Food blog with family recipes
Do you ever have those days where you just don't feel like cooking? Well, I was less than motivated to cook on a few days last week, so you will see some things that didn't get made last week on our menu this week. I hope you'll take a minute to share what's going to be on your menu for the week! Below is our menu plan for January 20th through the 26th... … [Continue reading]
If you follow Dine & Dish at all, you know I love to read. For today's Simplify Saturday I'm telling you about the Kindle Paperwhite... a wonderful little e-reader that has simplified the way I read books. Let me preface this post by saying I have tried and owned numerous e-readers before. We have one of the original Kindles, a second Kindle (my husbands), a Kindle Fire (my sons), a Nook and the Kindle app on the iPad. Until getting the Kindle Paperwhite, I really wasn't a fan of e-books. I enjoyed the convenience of being able to download an e-book whenever I needed one but reading on the devices I listed just didn't feel natural to me. I didn't like the flow, layout, functionality of the other devices. Plus, I found with the devices that were more than just e-readers (Kindle Fire and iPad apps) I would get too distracted by the other apps and things on the devices, which would cut into the time I would spend reading. Even with all of those devices on hand, I found myself turning back to "real" books instead of my e-reader. … [Continue reading]
When someone asks me what my favorite tip is to simplify mealtime, besides menu planning, my answer would be to let breakfast save dinner. Breakfast saves dinner around our house quite often. In fact, even though I've been trying my hardest to stick to a weekly menu plan, there are times in our real life where a meal I have planned isn't going to get made. Either I'm too tired or not in the mood for what's on the plan or I just don't want to cook something complicated...whatever it is it is nights like that where breakfast saves dinner. … [Continue reading]
Mornings around our house are usually mass chaos. No matter what I do to try to be organized the night before, mornings don't seem to change. In fact, we have a little celebration in the car on the way to school on those rare days where I didn't have to turn into "raging maniac mom" to get everyone in gear. I'll say, those little celebrations don't happen too often. That's not something I'm necessarily proud of. … [Continue reading]
(My favorite Instagram photo from the week) January 13th: Ella got a guitar for Christmas. Today, she broke it out in pure rock style fashion... complete with sunglasses and torn tights. I've committed to try and take all of my Project 365 pictures with my DSLR, but if I hadn't, this Instagram picture would have been in this spot. … [Continue reading]
