Tag Archive: Spices

My Favorite Spices + A Giveaway! (WFMW)

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For this week’s Works for Me Wednesday post, I thought I’d share one of my best secrets for great tasting foods… Herbs and spices!

That may seem a bit obvious, but I’m often surprised by how little some of my friends and family use herbs and spices in their cooking. Even when they do use a dried herb or a spice to flavor their food, they use so little of it that it hardly makes a difference (granted, there are some flavors where a little goes a long way, and I realize that!).

Friday Favorites – Episode 53

Can you believe it’s Friday already? Time has been flying lately, and it’s not slowing down anytime soon! This weekend is our neighborhood’s annual yard sale, and I am having my second bake sale for the Great American Bake Sale, so I’m busy baking and cleaning out the basement. What a fun combo, huh? So,…

Friday Favorites – Episode 29

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for my Friday Favorites…  Are all of you sick of these yet?  I can’t believe I’ve written 29 weeks of favorites already. As far as I know, many of you are still reading (and even enjoying?) my list of favorite blog posts each week.  As long as you’re still reading,…

Cajun Bean Soup and Lessons Never Learned

I remember it like it was yesterday… Mrs. Weist, my first grade teacher, handed out a coloring assignment with a long list of directions at the top. I immediately got to work, coloring furiously as I worked my way down the list of directions. About halfway down the list, though, I ran into trouble. One…