The Blog — snacks

If you've ever hosted a big family Thanksgiving, you know it's not just about preparing the dinner - you have to have snacks and goodies ready too. Because people get munchy waiting for the turkey to finish cooking.  And by people, I mean men and children, because they fear total starvation if they have to wait another 15 minutes to eat. (You know I'm right.) So this year, not only can you have munchies and goodies at the ready, they can be adorable as well.  Just use our free Thanksgiving printables!  First up, cupcake stuff: Click on the picture to...

Before the first frost set in I picked a bunch of super really green tomatoes from my garden.  I know that you can finish ripening a tomato on your window sill, but I wasn't super if that would work with these because they were just so very green.  But there was like 10 of them, and I wasn't going to just let the frost get them. Well, good news, really green tomatoes will, in fact, ripen on your window sill.  It just takes FOREVER.  At least mine did.  But eventually I had juicy red tomatoes, and I had TEN of...

If you're having a party themed around apples then you better be serving some tasty apple-y foods.  Here are three suggestions for easy, healthy, and fun apple recipes. Mini Caramel Apples You can get the recipe and instructions for these mini caramel apples on the Disney Family Fun website.  They're great because everyone loves caramel apples, but who wants to make 30 full sized apples?  Not to mention, how many people can eat a big caramel apple in one sitting when other yummy goodies are to be had? I made these for a kindergarten party once and my only suggestion...

Have you seen the cookies that some people have made that look like fossils?  They're super cute, and the concept seemed pretty easy, so I wanted to make some of our own. Except that I was also feeling very lazy. So I went to the grocery store and bought some premade, preformed sugar cookie dough.  And then I rounded up all of our creepy crawly plastic toys (bugs, frogs, dinosaurs, whatever) and washed them. Then, seeing as I was feeling very VERY lazy, I put ALL the cookies on one cookie sheet.  Because baking two pans of cookies was just...

Happy 4th of July to all of our fellow USA-ers! Here are a couple of last minute free red white and blue printables for just in case you're feeling a teensy bit more patriotic today. Download this "Proud to be an American" 8x10 printable: OR This cute little treat box to fill with snacks while you watch a parade, or light fireworks, or eat at a bbq, or WHATEVER. Just click on whichever you'd like to download and print (easy 4th of July peasy):