A few years ago I was searching for butternut squash recipes and found a beautiful picture of a chicken stew. I clicked over to read the recipe and was immediately disappointed. The black bits in the stew were olives, and I’m not a fan. The black color was part of what made the dish so […]
This isn’t a new recipe to this blog, but it’s still one of my favorites. The soft inside and chewy outside make a lovely grab and go breakfast. I originally wrote this post in 2015. Grant is now in 1st grade! I don’t regret spending that last year with him, and even though the kids […]
These cinnamon rolls start with a pumpkin based yeast dough, filled with cream cheese caramel, for an ooey gooey breakfast treat that triples as a perfect dessert or after school snack. The dough is the same as our Pumpkin Dinner Roll Dough, but halved so it will fit in your bread machine. Of course you […]
These tender rolls are light, delicious and child approved. Mildly sweet, these rolls are the perfect compliment to a Thanksgiving feast (or an autumn after school snack.)
These soft rolled sugar cookies have a nice pumpkin spice flavor but are not too cake like. They hold their shape while baking and with the pumpkin spice glaze are pretty much irresistible. It’s a Coffman original recipe.
While canned pumpkin is really delicious, it’s super easy to make homemade pumpkin puree to use in all your fantastic recipes. Homemade puree freezes really well for year long stockpiling. Even though pumpkin pie, bread, doughnuts, pancakes, cookies, muffins…..dot our winter menus long after October, especially around Thanksgiving and Christmas, the time to grab […]
At the last minute, I decided to participate in the Write 31 Days blog challenge. I participated two years ago and loved how it challenged me to post more often. I took the year off last year, but am jumping back in this time with 31 Pumpkin Recipes :). Some are recipes I’ve had in my […]
Thank you to everyone who weighed in on the survey. If you missed it, you can still add your opinion. I’ll be checking the final answers next Tuesday and working to meet the needs expressed there. It’s no surprise that most of you are here to shrink your grocery budgets! I love that, because food […]
You know the mom that calls to invite you to the party happening in 2 days because she forgot to send out invitations? That’s me. This year I decided I was going to plan ahead, and have invitations printed a couple of months in advance. Then I set a google reminder to mail them a few weeks ahead. It […]
2 weeks ago my 5th child turned 8. That’s a significant birthday in our family and calls for a big party. The point of this post isn’t to show off gorgeous photos. (I’m terrible at photography.) It’s just to show that a lot of fun can be had with a budget. The guests talked about […]