Christmas

Recipe for the MOST frugal homemade vanilla extract you can make! Use a quarter of the beans and half the time!! Easy instructions for gift ideas.

The Least Expensive Method to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract (& It’s Faster Too!)

I hate when stores start Christmas preparations as soon as back-to-school stuff is put away. But if you want to make the easiest homemade vanilla extract as a lovely foodie Christmas gift or to use to make your homemade Irish Cream truly from scratch, you’re going to have to start in August! Luckily I have […]

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Whole Foods for the Holidays: St. Nicholas Spice Cookies

Desserts are the feature at the Whole Foods for the Holidays: Real Food Progressive Dinner this week, thanks to our host, Kate of Modern Alternative Mama. Memories of Christmas Cookies For our family at Christmastime, it’s all about the cookies. My mother always made a bazillion varieties, and my husband’s family absolutely focuses on the

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Finally Back! Christmas Prayers, GREENery, Gifts to Keep and Return!

Thanks for hanging in there waiting for me to come back! I wasn’t planning on being away from Kitchen Stewardship® for an entire week (yikes!), but we stayed an extra day with my husband’s family over the weekend, had time to literally unpack and re-pack, then went to my family’s a day earlier than planned.

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