How did I not know about this? Also, my next shop product.

I received this from my husband yesterday in an email and became too distracted at the sight of maple bacon doughnuts to finish my housewife duties. Now I’m obsessed with finding these. They are everywhere, except here with me – their mama. Jack, this would have been helpful information to have, I don’t know…, like when [...]

Grandma Ople’s Apple Pie – the “best ever”

I am forced by my family to make the same apple pie for every holiday. I love all kinds of pie and like to change it up. Chess, pecan, banana caramel, sometimes pumpkin. Does my family like any of those kinds of pie around the holidays? Nope. They insist on this apple pie ever since I [...]

Why Didn’t I Think of That? Beater Blade

I’m really a frustrated inventor at heart. I love/hate coming across products that are awesome and that I can’t live without. I’m happy that my life will be better, but it bugs me that I didn’t think of it.

It’s like Spanx. I know a lot of people were cutting off their pantyhose before Sara Blakely made [...]

Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey in Less Time

This post, and the following two, are from my old blog. I loved putting these posts together and wanted to bring them on over to my new place. I’m just sentimental that way. I hope you enjoy them and I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. I’m also at Aiming Low  today, talking more turkey.

One of [...]

How To Dry-Brine a Turkey – My Experience

If you are interested in how to dry brine a turkey, please read the next post on what the experts say to do. The following is an account of how it all turned out for me.

The dry turkey brine experiment this year was a total success, and I will be repeating it at Christmas. Every Thanksgiving [...]

How to Dry-Brine a Turkey – From the Experts

I have become obsessed with dry-brining my turkey this year. They say this method became popular due to the Zuni Cafe’s super-tasty dry-brined chicken. I have been scouring the interwebs to make sure I know everything I can about this process. Plus, I’m lazy. There’s a certain amount of work involved with wrestling a wet, hairless bird in [...]

Halloween Is In the Bag

Another Halloween is over! We had a fantastic time and have enough candy to last until Valentine’s Day. Maybe. I was able to overcome my unexplained sluggishness of late and really do it up this year.

We had a party for the kids and their friends, and I went a little nuts with themed food and fun. [...]

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