My house has a LOT of stairs leading up to the front door (compared to the one step we had at the condo). If I still lived in the Salt Lake Valley it would be a little bit of an issue having 8 or so steps, but out here, we get a good 10+ inches …

Miracle Pan Release is a bakers best friend! It really works! Your baked goodies slide right out of the pan!  However, every single recipe that I’ve found online has both vegetable shortening AND vegetable oil in it & we cut those fats out of our family’s diet a couple of years ago. Anyway, I decided …

My main goal, in cooking for my family, is to provide nutritious foods that rarely come out of a can or a box. I try to the majority of the time at least. Sometimes that creates a challenge since many of the “already healthified” crock pot recipes seem to lack flavor, or are just plain …

       Salt is definitely one of those food items that is often taken for granted, yet it is such an essential part of our diets.   Lately I have been trying to decide how I wanted to go about adding salt to our food storage. In the past I would usually just buy …

Thanks to our recent move, my husband now has a bit more of a commute to work. I’ve been pretty worried, thinking ahead, about this coming winter and making sure that he’d be ok if he ever broke down on the way home.  This new commute is not only longer, but the roads along the …