I have something to admit. :::hangs head::: I like cranberries but they are not totally off the charts for me. Nope..I can take ‘em  or leave ‘em. They are good in things like cookies and such..but I would rather have a big, fat blueberry any day. And, canned cranberry sauce is just…ick. We have it because some of the kids like it…but my daughter Erin makes a rockin’ from fresh cranberry sauce so I usually just concentrate on other things…Like dessert.

When I saw this recipe for chipotle cranberry sauce in Bon Appetit I was somewhat skeptical. But I …read more

You know how you sometimes get behind and have to catch up? Well that is where I am now. I put in a bit of time on Erin’s cake, the stuff for the dinner at Evil Shennanigans, and the church fund raiser today so when I got home this afternoon I got straight into pajamas, grabbed my laptop and told the family they were eating leftovers for dinner. It’s not as bad as you may think, the leftovers are grain fed beef brisket from the dinner last night.
Erin, my daughter, is addicted to mango. It has been one …read more

 
O.k…Gayla sent me a link to this, and it absolutely made my day.
As a homeschool mom I  actually do have to deal with things like the Periodic Table, Venn Diagrams, and dangling participles rather often.  I seriously bake and cook to relax and get away from it all, because, as we all know, nothing repels children (of dishwashing age)  like a dirty kitchen.
This table has things like: