Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

9.05.2018

How-To Fix Cooking Mistakes

Food is really the center of the home! We spend so much time in the kitchen to create the perfect meals for our families and share special moments, laughs and stories around the dinner table. Picking the right recipes and getting everything just right can be tough, but it’s always worth it in the end to have a full family and another special meal together. 

However, kitchen time doesn’t always turn out exactly as planned! Sometimes we forget to set timers, add a little too much salt or completely overcook a dish because we misread the recipe. Although these setbacks are inevitable every once in a while in a busy household, these little cooking mistakes are never enough to set back a delicious dinner! Instead of starting from scratch or aimlessly searching for mistakes, you can check out this handy visual from Shari’s Berries to learn about all of the tips and tricks for fixing common cooking and baking mistakes. For example, did you know that you can add a sweetener to a dish that’s too spicy to tame the flavor? Take a look at all of their tips to see what you can do to fix any dish! 

How-To Fix Baking Mistakes


How-To Fix Cooking Mistakes

6.03.2016

Friday Favorites - Week 323 - Surviving Summer


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5.12.2015

DIY Raised Garden Box


DIY Raised Garden Box

Our little chicks have been begging for a garden
to grow our own wonderful yum for the table and
thankfully they love veggies just as much as their 
Mama does! So my handy hubby tackled yet another
amazing project a few weekends ago and we are
proud to announce...
the green beans, peas and cucumbers have sprouted!

On his shopping list:
3 pieces of 2X12" Pressure Treated Lumber
1 roll of landscape fabric
Scrap wood for corner stakes
1- 8X2 foot trellis
Several bags of Organic Raised Bed Soil

DIY Raised Garden Box

He built the box on our driveway since it is 
more level. Cut one of the boards in half, 
making our garden box 8X4 feet.

Some grunt work digging out a bit of the hill
and then staking it into place, reinforcing the 
corners with screws. We had leftover stain from
our master bathroom project and he enlisted the
help of our seven year old to "paint" the box.

DIY Raised Garden Box


This is how it's done Daniel Son...

DIY Raised Garden Box

He lined the bottom of the box and stapled it in, 
adding the bags of soil. 

DIY Raised Garden Box

Next the trellis...cut in half, zip tied together and
buried into the soil. It'll be fun to watch the 
beans curl up the sides.

DIY Raised Garden Box

Confession: Yes, I grew up on a farm but I don't
have a green thumb, I am however 
willing to try. Since we were a little late planting,
we picked up plants that were already started, minus
the beans and cucumbers. I'm not sure how 
huge everything will get, so we are playing it safe
this summer with just a few items. 

Three tomato plants on the left and all sorts of
glorious smelling spices on the right. We added
rosemary and marigolds around the edges to help
keep away any animals that might want to take a nibble.
One yellow pepper plant, and a pouch of snow peas,
green beans and cucumbers.

DIY Raised Garden Box

The kids have enjoyed watching the tomatoes blossom
and love watering the plants...fingers crossed
we will have something yummy to show for our 
hard work!

DIY Raised Garden Box

How does your garden grow?
Feel free to link your post in the comments!

11.08.2014

Dill Pumpkin Seeds

Anyone who carved a pumpkin this year for Halloween
or is saving one to make a fresh pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving
will love this yummy treat! 

Dill Pumpkin Seeds - Snack Food - LeroyLime

Save your pumpkin seeds and follow these easy instructions:

Dill Pumpkin Seeds - Snack Food - LeroyLime

boil for 10 minutes in salt water

Dill Pumpkin Seeds - Snack Food - LeroyLime

drain and dry

Dill Pumpkin Seeds - Snack Food - LeroyLime

season and shake in a covered bowl
2 t. Olive Oil
Sea Salt and Dill to taste

Dill Pumpkin Seeds - Snack Food - LeroyLime

bake @325 for 10 minutes
(stir every 10 minutes)

Dill Pumpkin Seeds - Snack Food - LeroyLime

3.07.2014

DIY Baby Food

I'm no foodie BUT I had to post about this...it only took me 4 
kiddos to finally make my own baby food and WOW, was it ever easy!

One of my friends said, "if you can boil water, you
can make baby food" and she was right!

I didn't have ice cube trays, so decided to use the
next best thing...a mini cupcake tin
I used a small cookie scoop to dish them up, 
covered with cellophane and popped the entire tray
in the freezer. In the morning, I popped the frozen 
balls out of the tray and put them in a ziplock freezer bag.

I put a few in the fridge for the next day in small baby containers
and they are the perfect size to reheat and add a bit of rice cereal to
to thicken as desired.


- Applesauce -
My first batch of apples, I didn't add anything spices to
but my second batch I added a bit of cinnamon and
she gobbled them up!


- Broccoli and Carrots -
I just brought the water to a boil, steamed the 
veggies for about six minutes and then threw it in
the mini food processor, it blended perfectly.


- Butternut Squash -
I added a bit of butter and a teaspoon of orange juice
to each half after cleaning out the seeds
and placed this in the oven open side up
covered with tin foil.
Bake for 1-1/2 hrs at 350.

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I've added this to the
Look What I Made
Linky Party

9.24.2013

Fall Tags for Treats


I made these cute tags yesterday to adorn some yummy chocolate chip banana bread loaves. Think outside the box with your stamps...how can you use them differently?? Etc. The leaf print stamp is actually meant to wrap a chocolate nugget candy BUT, with a square punch, I notched out the bottom and then with a foam dot, I added a different saying... Yum, instead of Give Thanks. Added a few leaves made out of coordinating paper and can you say CUTE?!

3.28.2013

Jello Easter Eggs



Another fun craft for your kiddos!
I kept my 5 year old busy washing the
plastic eggs while my older child made the jello. 

Make sure to find eggs that do NOT have the tiny air holes in them and don't forget to spray the insides of your eggs with a bit of pan spray. I sprayed one (forgot the rest, oops) so my kids just used a spoon to dig out their jello, which was still a dessert delight! 

My eight year old came to the rescue while I was standing in the kitchen wondering just how I was going to get the liquid jello into the eggs..."Mommy just dunk them in the jello bowl!"...total preggo brain fart moment on my part, haha! 

So, red fingers later - they washed everyone, no worries - and we had a carton of jello eggs ready to set up in the fridge.