Each Christmas morning we have fresh berries with homemade whipped cream. A little treat that makes a sweet morning even sweeter. Of course, there is always more heavy cream left over than the three of us could eat, which leaves me with the task of deciding what to make with it. Last year we used it to make the cream sauce for our lobster dish. This year, we decided to just make more whipped cream. Yum!
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This winter, Aldi has had amazing sales on spaghetti squash – 29 cents a pound! That’s a deal I just can’t pass up, but it has meant quite a bit of the only spaghetti squash recipe I knew. Spaghetti. Spaghetti can get old pretty quickly.
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2018 was generally a good year. We had a few great vacations, the girls started new hobbies, and my work was anything but slow. 2018, however, did see one tragedy. My will-eat-anything daughter, Maddie, turned into a picky eater.
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The beginning of the month of October marks a very important holiday in my family – Halloween Decorating Day. By the time Halloween season rolls around, we haven’t decorated for a holiday since Easter. That is just way too long for a family obsessed with all things holidays. (more…)
This weekend, I found myself with a surplus of potatoes. My parents were leaving for a three-week trip and were offloading their perishable items. I was one of the last to visit their house that weekend and ended up with at least five pounds of potatoes. Added to the ones I already had at home, I had roughly seven pounds of potatoes and one pound of sweet potatoes. What was a girl to do? Cook, of course. (more…)
