This lemon cheesecake is to die for delicious! Oh my gosh – it was completely devoured last Saturday night when we celebrated our Easter dinner with family and friends. The cheesecake was so light and creamy, and the lemon had the perfect balance of tart and sweet.Whenever I bake with lemon I am reminded of …
How I Painted My Bathroom Cabinets
Ever since my husband and step-son replaced the ceiling fan in our master bedroom, I have been wanting to get rid of the oak colored bathroom cabinets. I never really liked them to begin with, but moving our bed to face the bathroom combined with switching the fan suddenly made the oak color really stand …
Three Egg-Cellent Ways to Use Your Hardboiled Eggs!
The Easter holiday has come and gone. If you are like me, you now have a bunch of hard-boiled eggs on hand. Yes, you can just peel, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and gobble them up. But here are two of my favorite go-to recipes and one new one that I just found from the …
Make-Ahead Creamy Mashed Potatoes
Ohhhh…Mashed Potatoes mixed with cream cheese and butter. What’s not to love? The best part of these mashed potatoes is that you can make them ahead! My style of entertaining is to make as much as possible ahead of time. Who wants to be in the kitchen cooking when you have a house full of …
Planning an Easy Easter Dinner
Easter is right around the corner, and I am just now thinking about it! I am usually much more prepared for holidays – I enjoy the preparation as much as the event itself. As a blended family though, I was not planning on having Easter this year. This year my step-children are to spend the …
Chicken & White Bean Salad
I came across this recipe the other day, and I knew my family would love it! As with most recipes, I took my own slant on it – basically I made a few substitutions and deletions due to what was in my refrigerator. I would love to make this salad exactly as the recipe …
My First Give-Away Ends Tomorrow!
Did you know you can enter every day? It’s so easy – you will not want to miss this one! As you may know, I am very excited to bring to you my very first blog give-away! I have a friend that works for this amazing company calledONEHOPE Wine. For every bottle of wine that …
I am Loving my Green Smoothies
I recently bought a Nutribullet from Target – Thanks to the many gift cards I received from my students. I only wish I had owned one of these sooner! This machine is amazing! It quickly and throughly blends fruits and vegetables into a perfectly smooth drink – appropriately called a smoothie :)I have been experimenting …
What a Difference a New Ceiling Fan Makes
Recently the ceiling fan in our bedroom died. Honestly, I never really paid much attention to it until it quit working. That is clearly evidenced by all of the dust that had accumulated on the white ceiling fan! Even in the winter months our upstairs can get warm and stuffy, so we definitely needed to …
Black Bean and Vegetable Burritos
I have made this recipe many, many times for my family. In fact my daughter Alyssa has the recipe on her food blog as well – it truly has become a family favorite! As many times as I have made it, I was surprised last week when I whipped this up and Sophia asked, “Where’s …