cooking

Written by contributor Stephanie Langford of Keeper of the Home. When I first became a wife over 8 years ago, I was a disaster in the kitchen. I hardly knew how to make anything from scratch. I cooked chicken until it was rubbery out of fear of undercooking it. I routinely burned half of the things that [...]

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This family?  We are a troupe of chili lovers. We are also a troupe of 4:45pm meltdown-ers. And so one evening, in a clumsy, yet brilliant attempt to balance these two opposing forces in our family, I took a significant shortcut during dinner prep… rather than spending up to fifteen minutes chopping all of these [...]

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I am not a discriminatory person.  I believe that all cookies were created with the inalienable right to be eaten by me. My husband, however, is not such an egalitarian.  To him, a cookie is simply not a cookie unless it is soft and chewy. Now, considering that we are wandering renters, and the ovens [...]

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Learning to cook from scratch is a wonderful thing to learn for both moms and daughters. There is a wonderfully satisfying feeling when you are able to make nourishing good food for your family. Does everything have to be made from scratch? No. But the more you learn to make from scratch the better trained [...]

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