Having Caleb home for the holidays and Abigail not working or playing ball has been wonderful.  One of the things we'e always done t...

Our adventures today unfolded much like the Laura Numeroff, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Today's adventure would be titled something...

You can tell the boy is back home because we are out of salsa!  I'm pretty confident it runs through his veins.    We made a ru...

Whether you say tomato or  tomahto we have both!  As an avid canner, I keep a tally of what I need to can next.  We seem to go through ...

It's cold weather and the boy is leaving to return to college, so today I'm canning!  I find cooking enjoyable and soothing! Sou...

My favorite menu item at P.F. Chang’s is their amazing lettuce wraps.  We'e made a copy cat version of their recipe at home with the ch...

Pinterest sucked me in again with an endless feed of canning recipes that I had never tried.  Since it is that time of year for Thanksg...

I have a special relationship with Sonic.  When I was pregnant with Caleb I craved their cheddar peppers and a Coke Zero with Cherry.  Th...

In the Spring the girls and I went berry picking for blackberries and blueberries.  When we came home we washed and froze them up in fr...

So I like to can and I like hummus, that means today I will be canning garbanzo beans.  Keep in mind Garbanzo  beans are also good for so...

A staple at the holidays is my mom's sweet potato casserole. I grew up with the store bought cans of sweet potatoes.  Once I discovered ...

On my little blog here, you know the one I started because none of our family lives in Texas.  I wanted our family to be able to enjoy and ...

Tonight we have several commitments so I needed an easy dinner, hmm that sounds like I need to break out some of those cans! Abigail sa...

For several weeks I've had this brain child for canning cubed chicken.  We have been canning shredded chicken for years, it's one...