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Category Archives: Cooking Tips and Tricks
Bread Heels and Bread Crumbs
Do you sometimes find nothing but the two heels when you go to get a piece of bread? No one in my family likes the heels of store bought bread, and though I’ll eat them and try to hide them … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Sunny
Tagged bread crumbs, bread heel, dinner, easy, eating, food, freezer, healthy, homemade, kids, leftovers, loaf
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What?!? Another Bad Fat?!?
It seems that the scare and recent guidelines concerning trans fats have opened many peoples’ eyes to this dangerous fat snuck into many foods found at the grocery store under the name of “partially hydrogenated oil”. Being an ingredient label … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Heidi
Tagged bad fat, fat to avoid, interesterified fat, reading labels, trans fat
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Oven Pancakes using Coconut Oil
As promised in my previous post on coconut oil, here is my recipe for oven pancakes (a.k.a. puffed oven pancakes, baked pancakes, Dutch babies, german pancakes, etc.). This is the recipe for one batch, but with my teenage boys, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Health & Weight, Recipes, Sunny
Tagged breakfast, coconut oil, dutch, food, German, healthy, leftovers, oven pancakes, pancakes, peaches, recipe
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Frozen Fruit
Spring and Summer! Two of my favorite times of year. My other two are Fall and Winter, in case you were wondering. But one thing I absolutely love about Spring and Summer is the variety of FRUIT that becomes available! … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Cheri, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, The Moms
Tagged blueberries, frozen fruit, jam, raspberries, shakes, smoothies, strawberries
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Using Coconut Oil–Why and How
I heard about using coconut oil at a dinner with my healthy eating dinner group. My hostess had mixed it with garlic and herbs and served it instead of butter to put on bread. It doesn’t have that buttery flavor, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, For You, Goals, Health & Weight, Recipes, Sunny
Tagged butter, coconut oil, cooking, cosmetics, fat, food, goals, hair care, healthy, homemade, lotion, moisturizer, navajo fry bread, non hydrogenated, pie crust, skin care, sopapillas, tortas fritas
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Pizza Seven Ways
Does your family love pizza as much as mine does? We typically have pizza once a week, and often in conjunction with “Pizza and a Movie Night”. It’s a fun tradition. But ordering pizza once a week isn’t in our … Continue reading
Green Smoothies for Teens
and Other Green-o-phobes
You may have read my post on green smoothies in which I promised a follow up on trying to get my teenagers to drink them. I have been working on the challenge, and this is what I’ve come up with … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Recipes, Sunny
Tagged banana, beets, berries, blender, cabbage, children, cups, eating, food, fruit smoothies, green smoothie, healthy, hidden vegetables, kids, kids and vegetables, recipe, smoothie, spinach, teenagers, vegetables
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Perfect Pie Crust
At last, I have successfully made pie crust. I know, I can already hear the majority of you balking at me saying, “Pie crusts are so easy! How could it take you so long?!?!” If you’re saying that right now. … Continue reading
Posted in All Writers, Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Janae
Tagged foil, no shortening, pie crust, recipe
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Long-Lasting Bananas?!?!?! Can it Be?
Yep, you heard me. Bananas actually CAN last longer than just a few days after you get them home from the store. And not only can they last, but they can stay just as firm as they day you brought … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Tips and Tricks, Food, Janae, The Moms
Tagged banana, cooking tip, food storage, storage
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Muffins Unite for a Greener Planet!
Have you ever made a bowl full of muffin batter, only to discover that you’re out of paper muffin cups? The only alternative is to spray that muffin tray and dash with flour, but that leaves a good clean-up for … Continue reading