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Almond milk is a huge kitchen staple for me. I have been trying to reduce the amount of dairy products my family uses lately. I try and substitute almond milk where I can as one small way for getting around dairy. I use it in oatmeal and cereal, for baking, in...

  One of my very first meals I ever learned how to cook when I first found my love of cooking was Chicken Picatta. I remember someone making it on a cooking show I was watching, immediately printed it out and made it the next day.  That was several years ago and...

In an effort to get my husband to eat a little healthier, I offered to make him some kind of breakfast he can take on the go. He leaves for work at 5:30am and usually isn’t hungry before he leaves for work, so he takes something that he can eat at work later. He...

Caleb and I have been trying all of the local Iowa City area restaurants over the winter on our date nights.  We have found some that we just keep going back to, each for different reasons.  I decided to make a post with all of our favorites incase you are needing new...

Do you have a certain food that reminds you of your childhood? I have two favorites that always remind me of my childhood. One of them is my great grandma’s homemade noodles. From the time I was born until the summer before sixth grade I went to my great grandparents’...

Last week was spring break in our area and we didn’t do any exciting trips or anything of that nature for a few reasons. 1.) They are 6 and 3 we have plenty of time for big spring break trips, we want to take them to Disney but want to wait a few years to have a...