Family Friendly Information and Fun Near Boone, NC
Pin itWe’re heading into Super Bowl weekend and all the great party food that entails. I’ve been marking things on Pinterest for weeks; it all looks so good! As always, I’ve been trying to find some healthier homemade alternatives to some of the favorite party foods. I admit that I have not come up with [...]
Pin itIt has been nearly 30 days that hubby has been on his special diet cutting out everything except fruits low on the glycemic index, vegetables, and meat. Hubby has hypothyroidism and you can read more about it in this post On the Road to Thyroid Healing. I am so proud of my husband, he [...]
Pin itHomemade soup! It’s one of the easiest things in the world to make. If you throw a package of stew meat, a bag of frozen vegetables, and a can of diced tomatoes into a stock pot with some water, in an hour you will have a very respectable pot of homemade soup. It’s respectable [...]
Pin itBack in October, I wrote an post about Frugal Healthy High Country Grocery Shopping, where you can get some great tips on saving money while feeding your family healthy and local food. Now, that I’ve lived in the High Country for nearly a year I feel like I have begun to discover some diamonds [...]
Pin itThree weeks ago I mentioned that an important ingredient of French Onion Soup is a really sturdy homemade beef stock and promised to revisit that issue. Today is the day; that lovely stock is simmering on my stove as we speak! I’m totally serious when I tell y’all that using homemade stock in your [...]
Pin itI’m not real big on New Year’s Resolutions (although I did have some fun thinking about what kind of New Year’s Revolutions I wanted to be part of!) but the first two weeks of January are a time when I look ahead and sort of come up with a Plan. Of course it’s always [...]
Pin itAny time my husband is off work for a holiday, we eat GREAT breakfasts. Yesterday was no exception. The initial idea for these tasty little individual vegetable frittatas came from FatPhat Girl’s tumblr site. Once we got started, though, we just kept finding new variations to try. These frittatas can be tailored to exactly [...]
Pin itChick-Fil-A has always been a FUN and Family-Friendly place in which to find good, wholesome food in the world of “Fast Food”! They also care about promoting family time, safe play areas for the kids, and are ever in the know about healthy food options. As we begin a new year in 2012, Chick-Fil-A [...]
Pin itI learned something very important over Christmas: my brother-in-law, Paul, ROCKS the kitchen. I watched Paul assemble this delicious homemade French Onion Soup while we were visiting and it was so easy! After our holiday busyness we’ve decided to keep this New Year’s Eve festivities simple. We plan to serve this tasty comfort food [...]
Pin itEarlier this fall we played around with some homemade marshmallow recipes. I’ve procrastinated about putting the recipe up because the ones we tried ALL called for at least a full cup of corn syrup, something I try to avoid if possible. Last week, however, we had a breakthrough! My dear friend, Jenny Bryk, mentioned [...]
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