If you're lucky enough to know a local beekeeper, you may be able to pick up some raw, honey-scented beeswax with for a good price. However, before you get started on making homemade beeswax candles, lotion bars, reusable food wrap, food-grade crayons, calendula salve, homemade lotion or another project, be aware that unfiltered beeswax comes with [...] Continue Reading
Archives for October 2016
Caramel Apples Recipe
Although I'd love fall to be a blur of pie baking, hay rides and rolling down giant hills with my littles, the reality is I have to be intentional about creating memories between loads of laundry. This year, I set my sights on something simple yet quintessentially fall - caramel apples. Yep, we're talking sweet caramel wrapped around crisp, tart [...] Continue Reading
Soft and Chewy Homemade Caramels
NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. < <-- If that's the first thing you think when you see a candy thermometer mentioned in a recipe, I get it. I'm not always a precise cook, and I don't like to invest my time in difficult recipes that will flop if I throw in an extra grain of salt. Here's the deal, though: If you can count and stir, you can make these [...] Continue Reading
Teach Your Kids To Cook! (Free Mini-Class)
Me: Hey guys, you need to go clean your playroom and then you can do whatever you want until Levi wakes up. Micah: We can play with sharp knives !?!!?!?!? Me: . . . . Maybe it's just me, but the thought of giving my kids knives makes me cringe a little. Unless you count "baking" a potato in the microwave along with a few other - ummm, [...] Continue Reading
Sore Throat Meltaways
Stories of Canadian Thanksgiving pranks gone wrong, ordering coffee in French, and the construction of "Terabithia" by my little ones and their compadres < <-- These are the souvenirs I'm thankful to have brought home from my family's recent meetup with friends in Quebec. Unfortunately, we brought an additional one as well - a sore throat and [...] Continue Reading
