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Roasted Veggie Soup
A couple weeks ago, when we celebrated two Althoff birthdays, I told you that I roasted some turnips from my garden with other fall root veggies. The following day, I mashed the leftovers and stirred...
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Chocolate Playdough
We finally made it yesterday: chocolate playdough. It was easy, smelled amazing, and tasted salty enough that the kids only snuck a couple bites. While they were having fun making meatballs and cookies...
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Whole Wheat Cinnamon-Sugar Bread
On Monday afternoon I doled out the last two slices of bread to Aedan for part of his snack, and flipped through my online cookbook at food.com to determine what type of bread I wanted to make to tide...
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monkey bread
Emma has been requesting monkey bread the past few weeks, which is odd because she’s probably only had it three times in her life. The most recent time was for Joel’s birthday treat at his office in...
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Ham and Cheese Scones
Once a month, I buy a little turkey ham at the grocery store. It’s high in protein, low in fat, and one of the very few meats our kids will readily eat. I have a mental list of things we like to make...
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barking at the moon
Whenever we baked as kids, Dad would mysteriously appear about the same time the mixer or beaters stopped rotating. As a finger hesitated before swiping the side of the mixing bowl, or the rubber...
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Green Eggs and Ham Treats
Aedan and I got a jump on the Dr. Seuss treats this morning while Emma was in school. I dropped blobs of almond bark onto waxed paper, and Aedan put the green M&Ms on. The hams are strawberries...
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More Seussical Treats
Here are the rest of our Kindergarten treats for Dr. Suess’s Birthday. Thing 1 & Thing 2 cupcakes, compliments of the internet. The kids ate these for a fun treat in the afternoon at school, but...
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homemade doughnuts
While Joel played in the hotel arcade with the kids, I made a quick run to the neighboring Tanger outlet center. I wanted to find a new pair of sneakers for Emma, but I was also secretly hoping they...
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cherry pie
Emma and I both look forward to fresh cherries all year-long. Inveitably, though, we reach a point every summer when we find ourselves looking at the last bag of fresh cherries in the fridge and...
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