I think most of you know by now that both liZ and I love slow cooker recipes. They are quick, they are easy clean up and they cook while you are doing other things! We have quite a few of them posted in our RECIPE section and I promise all of them are kid and husband approved! And I am also on a mission to find slow cooker recipes that don't taste mushy or like they have cooked all day and lost their flavor.  I promise this Slow Cooker Sticky Chicken drumstick recipe is still juicy and delicious ... View the Post

One thing that we love to make as a family after school is homemade dough. We often make homemade bread or rolls for dinner (and a few extra loaves to pass around the neighborhood), but it is an activity that I can get all of my kids involved in. And there is just something about gathering around the kitchen island rolling out and kneading dough that also initiates conversations that I wouldn't normally get. And I will take that any day of the week. One other recipe that we love to make in ... View the Post

Sunday afternoons are usually our family baking time. We come home from church, put on our comfy clothes and get our dinner and a treat ready with the whole family. And I love it. I think it's one of my absolute favorite times of the week. Each week someone picks out a recipe and sometimes we spend a couple of weeks perfecting that recipe until we declare it our "family favorite." Banana bread has been a trickier one for us as of late. We've tried several different recipes, but because of the ... View the Post

During the week most of the kids and my husband are up and out the door super early so we don't have a ton of time for warm breakfasts. So, on Saturdays we love to make bigger breakfasts for everyone and get their bellies full before mom assigns chores. (I think it's my incentive to get them downstairs sometimes too with late-sleeping teenagers--but it totally works!) This recipe has quickly become a family favorite and I love that it all fits in a blender so the clean up is simple ... View the Post