Recipes

  • Family,  Recipes

    Family Night – Simple, Easy Pizza Dough

    If you hadn’t already noticed, we posted a new video on our YouTube page featuring one of our favorite family activities. You can watch that below: So, every Friday afternoon I start preparing for our evening by making homemade pizza dough. It took a long time to find a dough we liked, but this one is so easy and delicious to make! I’ll share the recipe at the bottom of this post. Sometimes I split a dough ball into four so that each kid can make their own personal pan pizzas, or like this night, we made one large pizza and the kids all topped their sections. J and I…

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    Family Movie Night with Hotel Transylvania 2

    This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #MakeItAMovieNight #CollectiveBias Our family really enjoys having movie nights, we have started making Friday nights our official family movie night. We make fun finger foods or pizza, gather around the living room and watch a great new family movie. This past weekend we watched Hotel Transylvania 2! This is such a cute movie, all of us (young and “old”) had a good laugh watching the antics of Dracula and his friends. Before our movie night began we ran to Walmart to purchase our movie, we also picked up a 6-pack of Coca-Cola, Orville Redenbacher 6 pack Movie…

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    Grazia® Silicone 24 Cup MINI Muffin Pan Review

    It’s no secret that I love to bake…. it’s kind of funny actually considering how awful of a cook and baker I USED to be! Ask J, I was pretty awful! Now though, if I had the time and money to bake every day I probably would! And most times I let Boogie help, unfortunately, for this review she wasn’t allowed to help. She got into a little bit of trouble this morning, let’s just leave it at that! I love silicone pans for baking. They bake everything evenly and your cakes, muffins, cupcakes, breads (etc.) just slide out of the pan! It’s amazing! Today I found a recipe from…

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    Cook’n 11 Review and Giveaway!

    Disclosure: I got this product as part of an advertorial. I am a Pinterest FANATIC. Seriously… ask my family, ask my friends! I’m constantly pinning new recipes, home decor ideas, crafts, homeschool projects, etc. I just love it! I love it so much that I JUMPED at the opportunity to review this software called Cook’n 11. This program is AWESOME! It’s like a pinterest for your recipes, but better! Cook’n is the Only Recipe Software that lets you: • Easily Enter your Personal Recipes • Get Ideas for What to Make for Dinner • See a Visual Menu Planner • Auto-Generate Shopping Lists • Capture Recipes From Favorite Websites •…

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    Perfect for Fall Pumpkin Pie

    Finally! I have time to post the final installment of my pumpkin tutorials/recipes! Nap time is AWESOME… and the fact that my sweet hubby took the day off and is holding Bubby the Monster for his nap! Ha! Anyways… this pie is AWESOME. You can use canned pumpkin for it, but I promise you won’t regret making your own puree and doing this from scratch. SO good. Now… onto this pumpkin pie recipe! You can find the first two posts HERE and HERE. Perfect for Fall Pumpkin Pie Before you start gathering your supplies, preheat your oven to 400F (or if you have a wall oven like me, 375F). First,…