We’ve been working on a home DIY project to paint our old, dated kitchen cabinets a bright new shade of Daisy Dew, courtesy of Dutch Boy Refresh Paint. Here are the before and after photos for our DIY painting project.

Getting your kids involved in the kitchen is a great way to spend quality time with them while teaching them valuable life lessons. When you are in the kitchen you use math, science, and more. It’s a great classroom! There is so much you can teach while simply baking cookies together.

You can start using feng shui tips for your home today by just considering a few simple adjustments.

I’ve been a mommy blogger for Oscar Mayer for a while, and working with them just keeps getting better and better. Oscar Mayer is sending me to their test kitchens in Madison, Wisconsin! That’s right, they are flying me to tour the Oscar Mayer Kitchens in honor of the launch of four new flavors of Deli Fresh meats.

From the most commonplace household item to the truly bizarre, here are 22 unusual things to wash in the dishwasher:

Many times, the only choices for bananas at your grocery store are bright green, hard bananas that were clearly not ripe yet when they were picked.  There is an easy way to fix this! We’ll teach you how to ripen green bananas that takes minimal effort and you don’t have to spend any money on [...]

Valuable energy (and dollars spent on utilities) can be wasted by using your oven improperly.  Even energy efficient models of appliances are designed to be efficient only when used correctly.
Kitchen Tip:  Use Your Oven’s Peep Hole!
Exterior doors on homes and apartments have peep holes for a very good reason – so you can see what’s [...]

Kitchen Tip: Don’t Let Your Produce Spoil!
It’s always a wonderful treat to find fresh produce on sale and stock up on the great find!  However, how often does that produce start to spoil and mold before it can be eaten?  A study by the University of Arizona in concert with the United States Department of [...]

Spills and drizzles on the edges of a muffin pan will burn, turn black, smoke and smell bad while baking.  To top it off, baked on burnt batter is hard to clean and often leads to scraping off by hand or soaking.  Avoid the mess altogether and make cupcake and muffin baking clean and easy, [...]

Kitchen Tip: Music Stand for a Cookbook Holder
Have you ever wished you had a stand in the kitchen to hold your cookbook upright, just where you need it? Putting your cookbooks on the counter gets them dirty and in the way of your food preparation. This tip comes from a wonderful invention of my husband. [...]