Ask Auntie Leila! We’ll start with a reader’s question and then I will tell you the secret that will set you on your way to success in homemaking. Dear Auntie Leila: I’m a new reader to your blog and LOVE it. Pardon me if you’ve addressed something like this before and I haven’t gotten to it.… Read More »
Five food thoughts, since we’re talking about it.
Some of you are new readers, so I wanted to be sure that you know how much is in the archives! Please do look at the menu bar (you might have to come to the site itself) and poke around, especially these days of me being a slow blogging blogger. Since the topic of… Read More »
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12 things to stash that will help you get supper on the table
The other day I had bread dough rising in the fridge, as I often do, and then I remembered about it and put it on the wood-burning stove, which I had just lit, so that it could come to room temperature and I could do something awesome with it. Then I went into the other… Read More »
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Menu-Making Roundup — all the Worksheets!
Live crabs in a Hong Kong storefront “Oranger peel” — probably better than “old orange peel”? — in Hong Kong I have been doing some much-needed rescuing of my content from an early wrong turn on the blogging highway. I had some things I needed to tell you. Some of you kindly tell me to… Read More »
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The secret to packing lunches without too much pain.
Thanks to Ann Kroeker for the link! So, just to round out our food discussion for the nonce, I thought I would touch on that touchy subject, lunch. With a secret to packing lunches, below. It’s touchy to me because I detest it. I can hardly even say it. Are you ready for “b-lunch?” “su-lunch?”… Read More »
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How can I make making breakfast sound appealing?
Because it’s got to be done. There must be breakfast. Cereal alone doesn’t cut it. Do you wonder why your kids are crabby? Are there meltdowns at your house as you start math? Do you have a child who gets headaches? Do you feel shaky sometimes? I have outlined how to get breakfast organized once… Read More »
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VIII: Save a Step at Breakfast
{I first published this as a Google document, mainly because I wasn’t going to have any pictures to go with it, and you know I like posts to have pictures. My thought was that this should be something easy for you to print out and put in your menu binder. But now Google has messed… Read More »
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VII: Breakfast Recipes, including Buttermilk Baking Mix
{I first published this as a Google document, mainly because I wasn’t going to have any pictures to go with it, and you know I like posts to have pictures. My thought was that this should be something easy for you to print out and put in your menu binder. But now Google has messed… Read More »
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VI. "Bland Diet"
{I first published this as a Google document, mainly because I wasn’t going to have any pictures to go with it, and you know I like posts to have pictures. My thought was that this should be something easy for you to print out and put in your menu binder. But now Google has messed… Read More »
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V: Save a Step!
{I first published this as a Google document, mainly because I wasn’t going to have any pictures to go with it, and you know I like posts to have pictures. My thought was that this should be something easy for you to print out and put in your menu binder. But now Google has messed… Read More »
