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Filed Under: Home Management · Recipes · 3 Moms 3 Kitchens Series

I Finally Decided On Dessert!

My sweet tooth decided to make Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies for our dessert tonight. After much consideration—and a little web surfing—I finally decided to make some cookies. I found a recipe and tweaked it to my liking, and the cookies turned out great—they were just chocolately enough, but not too sweet. Chewy Chocolate Chip […]

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Day 19: Soaking Whole Grains? (3 Moms)

I spent a good deal of time this morning surfing the internet and reading about soaking whole grains, something I had never heard of prior to this week. I'm yet a little fuzzy on the why's and wherefore's of it all so I'm still going to have to do a little more research, but what […]

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Menu Plan Monday: Week of May 19—SAFE meals

Safe meal planning hopefully will give me confidence for the future. I managed to make all the meals I had planned for last week, so here's what I have on deck for this week. I realize my dinner choices are a little mundane, but I'm trying to branch out only a little bit at a […]

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The Lazy Weekend, Days 16, 17, & 18 (3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days)

We have a fun but lazy weekend with a movie, shopping, and waffles on our new waffle iron. It's been a nice, relaxing weekend. Fridays are my husband's regular day off, so we took the kids to see Prince Caspian at 11:30 on Friday. We hadn't been to a movie as a family since the […]

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Day 15: Loafing Around (3 Moms, 3 Kitchens, 31 Days)

Loafing around? No, it's not what you think. I baked a loaf of bread today. And I finally got smart and tried out my old mixer to see if it would knead bread dough. It's definitely not a KitchenAid, but it worked well enough for the amount of dough I had. (Thanks, Toni and Kate […]

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Day 14: Yo-Yo All Day (3 Moms…)

Today was another Yo-Yo (you are on your own) day. We ate breakfast from the freezer again—and you know, I think I'm really beginning to like having breakfast ready-made in the freezer. Lunch and dinner was leftover chicken spaghetti and peanut butter sandwiches. I was hoping to delay my shopping trip until Friday, but I […]