Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Homemade Food Photography Backgrounds When I first started food blogging, I knew absolutely nothing about food photography. I figured that as long as my recipes were good, the pictures didn’t really matter. But honestly, that’s not true. People eat…
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Yum It’s hard being a Mom sometimes. You wake up after an hour of sleep, pull your kids into their clothes, try to get everyone fed, dressed, and ready for school, and then buckle about 23948729384729387 different snaps on all…
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Yum As you know, we moved into a beautiful house a few months ago– a house with a huge yard, beautiful, sunny rooms, and loads of space for dreaming. The longer we live here, the more I discover another quiet…
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Yum I don’t think there’s anything better in this world than a warm chocolate chip cookie, straight from the oven. For years I have used this basic Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe from off the back of the Hershey’s chocolate chip bag….
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Yum You roll over when your alarm goes off, trying to scrape your eyes open after being up all night with a fussy baby. Oh goodness. Is it really time to get up? You pull on the first clothes you…
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Yum Every time I have a Cherry Limeade from Sonic, I smile. One sip and I am transported back to carefree summer days when I used to sip those tangy, sparkling drinks with my friends. And with Valentine’s Day looming,…
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Yum This past year, my Mom had a bumper crop of red raspberries in her garden. She gave me several huge bags of raspberries, and since there were so many I washed the berries and plopped them into the freezer….
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Yum It’s hard not to love potatoes. They are kind of like the best friend of the dinner table– grinning amicably beside anything from a gorgeous Sunday roast beef to an easy summer burger. They can be boiled, braised, baked,…
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Um . . . what the heck is a Lowel EGO light? I thought Anton Ego was the guy from Ratatouille that didn’t like food. And that guy certainly didn’t light up anyone’s life. Oh . . . I’m just…
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Yum Deep dark confession time. When I was a kid, I loathed peanut butter. Even worse than plain peanut butter was chocolate and peanut butter together. The very thought of that flavor combo made my skin crawl. I don’t know…
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