OH MY STARS! I am so, so, so very happy that I stumbled onto this recipe. Listen to me talking like it’s a new recipe that I just found.It isn’t. I’ve had it all along! See, I like chocolate desserts. Well, my husband REALLY likes chocolate desserts. And I bake for a decent sized group Read more

Dear Groundhog, If you give me 6 more weeks of winter, I’m never speaking to you again.  Hmphf. Sincerely, Jayme I wish I had control over the Groundhog and how many more weeks of winter we’re going to have.  Here in Omaha, it is COLD!  Really, really, really cold.  So very cold.  Makes me want Read more

Have you ever forgotten a special day or waited until the last minute to find the perfect gift, only to come up short? Having a small stockpile of no-fail gifts can ensure you never fall short in the gift department again. Whether you’re preparing for unexpected guests during the holidays or buying a few back-up Read more

Homemade chocolate and caramel Rolo cookies – perfect for anytime! “Me like cookies!”  That’s what Cookie Monster used to say when I was a little girl.  Does he still say that?  My kids don’t watch Sesame Street, so I’m not sure.  I have heard that he does now teach that cookies are “sometimes” foods.  But Read more

Disclosure: Post contains affiliate links. All opinions are mine. Kids have gone back to school!  Which means, you made it mama!  You figured out a way to keep them fed during the summer – a hard task for me sometimes.  Now you just have to get a good rhythm of feeding them during the school Read more

Frank Sinatra says: Love and marriage, love and marriage They go together like a horse and carriage This I tell you, brother You can’t have one without the other But, maybe the following is also true: Chocolate and peanut butter, chocolate and peanut butter They go together like a love and marriage This I tell Read more

Snickerdoodles!  They’re just a great, traditional cookie, ya know?  But I often think of them as being store-bought, never made at home.  But it doesn’t need to be that way.  It’s an easy cookie to make – a simple dough, chilled for a bit, then rolled in a cinnamon/sugar mixture.  And, yet, I’ve only made Read more

Disclosure: Contains affiliate link. Read full disclosure policy. Know what’s really delicious?  Chocolate.  Know what’s even better?  Adding peanut butter to the party.  Combine both of them together in a brownie and it’s close to heaven.  If you’re my husband, you take that brownie and add a scoop (or 3!) of vanilla bean ice cream Read more

I cook the vast majority of our families meals from scratch. Some of it is for cost savings, but really, it’s because of food restrictions that one of my sons has. For him, we stay away from food dyes, artificial flavors and most preservatives. So he can have bread, but only if it’s free of those things. In so many cases, it’s just become easier for me to buy ingredients and assemble them into meals. We do buy some processed foods for convenience, but the majority of our meals and snacks come from me cooking them.

And yet, I like to think that I have a pretty minimialistic attitude towards the things in my kitchen. But that isn’t quite true. The number of serving spoons will tell you that. But I am pretty minimal, overall.

Here are my kitchen favorites that help me make homecooked meals without losing my mind and without overtaking my kitchen storage! Read More…