There have been so many tomatoes turning red on my tomato vines the past couple of weeks, I’ve been roasting tomatoes like crazy. If you’ve always wanted to know how to roast tomatoes, it’s super easy and there’s no blanching, scooping out of seeds or food waste. Once you’ve roasted tomatoes, you can make… Continue reading How to Roast Tomatoes
Fed Up with Frenzy Book Review and Giveaway
I have a special treat for Go Gingham readers today – a giveaway for a newly released book by author Susan (“Suz”) Sachs Lipman. The book is "Fed Up with Frenzy," and will surely be dogged-eared and marked-up by parents everywhere who are looking for ways to slow down and reconnect with their families. Suz… Continue reading Fed Up with Frenzy Book Review and Giveaway
Weekly Meal Plan
Whenever we have dinner at our friend's house, Chris and Laura, I know it’s going to be good. Last year, they had us over for dinner and served the most wonderful beef brisket and chocolate cake. There were other dishes served but these were the most memorable. My husband loves to eat meat and would… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Frugal and Green Living
I'm always looking for the sweet spot where green and frugal living come together. That’s where good for the environment equals good for my wallet, too. These are some things I do that save my family money and help lower the cost to the environment. I’m saying “me” and “I” here but really it’s “we”… Continue reading Frugal and Green Living
How to Install an Inside Laundry Line
Since now you know I’m lazy when it comes to drying laundry outside and how I picked up the idea of inside laundry line from a previous home exchange our family did, I want to show you how easy it is to install an inside laundry line in your home. Most hardware stores, big and… Continue reading How to Install an Inside Laundry Line
Weekly Meal Plan
My sweet sister, Mary, and her new husband, Weston, visited us this past weekend. My brother-in-law had a seminar in town so they both traveled from Anchorage, where they live and stayed with us. On Sunday night, instead of my son cooking his weekly meal, the newly-weds took our family out to dinner at the… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
My Great-Grandmother’s Recipes
I inherited something recently that is very precious: this little notebook. It’s filled with recipes from the kitchen of my maternal great-grandmother, Clara E. Walters. Here’s a picture of her, at age 20, back in 1906. She was an original – for many reasons. I love how she wrote down recipes on the backs of… Continue reading My Great-Grandmother’s Recipes
Why I Use an Inside Laundry Line
I have a confession to make. I don’t hang my laundry up to dry outside because it’s too much work and I’m lazy when it comes to laundry. To go from my laundry area in our basement to the backyard, I have to unlock the door, carry the collapsing laundry line outside, set it up,… Continue reading Why I Use an Inside Laundry Line
How to Make a Reusable Mop Cover
There’s only one area of life I want to make easier for my teenagers and that’s when it comes to chores. I want chores to be simplified so that they can finish them and then do more chores! “You’re learning life skills,” is what I remind them often and then I add, “It’s my job… Continue reading How to Make a Reusable Mop Cover
Weekly Meal Plan
This week's meal plan was somewhat mixed up and switched around. I heard lots of ideas from my kids about changing meals and swapping lunches for dinners. I think they were suffering from end of summer, going back to school soon trauma. We were supposed to have leftover shrimp scampi for dinner on Monday but… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
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