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5 Holiday Desserts You Need This Season
The Holidays are upon us and with them come the always delicious and bountiful array of food that we all love. But the best part of the holiday feasting is the assortment of desserts that await after the main courses and sides have all been cleared away. Holiday desserts are the real reason we have holiday dinners right?! Usually you see the same few traditional holiday desserts year after year. Desserts like pumpkin and apple pie, while delicious are not going to really stand out in a crowd. This is the year to shake up your grandma’s holiday dessert table with something new, or in some cases forgotten, delicious holiday…
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Chocolate Chip Pie
This Chocolate Chip Pie Recipe is a rich and delicious chocolate chip cookie in pie form. It is so rich and decadent, only a small piece will satisfy even the strongest of sweet tooth. It is one of the easiest pies you will come across. This chocolate chip pie recipe comes together in minutes and bakes in under an hour. Serve it slightly warm with ice cream or the next day with a cup of ice cream. I made this Chocolate Chip Pie for Thanksgiving this year, and while it was only the five of us, it didn’t stick around long. It is also easily portable and freezable! It is…
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Christmas Gift Giving on a Budget
Planning your Christmas gift giving on a budget can be hard, but it is not impossible. This year more than ever, we are all pinching pennies and trying to save a buck. But how do you make that translate into budget friendly Christmas gift giving? Whatever your budget, you can make this Christmas meaningful while ensuring your bank account doesn’t take the fall.. Stick around to see how! Christmas is a time of giving, but it can easily turn into a time of over spending. We have all felt the anxiety of overspending for the holidays. You know the feeling I am talking about. You start to tally up your total…
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Five Quick and Easy Weeknight Dinners
We have all been there. You get home from work and realize you have no desire to cook and have zero ideas for dinner. To top it all off the kids immediately start complaining that they are starving. You don’t want to fight the kids to get them to eat, don’t want to order pizza, and you didn’t set anything out. You need some quick and easy dinner ideas in a hurry! Trust me, I feel your pain. I usually pre-plan our dinners for the week via my bullet journal, but I will be honest that I am not always 100% on top of my game. There are nights that…
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Top 5 Favorite Books of 2020
In January, like many others, I set goals and publish them in my bullet journal to keep me on track for the year. To be honest, I really only accomplish about half of them because I set so many and some that I really don’t even care about. This year, my goal is to set more realistic and meaningful goals. Ones that I actually care about accomplishing. I used to believe that the more you commit to the more likely you are to accomplish something, but honestly it just stresses me out because I begin to feel like it is a race against the clock. I also found that a…
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Blueberry Muffins
After a full week juggling work, virtual school, and dinners, I typically spend the weekend working on the farm and cleaning the house in an effort to catch up on a week’s worth of laundry and life. I would really love to be one of those moms that just has it all together with flawless hair and makeup and a spotless house, but I don’t…. So my house ends up looking like a tornado ran through it by Monday afternoon. It seems like a never ending cycle sometimes. But on the rare occasion that the kids and I get to forego our housekeeping and spend the day with friends, we…
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Slowcooker Apple Butter Recipe
Using a slow cooker is one of the easiest ways to make apple butter. It tastes like you have stood over a wood burning fire stirring apples in a copper kettle all day. For those who may not know, apple butter does not actually contain butter. The “butter” term is used to describe its butter like texture. Apple butter is instead a scrumptiously decadent thickened applesauce spiced with cinnamon, cooked low and slow all day. It is delicious spread over toast in the morning or used in baked goods. Check out our recipe for homemade light bread to try it out on! It is so good! Apple butter is so…
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Simple Apple Sauce Recipe
When the apple harvest starts to come in I get the itch to make some of my favorite apple recipes to sustain my family through the winter. One of these family favorites is applesauce. So simple and so delicious. Yes, I realize that I can go and buy applesauce from the store, but there is nothing quite like fresh homemade applesauce. When it is made from scratch at home, I am able to keep the ingredients local, the quality high, and there is no added sugar (unless I just want to add some). My twins love applesauce. Really what 5 year old doesn’t? They love applesauce just plain in a…
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Apple Sauce Cake Recipe Like Granny Used to Make
A deliciously easy and moist applesauce cake studded with plump raisins and beautiful pecans just like Granny used to make
