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How to Make a Healthy Lunch with Leftovers
Anna is our queen of using a mixture of leftovers and turning out an amazing dish. We want to encourage you moms on how you can use your creativity with leftovers and make a quick lunch. Here is a...
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Easy Homemade Chocolate Syrup for Mochas
I want to share with you this super easy homemade syrup that I use in my mochas. It’s simple. 1 cup cocoa, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, a little salt, and vanilla Add cocoa. Sugar. Stir. Salt. We use this...
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How to Plan Your Thanksgiving Meal Efficiently
I like simplifying holiday meal work. Here are a couple of things I do for Thanksgiving. I have a file on my computer simply titled “Thanksgiving” where I list the year, what we had to eat, who was...
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Make the Most of Your Leftovers, Part 1
Welcome to a new series: Make the Most of Your Leftovers. We plan to continue this, giving you ideas on how you can use leftovers. Anna has developed quite an art of putting together leftovers into...
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Delicious Vegetable Beef Soup
Remember when I multitasked and browned ground beef for something sometime? I was working in the kitchen doing other meal prep. Recently, we put that ground beef to good use. All the kitchen helpers...
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How to Make Taco Meat in Your Instant Pot
As homeschool moms, easy meals are one of your best friends. So if you have an Instant Pot, here’s just the recipe! Special thanks to Melanie as I shadowed her for this. Easy Instant Pot Tacos 2 lbs....
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How We Flash Freeze Strawberries
We regularly use frozen strawberries in smoothies and yogurt. When they are in season, we buy 10 to 12 pounds at a time, for a great price, to flash freeze. Our frozen strawberries are less expensive...
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Garden in a Glass
About four years ago because of the recommendation of a chiropractor, we began juicing. At that time we had good friends who had completed a month-long, juice-only fast. They were our resident experts...
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Teri’s Favorite Chicken in Chipped Beef
We wanted to share with you a super simple chicken dish our family enjoys. Teri’s Favorite Chicken in Chipped Beef 2 pkgs. 2 ounces each chipped beef (we like Carl Buddig brand) 6 medium-size chicken...
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Happy First Day of Autumn!
Y’all, I’m so excited! Today is the first day of autumn. Here in Kansas, this season means crisp temperatures, sunsets painted of pinks and oranges, vibrant hues of red, orange, and yellow leaves, and...
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Cherry Tart
Do remember our Austrian blog friend who sent us a cherry stoner (see this post)? She also sent us her favorite cherry tart recipe, which we wanted to try out with the cherries we stoned and froze. We...
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Melanie Maxwell’s Christmas “Pick” Recipe
Now that we’re onto another second sister-in-law recipe, you may have figured out what we’re doing. A blog reader requested the sisters-in-law favorite Christmas recipes! So, we’re working on...
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A Week of Maxwell Dinners
We had a request to share some of our main-meal menus. We keep those in a Google Spreadsheet that the cooks can access from their computers or phones. I copied a week from there to post here. Saturday...
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How to Make Chocolate Mousse
In 1989 when Nathan was 13 years old, our homeschool group hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for the seniors in our church. Served at that meal was chocolate mousse cake, and Nathan thought it was so...
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Welcome Autumn and a Pumpkin Muffin Recipe
Maxwells’ Pumpkin MuffinsThere’s something so beautiful about autumn in Kansas, and today, we welcome it officially! God is gracious to allow the sun to rise each day and to set. The seasons are...
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Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal, An Autumn Recipe
Y’all this is a happy first day of autumn but about two weeks late post! I love autumn: the colorful leaves, cool temperatures, vivid blue skies, pumpkin treats, cozy evenings, and beautiful walks....
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How to Make Healthy, Simple Soup
Our family enjoys soup year round. For most of my married life, I made soup from a recipe. Then my daughter, Anna, introduced me to making soup with a general plan but not specifics. Isn’t it great...
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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’d like to introduce you to a gem of a recipe we found years ago on the back of a Gold Medal flour bag. We modified the recipe, and you’ll see what we’ve turned it into below. It’s an easy-to-make...
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Maxwell’s Basic Homemade Granola
We’d like to share our simple, granola recipe that we love pairing with yogurt. Maxwell’s Granola Recipe Preheat oven to 350º. Heat on the stove just to boiling: 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup honey Add 1...
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