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Stephanie VanPelt

Top Homeschool Projects: My Fun Favorites

It’s 2020. Everyone is doing a lot of staying at home and our kids are driving us insane. And here it is, we’ve decided to go for homeschooling. After 4 months of staying at home, here are my top 10 fun elementary aged homeschool projects. These projects are great home learning activities that you can […]

Prosciutto Quiche with Roasted Brussels Sprouts

This delicious prosciutto quiche all started as nothing more than a quick grab of leftovers in my fridge. It was off-the-hook amazing and now I’ll roast up some Brussels sprouts just to make the quiche. What’s great about quiche though, is that you can easily swap out ingredients based on whatever you have in your […]

Dear Amanda – Greetings from the Beach

Dear Amanda, I saw this rainbow this morning while walking the beach and thought of you. I also miss our travels and our old life. I’m thankful I have this amazing beach basically at my doorstep – I just wish you were here with us! This mad, mad world is just crazy town. Never have […]

Roasted Potato Peels – Easy Appetizer

Have you ever peeled a pile of potatoes and felt guilty for tossing all those potato skins? Although I frequently like to prepare my potatoes with the skin, there are times I just really want a fluffy mashed potato. It was on my quest to reduce food waste that I stumbled upon roasted potato peels. […]

Easy Banana Bread Recipe

Let’s get something straight here: this banana bread recipe is really more of a cake than a bread. But it’s absolutely delicious and so easy that my kids can make it unsupervised. In this time of social distancing and quarantine, we also love banana bread as a comfort food. Because it’s really more of a […]

Dear Amanda….

Life is crazy. I don’t even know where to begin. But we’re all healthy and doing well. My biggest and most exciting news it that I HAVE NEW KNOBS FOR MY STOVETOP. Remember how all the crappy plastic knobs were broken? Yeah, I’ve got these sparkling, new, 100% metal knobs my dad made for me. […]

Creamy Mac & Cheese Comfort Food

I’m just sitting here, in the time of coronavirus, needing some good, old-fashioned comfort food. And when you’re in the middle of a stay at home order, when could be better than some creamy mac and cheese? Maybe with a few veggies thrown in? The recipe all started when my good friend and foodie compatriot […]

Instant Pot Creamy Tomato Chicken

As we live life with a stay at home order, during the time of coronavirus I’m getting both increasingly bored with my own cooking and increasingly creative. I’m struggling with the Middle’s quirky and picky eating habits and trying to throw dinner on the table with ingredients I have on-hand. Today we had a big […]