My youngest daughter loves her Pizza Lunchables, she would eat them for every meal if we would let her. I am not sure if it is the taste or just the fact she gets to construct her lunch. Being out of them we decided to make our own. As many discoveries are found by mistake, [...]
This recipe has been a Christmas morning tradition in our family for several years now. We simply prepare this the night before and put in the oven in the morning while the kids are opening presents. Great with a glass of orange juice Sausage Bread Recipe Ingredients: 1 lb loaf of bread dough (I [...]
My wife made the mistake of mentioning that my daughter and I should bake something for some company that would be coming over in a little over an hour. Not knowing what to bake I passed the decision to my 5 year old who immediately proclaimed we should make chocolate cake. Not having any chocolate [...]
My kids love pancakes, I am more than happy to make them from scratch on the weekends but on the busy school mornings the frozen variety is our only option. This past weekend, we had quite a bit of extra pancake batter so decided to take a stab at making some of my own frozen [...]
The preparation of bread can be quite time consuming, with our current busy schedules it can be impossible to have the time to prepare bread dough from scratch as frequently as you want. To help with this I normally make twice as much dough as I need and freeze the rest. The process to make [...]
When I starting writing my about me post or the typical blog mission statement about its purpose and what and why I was starting this blog I had to start myself a little on the “Whys” since I was getting a little long winded. Instead I decided to break this up into a few smaller [...]
Our family was feeling like some tacos and decided to take my first attempt at making these from scratch, but figured it would be a good opportunity to going a little more homemade. The Contender – Store Bought The competition: Mission 6 inch Flour Tortilla, $3.39 for 8 tortillas Ingredients: Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [...]
In the last post, we proved that it is cheaper to make you own bread dough versus using frozen bread dough though a big question still remains, how much cost does the baking cost add to the overall cost. The Contender – Store Bought The competition: Safeway Butter Top White Bread, $1.50 per loaf Ingredients: [...]
My youngest daughter (5 years old) loves to bake and one of our favorite things to bake on Sundays is fresh baked bread. Now I doubt there are not too many people that could argue that fresh baked bread/rolls from your oven beats store bought bread, though I was curious if I am actually saving [...]