One of my favorite easy, cheap decoration activities to do with kids during the holiday season is dried oranges. I’m seeing them everywhere this year, and I am for it! If you are tired of keeping 800 hand print reindeer, this craft is for you. They are so beautiful, take 2 minutes to prep, and…
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Top Cooking Tools for Kids: Stocking Stuffers and Splurge Gifts
The holidays are just around the corner, and I am here for it. Many of us will be celebrating a little differently this year. This will be the first year we have spent Christmas without extended family, and it is heartbreaking. I always say, to be successful in the kitchen, you don’t necessarily need all…
Gingerbread Cookies
Amid the chaos that the holidays bring, the shopping, cooking, traveling, decorating, some traditions are really worth the effort. These cookies make the cut. No leaving the house, no battling crowds, no sleepy toddlers fighting to stay awake for Christmas lights. I plan on making them every year. They’re classic, warm with spices, and so…
Dairy Free Chocolate Cream Pie
Growing up, my family was all about traditions during the holiday season. If we did it once, we had to do it every year. We used the same old flannel shirt of my dad’s to make the scarecrow for Halloween, the same dressing recipe for Thanksgiving, and we watch the recorded cartoon How the Grinch…
Christmas Cookies
Every year when I was young, I looked forward to my Christmas cookie marathon. For weeks before, I would scour cookie recipe books picking the perfect combination. One chocolate mint, one oatmeal chocolate cherry for my mom, a challenging stained glass butter cookie, and a sliced peppermint. I’d get so carried away that we would…
Sweet Potato Pie
This pie y’all. Sweet potato pie is my absolute favorite. It’s the one that my mom makes especially for me every year. My brothers are all about the chocolate cream pie, the cherry, and the pecan, but for me, it’s not Thanksgiving without a Sweet Potato Pie. Warmly spiced and sturdy enough to hold up…
Bacon Wrapped Brussels Sprouts
Introducing: your new favorite way to eat Brussels sprouts. I barely had time to take pictures before my husband and I ate all of these little gems. The bacon gets perfectly crispy, the Brussels sprout gets soft with a few crackling leaves poking out, and the tangy dipping sauce ties this dish together. Need I…
Tourtière
A delicious French Acadian meat pie sure to please your in-laws.
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