Easy Bake Oven Recipes

Cleaning up my hard drive, I came across a list of Easy Bake Oven recipes that I had posted years ago on Themestream (an early version of a large group blog that shut down in 2001). I collected them from various listservs in the '90s. Just before I trashed them, I...

Pumpkin Coconut Belgian Waffles

A couple of months ago we added a grand new tradition: Belgian Waffle Sunday. Every evening, when all the family is done with their various church schedules, we gather together for a waffle fest. This meal—much to the chagrin of the avid carnivores among us—includes...

Sugar Free Dark Hot Cocoa

I'm a serious hot chocolate lover and the older I get, the darker I like it. For years I've used no sugar added Nesquick. I like the flavor, but wasn't too keen on the long list of unidentifiable ingredients. No sugar added Nesquick ingredients: INGREDIENTS: COCOA...

Great December Ideas

With Christmas quickly approaching, I wanted to point you to some fun, family things you can do this month that I've written about in the past. Enjoy! Christmas Eve Nativity Pageant Yes, we'll be doing this again on Christmas Eve. Although we're considering a...

Baked Chicken Taquitos

A typical recipe around here has only a handful of ingredients. If I get beyond five or six, my head begins to implode. Too much measuring, too much mixing, too many steps…just to prepare something to stuff in your mouth to run to the next choir concert or soccer...