I’ve never posted this recipe as it is just so easy but we needed a copy the other day so here it is…
Easy Fruit Dip
Ingredients:
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 7 oz jar of Marshmallow creme
Tag: homemade
Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing
One of my kiddos who loves Red Velvet Cake recently requested one for her birthday. We had to make it dairy-free… it was a little work but we succeeded. I used a boxed cake which said it was dairy-free.
I’ll try to update this with a printable recipe card later but you can print out the cream cheese icing recipe and write in the changes.
Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing
Ingredients:
- 8 oz cream cheese (dairy free)
- 1 stick margarine (dairy free)
- 1 lb confectioner’s sugar
- 1 t. vanilla
- 1 t. Cream cheese flavoring (optional)
Directions:
Cream all of the icing ingredients together and spread on cooled cake.
Sprinkle the top with any crumbs that may have fallen off the cake.
Stomach Bugs, Garden Bugs, and a Bathroom Remodel
Whew! What a week… we finally got started on our master bathroom remodel but it is far from being completed. When we started peeling back the flooring we found that this was not the first time the floor had been ‘fixed’ and we also found more of the drywall mud patches on the floor like we had found in the kitchen and laundry room. We also found that some of the previous fixes included glue and nails which made the removal process more tedious but more on that in a bit.
Our garden has been coming along quite well other than a surge of pests which are eager to eat all of the food we’ve been working so hard to grow. The weather has been extremely hot but we have been getting a few showers that have helped. I did invest in a couple of new sprinklers that I’ll try to share about later. We have been putting up a few more videos on YouTube as well if you’d like to check them out.
Grannie’s Tuna Salad
Mr. Awesome, his dad, and his brother went fishing a bit ago and his brother had brought some tuna salad for lunch. I guess it was pretty good because I keep hearing about it and about how amazing it is to eat with Frito scoops! I haven’t tried it yet but plan to do so soon!
I never got the chance to meet Grannie but I’ve tried some of her recipes and they have been AMAZING so I’m sure this one will be too!
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Special Holiday Meals: Valentine’s Day Menu & Activities
It’s so hard to believe that we are almost through half of February!! Where oh where has the time gone?
We’ve been busy around here with the greenhouse, moving animals, setting up compost systems, and getting garden beds ready for planting, which should happen pretty soon. We are hoping to get some potatoes planted this week.
I believe that Valentine’s Day started out as a religious holiday, but it has now become a major spending event for those who are romantically involved. It’s crazy to see the amount of money spent on candies and cut flowers! We watched a clip on World Watch, and it was eye-opening! You can read more about Valentine’s Day traditions HERE.
Valentine’s Day: A Day To Celebrate or Not?
I can remember the days when my older kids went to public school… I’d always be scrambling to come up with money for Valentine’s and candies to send with them. Then my kiddos would come home with stories of how other parents had surprised their kiddos with balloons, chocolates, and flowers. I’d always feel like I hadn’t done ‘ENOUGH’ and I’d scramble some more to buy them a little box of candy or something special.
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