Use these tips for how to keep cooked turkey moist and prevent your cut turkey slices from drying out during your holiday parties. Even if you have taken every precaution to create a moist and tender turkey, the meat can still dry out fairly fast after it has been cut. Nobody enjoys dry turkey! And itRead More
How to Season and Clean Cast Iron Pots and Pans
To some people cooking with cast iron seems a little outdated. If you are not familiar with cast iron you might be a little intimidated by the maintenance of seasoning your cast iron. However, cooking with cast iron is very easy and once you get used to it you will be sold! This is theRead More
11 Holiday Cooking and Baking Hacks
These holiday cooking and baking hacks will save you time and decrease your stress during the holidays. One of my favorite things to do during the holiday season is cook, but it can be quite a daunting task as well. I love to find ways top make my cooking easier, quicker, and more efficient soRead More
Ways to Save Money While Eating Healthy Snacks
This post has been sponsored by Brita® and Glad®. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Eating healthier foods doesn’t have to cost you more money. In fact, it is possible to save money while eating healthy snacks using the tips below. A few years ago as I was analyzing my grocery bill, I realized I spentRead More
How to Substitute Maple Syrup for Sugar and 15 Recipes Using Maple Syrup
Maple syrup can be used to sweetened anything you would normally sweeten with sugar. Here is how to substitute maple syrup for sugar in recipes, as well as 15 recipes using maple syrup. While I realize that maple syrup is a spring food since the trees are usually tapped in the spring. The long shelfRead More
How to Deep Clean Your Refrigerator
These tips on how to deep clean your refrigerator make it easy to get a fresh and sparkling fridge. We keep our food there, so you would think most of us are more careful about how clean it is. The truth is, the fridge is one of the most neglected areas in most kitchens. It’sRead More
How to Deep Clean a Microwave
Feeling overwhelmed by the mess in your microwave? Here is a handy guide on how to deep clean a microwave. I don’t use my microwave for much other than warming food up. This also tends to be the messiest thing to use it for, especially when I have teenagers operating it who like to leaveRead More
How to Clean Your Toaster
Cleaning your toaster may not be the first thing that pops into your mind when cleaning the kitchen, but it is important to keep your toaster running safely. Here is a quick guide on how to clean your toaster. Do you clean your toaster very often? Most people don’t even think about it because it’sRead More
How to Clean Your Oven
Not 100% sure how to clean your oven? Follow this guide for tips on cleaning with store bought and homemade cleaning solutions. The oven is undoubtedly one of the most neglected areas of most kitchens. I would say it is only second to the fridge in most homes. One of the reasons the oven getsRead More
15 Wonderful Ways to Make Frozen Treats
When those long summer months stretch out before you, you need to know some great ways to make frozen treats. From molds to recipe books and more, you’ll find lots of help staying cool and quenching your thirst in this helpful guide! (This post contains affiliate links.) When those long hot summer months stretch outRead More
9 Ways to Save Money in the Kitchen
Your kitchen can be a large drain on your budget for many reasons. Here are 9 Ways to Save Money in the Kitchen by organizing and cutting down on waste. Your kitchen, while the heart of your home, is also very likely the biggest money drain in your budget and for good reason. Between highRead More
8 Things You Need to Easily Make Fun Lunches for Kids
Here are some easy tips to help you make fun lunches for kids even if you are short on time. Parenting is so much harder with the standards Pinterest has set for us. The struggle to keep up with the Joneses went from who has the biggest TV to who has the cutest lunches andRead More
Freezing Fresh Produce – Tips for Freezing Fruits, Vegetables, & Herbs
If you have an abundance of produce from your garden or you loaded up at the farmers market and need to preserve the freshness until it can be used up- freezing is a great way to go. I touched on this briefly in the first post of this series, How to Make Your Produce LastRead More
How to Make Quinoa Flour
Mockmill sent me a grain mill attachment for my KitchenAid mixer to review. While reviewing the grain mill, I created this tutorial for how to make quinoa flour. The opinions and tutorial are mine. I love cooking with quinoa and I enjoy the flavor of quinoa pasta, so it was only natural that I wouldRead More
How to Cook Bacon in the Oven
You can cook bacon in the oven. Seriously. This tip for how to cook bacon in the oven is from my cookbook Prep-Ahead Meals From Scratch. You are going to love this method once you realize how easy it is to bake bacon instead of cooking it on the stove top. When I cook bacon, I like to batch cook severalRead More
Quick and Easy Garlic and Herb Crouton Recipe
This is a quick and easy crouton recipe that is made using sliced bread, olive oil, and spices. Homemade croutons are so good! Croutons also happen to be easy to make and cost so much less than buying them from the store, especially if you make them with homemade bread. Making homemade croutons also gives youRead More
How to Batch Cook – Batch Cooking Video Tutorials and Tips
In my cookbook, Prep-Ahead Meals From Scratch, I share multiple ways to prepare large batches of different staples that can then be quickly combined into a variety of easy meals through the week. The cookbook includes batch cooking techniques for beef, chicken, pork, beans, and rice. By batch cooking, you can prep the ingredients for multiple family-friendly meals at once, ultimately savingRead More
Holiday Kitchen Hacks Using Paper Towels
The holidays are always hectic, but they are going to be even crazier for me as I prepare to go on a book tour in January. I just got home today from a trip pertaining to my book. My travel is seriously cutting into my holiday prep. This means I will need to employ time saving hacks to prepareRead More
Tips for Creating the Perfect Gingerbread House
It’s something on just about everyone’s list of things to make every holiday season: a gingerbread house. The biggest problem with gingerbread houses is they look fairly simply, but when you get to making one, you often find out they are anything but that. So much goes into making one that there are so manyRead More
How to Dry Herbs – 4 Methods to Dry Fresh Herbs
I enjoy growing herbs and being able to use fresh herbs in recipes throughout the summer. However, once the herbs begin to bolt or colder temperatures threaten the plants with a freeze, I know it is time for me to give up my fresh herbs and dry the herbs, so I can use the dried herbs all winter long. ThereRead More
