• Eat,  Food,  Recipes

    Super Easy 1-Hour Breadstick Recipe

      By: Megan I know that using yeast intimidates some people.  However, this recipe is so easy that you can’t go wrong.  I make this recipe all the time and love making it when I take dinners to friends.  It is my most requested recipe.  People can’t believe they are homemade!  This is a recipe of my moms.  I wrote down the ingredients years ago, but I had to watch her make them so I could learn how to do it.   My family gobbles them up.  My kids will eat them for all 3 meals if I have leftovers.  And it doesn’t take a lot of time – so…

  • Eat,  Food,  Recipes

    Super Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe + Frosting

    Super Soft Sugar Cookies with Buttercream Frosting I have tried a lot of sugar cookie recipes in my day.  I have tried the one from my Betty Crocker cookbook.  I have tried the Lofthouse copycat recipe.  I have tried the recipes with sour cream.  But I always fall back on this recipe.  I got this from a great friend years ago, who used to have my little kids over to her house to decorate sugar cookies.  We have since moved apart from each other, but every time I make sugar cookies, I think of Lori and how much I love her.  So I guess this recipe also has a little…

  • Just for Fun,  Valentine's Day

    Showing Love to those that Matter Most

    I am reading Gretchen Rubin’s book, Happiness at Home, which follows her first book, The Happiness Project.  I love the concept that she uses in both books – focusing for 1 month on a certain topic or theme in order to create a habit, or promote change in her life.  Once Gretchen chooses a theme, she then creates steps or guidelines that will help her reach her goal. I have decided to try this for the month of February.   My theme for February is “Show More Love”. February, (as commercial as Valentine’s Day has become) is a month where we typically go out of our way and make an extra effort to show…