Peanut Butter Choc-Oat Bars {With Peanut Butter Glaze}

Peanut Butter Choc-Oat Bars

Sometimes you just crave a classic.  Something easy made from pantry ingredients already on hand.  Something with an old-fashioned combo that tastes like warm memories.  Peanut Butter Choc-Oat Bars is it!   When I teased Facebook with the above photo, a reader remembered these bars from camp.  I remembered the good ol’ days of chewy [...]

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Preparing for Crazytown {and our menu this week}

track

Watching our cousin run the hurdles LIVE at the state track meet last week, from the comforts of home?  A Finer Thing, for sure! Summer is officially in full swing, and it’s about to get REAL around here.  I’m a homebody, friends.  Those of you who do this every day receive my full admiration, but [...]

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How to Keep an Avocado Fresh

How to Keep an Avocado Fresh

Avocados are a fantastic source of quality fat, a yummy addition to Tex-Mex foods, and a perfect soft “first food” for baby.  We go through a lot of them!  I struggled, though, with keeping  the pretty green color, especially after dicing or mashing them up for our little one.  They almost immediately turn an unappetizing [...]

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Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

Our favorite fall dessert is apple crisp.  In the spring, that same deliciousness gets a tart twist with strawberries and rhubarb.  So yum, especially served warm with a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream! What’s your favorite rhubarb dish?  (I don’t think I’ve ever had it without strawberries…)

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Menu Plan, Make it or Break it Week

making oatmeal

The big kid, the one with leftover orange smelly marker mustache from the last day of school, insisted on helping me make blueberry baked oatmeal late one night last week.  I may have sighed a little (go to bed already!) but we did it anyway.  This “Yes, Mom” moment brought to you by the foresight [...]

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