Christmas is such a wonderful time to make memories! I am so blessed to have a childhood full of wonderful memories in the kitchen of my home. Now that I’m a parent I make sure to take the time to create those same type of memories for my children. If you don’t have children of […]

My family always had a huge Christmas Eve dinner, and then we had  huge Christmas Day breakfast. We never did a Christmas day dinner. So naturally I have a ton of Christmas breakfast ideas!

My brother came home from cross country practice one day with a recipe. Apparently his coaches wife made the teams pies and Ben asked her for the recipe! He simply threw all the ingredients together at once and mixed it together (not knowing the usual process of making a pie crust, this didn’t seem like […]

Every Christmas growing up my mom made rice pudding. To be honest, as a kid I didn’t really like it. I would eat it every year though in honor of the tradition. When I eat it now, however, I wonder how I never liked it!!! It’s the most delicious, wonderful, creamy dish ever.

Ham is my family’s meat of choice for our Christmas Eve meal. I know a lot of families do a Christmas Day feast but in my family growing up, we always did our big meal on Christmas Eve. We keep that tradition going. We like just being able to eat left overs on Christmas day and relax! […]

I’ve shared my sister’s softest sugar cookie recipe with you before. It is such an easy recipe as far as sugar cookies go. No need to refrigerate the dough or anything. Plus, they really do turn out soft…every time!

My sister shared this family recipe, coming from her husband’s side of the family. That is one awesome thing about all of me and my sisters being married, we married in to some awesome recipes that we in turn get to share with each other! On that note, this recipe is awesome. My sister told […]

I’ve had so much fun sharing a different cookie recipe with you every day this week! I probably had just as much fun making them…and eating them! Don’t worry, I didn’t eat them all, I actually only kept one plate (now that’s impressive if you ask me). To finish off the week I’m sharing a […]

This fabulous recipe comes from my sister’s website wightbunch.blogspot.com She has awesome cookie recipes on her site. So if you want more than what I’m sharing with you here this week, look there!

DON’T THROW AWAY YOUR PUMPKIN SEEDS!!!!! Once you try this simple recipe you will never toss pumpkin seeds again. My mom always made these when I was a kid. Remember how I’m one of 9 kids? Yeah, we had a lot of pumpkin seeds every year, and my mom put them to good use.