Green

This may come as a shock, but my kitchen gets pretty messy. All four kids like to cook…and so does my husband…and so, sometimes, do I. The kids are also at a point where they get their own lunches and snacks and other food. So – lots of opportunities for jam and peanut butter and […]

Filed Under: frugal living Tagged With: cleaning, dessert, recipe

Delicious Cranberry Chocolate Protein Bites

May 16, 2018 By Laura Leave a Comment

I’ve been baking cookies since I was at least ten years old. I might have been even younger, but by the time I was ten, I was baking them on my own — nice, warm cookies for winter. Nice, warm cookies in the middle of summer. I love to bake, and I’ll do it anytime […]

Filed Under: recipes, Sponsored Tagged With: dessert, recipe, recipes, snack, summer

Delicious Irish Cream Bundt Cake Recipe

March 21, 2017 By Laura Leave a Comment

I love a good bundt. They’re so cool looking. I really want one of those fancy bundt cake pans that look like a castle or a bunch of flowers or something, but for now I must settle for my plain ol’ bundt. Doesn’t matter, though. Plain bundts are just as tasty. And I do believe […]

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Spooky Halloween Popcorn

September 21, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

Spooky Halloween Popcorn

OK, so — y’all know me. I don’t do scary. No haunted houses or scary movies or ghost stories. I only made it through “Stranger Things” with all the lights on and my husband sitting next to me. But I do love funny and quirky, so that’s what we do for Halloween around here. Today, I’m over at See Vanessa Craft, […]

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Deliciously Simple Apple Snickerdoodle Muffins

September 8, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

We’re on a roll with the breakfast ideas this week, but these Apple Snickerdoodle Muffins may confuse you. Are they a breakfast? A dessert? A snack? Yes. Mostly what they are, though, is really frigging good. I had them for breakfast, snack, and dessert…and then I sneaked bits of them throughout the day in between. They’ve got […]

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Deliciously simple Nutella recipes — Nutella pizza

April 7, 2016 By Laura 16 Comments

Deliciously simple Nutella recipes — Nutella pizza

  Last weekend, I met up with some other Denver-area bloggers at Racca’s Pizzeria Napoletana. It was a blast…a tasty, tasty blast. I was going to share pictures with you, but this is all I could come up with: Come for the limoncello, ?stay for the cannoli (ok, and the pizza…definitely get the pizza…)??Such a […]

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11 Things to Do Over Spring Break

March 16, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

This post contains affiliate links to stuff we love! I always start out spring break strong. We get up, we usually go somewhere fun the first day or two…and by the end of the week, we’re hanging out in our pjs until 10am and watching more TV than I like to admit. So I made […]

Filed Under: Kids’ activities Tagged With: books, cooking with kids, dessert, indoor activities for kids, kids, kids activities, recipe, recipes

Throw A Cookie Dipping Party

February 25, 2016 By Laura 1 Comment

We’re pretty low-key party people here. We’ve got four kids and if I went overboard, I’d have to do it for each of them and I don’t have the money or the mental energy for that, you know? So we try to do things at home, or take just a few friends out for a […]

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11 Delicious Fun Fondue Recipes

January 21, 2016 By Laura Leave a Comment

11 Delicious Fun Fondue Recipes

We’re fondue fanatics. I think I may have created a monster when I casually mentioned to my husband that we should get a fondue set, because he loves all things vintage. Now, a few years later, we have at least six vintage fondue sets in an array of ugly ’70’s colors. Yeay. Someone call the […]

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Yoghurt Fruit Tarts

January 6, 2016 By Laura 2 Comments

Yoghurt Fruit Tarts

It’s the new year and we’re trying to be at least a little good about what we eat. But I know a lot of diet research has shown that when we totally deny ourselves any kind of treat, we’re more likely to break down three days in and end up in the coat closet, scarfing down […]

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