by Allison 6 • 16 • 2016

Round-Up Of 9 Delicious Summer Drinks

Drinks! It’s officially summer and all I can think about right now are delicious, cold, refreshing summer drinks. I have an archive of so many summer drinks I thought I’d share a roundup of my top 9 favorite drinks to get your summer off to a tasty start! Enjoy. Grapefruit Citrus Cooler Mint Watermelon Cooler Summer Fruit Slush Tasty Homemade Iced Coffee Strawberry Slush Healthy Veggie Smoothie Orange Julius Vegetable Juice Smoothie Citrus Springtime Punch There you go, I hope…
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by Allison 6 • 2 • 2016

Make Strawberry Lime Summer Slush

It’s slush time! Summer is the very best, in every way, but one of my favorite things about the hot summer months is making delicious, fruity, slush drinks. I don’t drink alcohol, but any slush can turn boozy if you just swap out a couple ingredients, including this strawberry lime summer delight. This strawberry lime slush is SO EASY to make and only takes a few ingredients, 2 of which are forms of water. Unless you’re making it an alcoholic…
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by Allison 5 • 17 • 2016

My Easy Tips For Putting Together My Weekly Menu

A weekly menu is the best thing since sliced bread. Or cream puffs. Actually, a weekly menu is the best thing since chocolate. Well, maybe not chocolate, that’s crazy talk, but let me put it this way: my weekly menu saves my life. I’ve done every kind of meal planning there is: flying-by-the-seat-of-my-pants planning, organized-but-not-written-down planning, no-planning-of-any-kind, eating-out-instead-of-planning, and most recently, writing-it-all-down-and-being-extra-organized. The best out of all the meal planning options? Writing it all down and being extra organized. For…
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by Allison 2 • 22 • 2016

Easy + Delicious Chicken Salad Sandwich Recipe

Chicken salad sandwiches are for dinner at my house tonight, so I thought I’d share my recipe for you to enjoy. This is one of my favorite quick + easy recipes for dinner, and it’s one my kids always love. The best part is that most of the prep for this chicken salad happens in the crock pot while you’re at work / painting your nails / sleeping / at school / watching TV. It’s amazing. Don’t you love crock…
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by Allison 1 • 19 • 2016

DIY Citrus Season Recipes And Ideas

It’s a huge roundup of citrus recipes and DIY’s for you! A smorgasbord of beauty DIY’s, drinks, bath salts, dessert recipes, and cleaning recipes all using citrus as an ingredient!

by Allison 12 • 22 • 2015

Quick Homemade Christmas Neighbor Gift

Christmas just isn’t Christmas until I’ve made my famous homemade toffee. It’s gotten to the point where if I don’t make it and hand it out as gifts, my neighbors ask if everything is okay at my house. It really is that good, but it takes enough butter that I only make it once a year. It’s my favorite quick, homemade Christmas neighbor gift. And this year I added caramel popcorn for something a little extra delicious. Here’s how the…
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by Allison 10 • 24 • 2015

How To Make Dried Oven Tomatoes

Have you ever made oven dried / roasted tomatoes? Ohmyheavens, it’s time to talk about how to make your own. I have a huge bounty of ripe garden tomatoes and not enough time to make my favorite salsa recipe, so I’m doing the next best thing: I’m making oven dried tomatoes with olive oil and sea salt. It’s the easiest possible way to utilize your fresh garden stock while pimping your pantry for the Winter. And the dividends are…
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by Kimberly 7 • 27 • 2015

Quick Refrigerator Pickles

My Auntie Nan is famous around my hometown for her homemade sweet pickles. She makes and bottles them every year, and delivers them at Christmas time to her friends. My family happily has been on the receiving end of Auntie Nan’s sweet pickles for 3 decades. They are delicious, and always make an appearance on our holiday relish plates. I had wicked cravings for them when I was pregnant–and that dear lady who isn’t really my Aunt at all–mailed me…
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by Allison 6 • 23 • 2015

Orange + Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin Recipe

Orange + lemon poppy seed muffins are on the menu today, and hooray for that because they are the tastiest muffins I’ve ever eaten. Seriously. If you have a couple lemons and oranges kicking around the fruit bowl, all you need to add to those is a little bit of poppy seed and some basic pantry ingredients and you’re halfway to citrus heaven. Can we talk about poppy seeds for a minute? I’ve always loved a good…
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