Life, Family, and Home - Simplified & Sweetened
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In the winter time, I love my soups, casseroles, and comfort foods, but I love the opportunity that spring time brings to freshen up our menu! We get to embrace fresh ingredients, eat a little lighter, and enjoy new things. Today I’m sharing tips on how you can join me and freshen up your menu this spring, and I’ve got a quick and easy recipe for fresh Ranch Pizza! [Read more…]
Greetings everyone! Thanks for stopping by for another edition of Friday Favorites. This week I’ve got some great looking St. Patrick’s Day goodies to share with you! Hope you enjoy!
I also have a party update for you. This is the last week that we will have just 6 party hostesses. Unfortunately, Amanda from The Chunky Chef is no longer able to host. She has been a great hostess; I’ve really enjoyed working with her, and she will be missed. Please continue to keep up with her blog, as she shares some amazing recipes!
Christine from MustLoveHome will still be with us! Yay! And we have 4 additional co-hostesses to add to our roster! They are Jennifer from A Heart Full of Love, Bonnie from Our Secondhand House, Gloria from Homemade and Yummy, and Dawn from LeroyLime. These lovely ladies have fantastic blogs, and I know they will bring a lot to the party! [Read more…]
Today’s post is brought to you by Arnold® bread. The opinions are my own.
Today we’re talking lunch! When it comes to lunch time, there’s nothing simpler than making sandwiches!
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Hello friends! Welcome to this week’s Friday Favorites party! Before we get to this week’s features, I want to thank everyone who applied to be a Friday Favorites Hostess! I’ve gone over all of the applicants and will soon be contacting those who were chosen. Once everyone is confirmed, I’ll make an official announcement here.
Now as for this week we have some really fun (and tasty looking) desserts featured, which I know you’ll want to check out!
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In recently weeks, I’ve been enjoying a lot of comfort food with my family, including a few batches of soup! I love soup, because it is a great way to get a good mix of protein, veggies, and often carbs in one meal. Soups are also easy to make, generally speaking. And soups go a long way! You can use them to feed a large group, have a leftover meal (or meals), share with a sick friend, neighbor or family member, or you can freeze leftovers for a later time.
A couple of weeks ago I made up a batch of Taco Soup. If you like chili, it’s pretty much very similar to chili, except that you use taco powder and ranching seasoning mix instead of chili powder. The recipe I had actually called for a lot more things that what I used. For example, it had 2 cans of green chilis and an additional can of tomatoes. Since I didn’t use these ingredients, it made the soup very chunky like a stew, so I decided to add some broth to mix!
I just so happened to have some chicken broth on hand, so that is what I used. I know the soup contains beef, but I figured chicken broth is good in everything, so why not try it? Of course, it turned out great. The soup tasted good, and it had a great consistency. I think two cups of water would have worked just as well, and beef broth is another potential option that I’d try to you are unsure about using the chicken broth. But I personally recommend it!
Hope you enjoy this recipe! And if you like, please check out my Salsa Chili!
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Do you love soup as much as me? I’d love to hear what your favorite soup, stew, or chili recipe is!
Today you are in for a treat…literally! With the winter season in full swing and Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it is the perfect time to have a Hot Chocolate Party! Hot Chocolate is a delicious winter time drink, and thus, it is the perfect menu item to put at the centerpiece of a winter gathering for kids or adults. Today I’m going to show you some simple ideas and tips for putting together a fun and sweet hot chocolate party! [Read more…]
Happy Friday! And welcome to a very special edition of our Friday Favorites party! Recently Friday Favorites had its 300th linky party! To celebrate, the hostesses of Friday Favorites are partnering this week with Pavilion to bring you guys an awesome giveaway with 2 prizes! We’d especially love it if you do the first couple of entries, which are linking up a post to the party and sharing this party and giveaway with your friends and followers! But there are other entry options as well. Prize details and the entry form can be found at the end of this post, right after the linky!
But before we get to our giveaway, we have some yummy features! This week I have Raspberry Recipes to share! These would be perfect for any upcoming Valentine’s Day plans you may have, and they’re also great for everyday eating! Hope you enjoy. [Read more…]
Greetings! Welcome to Friday Favorites! I’m very excited to roll out our first round of Valentine’s Day features for the year! So fun!
But before I get to that I have one quick announcement. A few week’s ago I announced that we’d have a Friday Favorites giveaway coming up. The giveaway is celebrating our 300th week of partying. I chose not to do the giveaway on week 300 because of the holidays falling on the same weeks…anyway, I will be moving forward with a giveaway next week!
We will have two great prizes from Pavilion, and you will be able to enter on any of the host blogs. All you have to do is link up a post! Additionally we’ll have other entries for sharing the linky party & giveaway, as well as entries for being a follower! So be sure and come by next week, so you don’t miss out on the fantastic prizes! [Read more…]
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The other day I talked about the importance of scheduling and planning your day. For those of you who missed it, here’s a quick recap. I emphasized the importance of setting daily goals and dividing those up in to a set of morning goals and a set of afternoon goals with a lunch in between. By setting your day up in this manner, you’ll be able to focus on a short list of immediate goals, which means you’ll be less likely to get overwhelmed by everything you need to do. You’ll also feel a great sense of accomplishment once that morning list of goals is complete, and dividing your day up ensures that you schedule yourself a much-needed lunch time!
Whether you’re a stay-at-home mom, a mom working from home, or a mom working outside the home, lunch is a key part of the day! And yet, so many people skip it! (Often this includes myself, but I’m working to change that!) [Read more…]
Happy New Year! And welcome to our last party of 2015 and our first party of 2016. Woohoo! In honor of the new year, today I’ve got some foods that are perfect for your New Year’s celebrations!
But first I have a few thoughts on the new year and what’s to come. First off, I want to say thanks to everyone who’s linked up here at any time during 2015. Whether you’ve come by each week or just a time or two, your visits are much appreciated!
Secondly, although I’m proud of the work I did on my blog in 2015, and I feel I accomplished a lot, I have to admit that I feel like I slacked a bit on parties this year. My husband was in the hospital last spring, and I had to help him in his recovery time. And then we also had a number of household projects to tackle and other things that came up. Long story-short, even thought I managed to get a party post up each week, I felt like some of them were just “thrown together” and I didn’t get to visit you guys and comment nearly as much as I would like. BUT I promise I will be getting back on track with that in the new year, as well as some other things that I feel I’ve “slacked on.”
Now in honor of me “not slacking” I am planning some posts for January, which will be on setting goals and getting things done in the new year. In fact, my words for 2016 are “simplify” and “focus,” which I will be posting about this weekend. So you can expect to see a lot of posts on my blog this year that revolve around these two things, especially “simplify” because simplicity is at the heart of my blog, hence the name “SIMPLY Sweet Home.” So if you love simple solutions or feel you just want to get back to the basics of life and homemaking, please join me here in 2016. And as always, I invite you to subscribe to my feeds and allow along on all my social media pages!
And last but not least, you can expect to see a bigger and better party this year! Soon I will be posting a call for new party hostesses, and anyone who’s interested in being a Friday Favorites host will be welcome to apply. And I’m also doing a little brainstorming with the current hostesses to see what we can do to make the party better. If you have any ideas for me, or if you may be interested in being a hostess, feel free to email me. Cheers! [Read more…]
