Fresh Frittatas will fuel the rest of your day! A Fresh veggie frittata muffin or two will keep you guilt-free in the kitchen and your family happy at the table. Don’t limit these gems to breakfast! They make great additions to the lunch box or a super quick meal for supper. My recipe is so quick and easy! Simply saute…
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6 Important Questions To Ask Before You Plant That Will Make You a Successful Gardener
The best garden starts with a plan. Start with answers to these important questions.
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Fresh Caprese Salad: It’s What Happens When You Have Basil
How to make 100% fresh Caprese Salad.
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The Versatile Box Grater is the Smartest Kitchen Tool There Is
No, Really! You want fresh coleslaw and you don’t want to drag out the heavy food processor. Not to mention all the pieces of the alleged time-saver that you have to wash afterward. Your old-fashioned box grater is one of the most valuable, versatile tools in your kitchen drawer. I can show you some tips that will make it even…
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How to Stop Being So Busy
If a sense of “something’s wrong” is stirring in your heart, it very well may be that being too busy is driven by an unhealthy hidden felt need. That sense of “something’s wrong” may have grown to a great sense of overwhelm with the whole picture of your life.
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Quick and Easy Strawberry Bread for Strawberry Lovers
Better Than Strawberry Shortcake Strawberry Bread will become your favorite strawberry recipe. Drizzle with fresh strawberry glaze for a rich dessert.
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The Best Seeds That will Make Your Florida Garden Successful
A successful Spring garden starts with growing the kinds of vegetables that do well in the warm Spring season that quickly turns into a hot Summer here in central Florida.
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How to Create a Plan That Will Overcome Christmas Chaos
Peace after chaos The chaos of grandchildren tearing through wrapped presents and the boisterous gaiety around the overflowing dining table was over. It took two days of cooking and baking and two hours of gift wrapping for our large family with all their new littles. And now, it was over. Just like that! The kitchen was a warzone. Piles of…
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Super Practical Ways to Prepare for a Hurricane
Hurricanes are never welcome, but we can turn inconveniences into good family memories. It all depends on what we prepare for. Turn complaints into thankfulness and let your imagination create fun games, stories, and contests with any work that may need to be done. It’s super easy and fairly inexpensive to prepare. Get started with these helpful ideas and recipes…
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The top 7 Vegetables to Grow in the Fall and Where to Buy Them
Sweet carrots, broccoli that keeps on giving, tender round green beans, mustard that springs up year after year, Italian green beans that add comfort to stews,…..they feel like old friends. I can’t wait for September to get here and I can plant these veggies for my Fall garden here in central Florida. Those first garden filled seasons many years ago…
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What is the Best Book to Help with Simple Living?
“When it comes to what we writers do……we are like beggars who try to show other beggars where we found bread.” David Brooks (quoting D.T. Niles) The Second Mountain pg. XXX introduction Simple Living: The search for the best book. There’s good ones, and some are not so good. I love it when an author shares nuggets of wisdom. Sometimes,…
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Why You Need a Simple School Schedule With NO Regrets
When my premie neared the age of deciding what we were going to do about school, I knew it wasn’t a matter of where he would be going. He was not nearly ready for formal education. Back in the early 80s, in a small southern town, I was afraid this child of mine would be put in a “dumb” class,…
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What to Do With All That Wonderful Papaya
The Dilemma It began as an unplanned surprise gift that came out of a compost pile. It went from “what is that?” to blessing me with an incredible amount of fruit. In fact, there was so many that I couldn’t keep up with the bounty. I had a dilemma! I began giving away papaya. At least, I tried. I’m pretty…
