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Tips and Tricks
8 Tips + 10 Apps to Save Money on Groceries
Baking is my stress relief and my creative outlet, and I love doing it. I love coming up with weird ideas and making them a reality with food. I love getting to make (and let’s be honest, eat) so many delicious things. I love hearing when you guys make my recipes and the ways you…
Food Blogger Pro: Only 8 days left to sign up!
Are you a member of Food Blogger Pro yet? If not, you better hurry up! They’re going to be closing their doors to new members in 8 days. If you’re not familiar with Food Blogger Pro, it’s a fantastic online portal with essential tricks and tips to create a food blog, grow its traffic, monetize…
How to Prepare Beets
Dwight Schrute isn’t the only person that likes beets. Beets can be turned into chips, added as a wonderful addition to a salad or soup, and yes – even cake. I know. Now all of you are going to be suspect of me the next time I serve up a slice of cake. I get…
How to Store Fresh Fruit
The toughest thing about fresh fruit is keeping it fresh. Making a mixed fruit bowl to eat for breakfast on a summer morning is a favorite of mine, but keeping it around the house is a delicate balance. If you leave it on the counter for too long, you end up with the nightmare that is…
How to Cook Spaghetti Squash
I’ll never forget the first time I bought a spaghetti squash. It was like watching an alien trying to figure out life on another planet because I had absolutely no idea what to do with it. Should I boil it whole? Smash it with a hammer? Was I supposed to throw the thing off a roof…
Frothing milk (using a mason jar + microwave)
Before I bought my handy dandy electric milk-frother, I had a tried and true process. I warmed milk for my coffee in a small saucepan where it was constantly whisked until it was hot, then I transferred it to a stainless steel jug and used a handheld milk-frother to get it all nice and foamy and…
planning ahead: scheduling social media posts ahead of time.
Due to having a full time job, I don’t have the luxury of creating my blog and social media posts during the day. And since my day job consists of me being on a computer all day, I don’t usually feel like hopping back online once I get home. Once I get home, I…
Music to Bake By
Over time, I’ve discovered that I need a little music when I bake. It helps me get in the zone, and makes the mundane aspects of the process a little more exciting. Slowly add 3 cups of flour by the teaspoon? As long as I can do it while listening to the soothing sound of…
Fight Cravings (and calories!) with Food Swapping
Everyone has a time where they think to themselves, “Maybe I should go on a diet.” But to be honest, I couldn’t diet to save my life (I suppose that’s pretty literal) – I love food entirely too much. As you may have noticed, I don’t make a huge effort to make my recipes “healthy”,…
coffee + vanilla
Fall is one of the seasons where I’m all about comfort foods and comforting scents (the other is Winter). I crave macaroni and cheese, hot apple cider and the calming scent of vanilla and coffee. I’ve found that the best way to quell all these needs is to: Always have the ingredients for macaroni and…
DIY Nautical Rope Candle Holder
Okay friends – I completed my first DIY for the new house: Nautical Rope Candle Holders! I have two kinda large glass candle holders that I’ve been considering throwing out because I just didn’t like them anymore. Happily, I found a way to freshen them up and give them a new life in our new…
Pinterest Analytics
While checking my emails this morning, I saw one with the subject line, “Introducing Pinterest Web Analytics”. The geek in me was ecstatic. I monitor my Google Analytics for my blog like crazy, and knowing I’d have another platform for analyzing my online content… well, I geeked out over it. Here’s what you need to…
How To Organize Your T-Shirt Drawers
One of my biggest problems in my current apartment is space. I don’t have any. My boyfriend and I moved into this one bedroom, small apartment and we still have 6 months before we can move into something more appropriate (read: a spare room I can escape to for yoga, blogging, talking to myself without…
How to Make Shredded Chicken
I have a lot of recipes that require shredded chicken, so I thought I would share a tutorial on how to shred chicken breasts. First, you’ll want to have thawed chicken breasts. If they’re frozen, it will still work but it will take longer. Place the chicken in a boiling pot of water…
9 Tips for Organizing Your Pinterest Boards
Anyone who knows me is aware that I’m a bit OCD. And having a small, one bedroom apartment that I share with my boyfriend pretty much pushes my OCD tendencies over the edge because there’s not enough space for me to organize the way I want to. Enter Pinterest. Pinterest is my outlet for organization. I can…