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Playing with Russian Piping Tips – Purple Cake Frosting Flowers
Playing with Russian piping tips for cake decorating this morning, and made some purple cake frosting flowers: They looked so cool I had to add a little floral drawing action! https://youtu.be/v0Uvl6qEFuM Joy turns 3 in March, so I’m excited to really get crazy with her birthday cake thanks to all of the amazing shapes included…
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How to Make the Best Cup of Coffee
I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for Folgers. I received product samples to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for my participation. It’s been a good long while since I’ve been able to properly celebrate Fancy Coffee Friday, out at a coffee house sipping a mocha…
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Best Restaurants for Families with Kids in New Orleans
Traveling with kids presents a special challenge, especially in a festive town like New Orleans. Where can you take them where they won’t be just completely blindsided with partygoer shenanigans? They need a place where happy excited kids on vacation will be not only tolerated, but welcome with open arms. And that restaurant better have a…
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Recipes from TV: Hot Ham Water from Arrested Development
Last weekend, Josh was making us up some delicious fried ham and cheese sandwiches for lunch. Whenever he’s done cooking in the cast iron skillet, he likes to pour water in the really hot pan to help loosen up some of the stuff that’s crusted up on the sides. And when he did it this…
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Guess Phil’s Favorite Movie Based on Food (Hint: It’s Star Wars) #starWars
So a couple of weeks ago, I posted on Facebook that we were seriously thinking about introducing Phil to the Star Wars movies. Where can you watch Star Wars online, anywhere? Amazon Prime?I want the original 1977 one please and thank you.I'll also settle for a youtube clip of Bill Murray lounge singing about Star…
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Fancy Coffee Friday – Iced Coffee Recipe
Lately it seems like I’ve been bailing on Fancy Coffee Friday. Bailing isn’t the right word – putting it on the back burner just a tiny bit is totally correct, though. It’s been such a long standing tradition (over five years now!), that I sometimes have to re-evaluate how to keep it going. Up until…
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3 Ways to Save Water
Thanks so much to Influenster and Neutrogena for the free sample! All opinions expressed are my own. Earth Day is coming up on April 22, and if you’ve been wondering how you can celebrate, why not learn 3 ways to save water? You’ve come to the right place, because I’ve got three tips for saving…
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What is the Brat Diet?
If you’ve been following the saga on my personal Facebook page, you know that the sick has been a major part of our house for like 2 full weeks now. What kind of sick sticks around for 2 full weeks? The kind that your baby girl picks up, passes on to her brother, who in…
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10 Best Restaurants in Orange County for Family Vacations
I don’t know about you, but the beginning of the new year brings the beginnings of plans for family vacations. If you’re plotting a trip to southern California this summer, take a tip from Josh and I. We both grew up in soCal, and when we made a quick jaunt back to our old stomping…
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Easy Pasta Bake Recipe
I tried out a really easy pasta bake recipe for dinner recently, and it’s one I’m absolutely keeping on hand for the future. We’ve had this kids’ recipe book for a while, and for the most part Phil is so picky he’s not into anything but peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or toddler food from…
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What is Clean Eating?
Thanks so much to eMeals for letting us try out your awesome meal planning service! All opinions as I discovered the answer to my question “What is clean eating?” are my own. A while back, we got a great chance to try out eMeals. It was really awesome for helping us get a handle on…
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Reese’s Spreads Make Everything Better
It’s my firm belief that peanut butter and chocolate make everything better. That makes it pretty exciting that Peanut Butter Chocolate Reese’s Spreads are available for all your snacking needs! You wanna eat apples? Slap some chocolate and peanut butter Reese’s Spreads on there. A chocolate and peanut butter covered apple a day might not…
