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Friendship Bread is a book written by Darien Gee which incorporates the famous recipe for a bread stater that you share with friends. It takes 10 days for the starter to become bread. During that time, there’s work to be done, ingredients to add and careful directions to follow. Darien Gee uses this recipe as [...]
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I know how hard it is to get kids to eat fruit. My daughters both ate fruit as babies and well into toddlerhood. Then something happened. Fruit became the food to avoid no matter how tasty it looked, how juicy and sweet it is. Even naturally sweet raisins didn’t work any more. Raisels have changed [...]
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Publix is my favorite grocery store and when they hold their Italian Days, I’m there! And I’m thrilled to share a $25 Publix Gift Card giveaway for my readers. There’s always sales on the products that I and my family love to eat during Italian Days. From February 17th through March 2nd you’ll find General [...]
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My Wordless Wednesday photo – a Greek pizza – I ate the whole thing!
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The newly reformulated Yoplait Original yogurt now has two times the calcium of the leading yogurt with 50 percent of the Daily Value in every cup. To celebrate its commitment to calcium, Yoplait is giving away one million free cups of Yoplait Original! Visit Yoplait’s Facebook page to sign up to receive a free cup [...]
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Mrs. Butterworth’s Holiday Bottles were available for a short time in 2010, but will be available again in 2011 during the holiday season. I know it’s a bit early (or late) to review them now, but why not share the news of the goodness of Mrs. Butterworth with my readers? My family loves Mrs. Butterworth’s [...]
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We took a family vacation to Kansas over the holidays to visit my daughter, Alicia and my son-in-law, Scott. They bought a house about 2 months ago and wanted to spend their first Christmas there. Who could blame them? So my husband, Shawn, daughter, Sammi, my mother, Natalie and I decided to be with them [...]
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Happy Birthday to my daughter Sammi who turned 12 on Friday! We had a small party at home Saturday night with family because she was sick with sinusitis since Thursday. Poor thing was in bed all day Thursday – Sunday. She said that she was thrilled to be 12 but hoped that she’d wouldn’t be [...]
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I’ve learned from ConAgra Foods that cooking with tomatoes is heart healthy. Great news for my family as we eat meals with tomatoes quite often. If we don’t cook with them, we add them as a side dish, put them on sandwiches and just add a bit of salt and take a bite out of [...]
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Wordless Wednesday – some yummy seafood that I got to eat all by myself -
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With the holiday season upon us and the seemingly never-ending amount of chores, I’m on the lookout for fast, but healthy frozen Italian meals. Growing up eating homemade Italian food and then making my own, I know what the real stuff tastes like. Spices, tomatoes, good cheese, meat and seafood are all important. Freshness is [...]
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I’ve been using Duncan Hines to bake cakes and brownies for years but their new Decadent Cakes and Amazing Glazes are absolutely delicious. When I baked it, the house was filled with those yummy smells that kept my daughter and husband asking about when it would be done. The Triple Chocolate Decadent Cake Mix includes [...]
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