Last week, I showed you how to make your own Golden Milk also known as Turmeric Tea; this week, I want to show you how to make your own 4-ingredient, 5-minute Homemade Golden Milk Spice Mix to make it even easier to enjoy this warm, healthy, antioxidant, immune boosting tea! Once you make your spice…
Hostess Gifts
Gift Ideas for the Entertainer
These are the perfect Gift ideas for the Entertainer in your life, with a variety of price points, encompassing many styles! I love setting a pretty table, drink station or hosting a dinner. It brings me great joy to set a pretty table and my desire is for my friends and family to enjoy it…
Homemade Bourbon Vanilla Extract Recipe
Homemade Bourbon Vanilla Extract Recipe | Made with real bourbon whiskey, this is a fun (and easy) made at home holiday gift idea for your friends, co-workers, teachers and family. As we fall into autumn (get what I did there?!), we start thinking about easy gifts from the kitchen and Homemade Bourbon Vanilla extract is…
Copycat Starbucks Passion Tea Lemonade
Copycat Starbucks Passion Tea Lemonade is so refreshing, but today I’m showing you how to make one at home for a fraction of the cost. It’s one of my favorite no to low calorie drinks, especially in the Spring and Summer! COPYCAT STARBUCKS PASSION TEA LEMONADE JOIN THE FRESH COOKY ON PINTEREST Long ago I…
Easy Homemade Blender Salsa
This Easy Homemade Blender Salsa recipe is quick and easy and comes together in minutes! A restaurant style salsa that is fresh, flavorful and healthy. Made with fire roasted tomatoes it’s so much better than store-bought salsa! It’s fast and easy to make in your blender or food processor! EASY HOMEMADE BLENDER SALSA I am…
How to Package Cookie Dough for Gift Giving
Cookie Dough as a GIFT? YES! It’s one of my very favorite things to gift someone. A new mom, a sick friend, after a surgery, teacher, neighbor or co-worker gift, a Christmas surprise, your imagination is your only limit. I’ll show you through simple step-by-step instructions how to package cookie dough for gifting! Start off…
Homemade Vanilla Extract & Free Printable Labels
This DIY Homemade Vanilla Extract is so stinkin’ easy to make and is full-bodied with rich, sweet, earthy notes. There’s no better time to start your own Homemade Vanilla Extract than this week! Just like a fine wine, it needs time to age and brew; developing it’s rich, intense flavor we’ve all grown to love,…
Fall Simmering Spices (Potpourri)
Want your home to smell like fall without toxic air fresheners? This recipe for Fall Simmering Spices or Potpourri is an all-natural, inexpensive and simple way to fill your home with the aroma of fall and Thanksgiving! FALL SIMMERING SPICES JOIN THE FRESH COOKY ON PINTEREST Using produce and herbs you probably already have in…
How to Host a Favorite Things Party
Have you ever hosted a Favorite Things Party?! Oh my goodness are YOU in for a treat, they are so much fun! You know the song right? “Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens….these are a few of my favorite things!” HOW TO HOST A “FAVORITE THINGS” PARTY! A…
Small Bites Cookbook Giveaway
I’m very excited to do my first giveaway! I hope it will be the first of many to come! SMALL BITES: SKEWERS, SLIDERS, AND OTHER PARTY EATS // GIVEAWAY To enter to win this colorful, creative, easy-to-use cookbook (not the stand, sorry) for all sorts of “Small Bites” just answer the following question in the comment section…
Elegant Holiday Ice Cream Sauces
These recipes for Elegant Ice Cream Sauces are perfect for gifting, or gracing your table this holiday season. Rich, creamy, decadent sauces that easily whip up and pour over your favorite ice cream (pie, cake or crisp) is the perfect ending to any holiday gathering. ELEGANT HOLIDAY ICE CREAM SAUCES And I’m not just showing…
Hostess & Neighbor Gift Ideas
Black Friday, I really dislike that name! Why don’t we call it, “Stretch Pants Day” or “Leftover Day” or “Christmas Decorating Day??” HOLIDAY HOSTESS AND NEIGHBOR GIFT IDEAS I do hope you had a most wonderful Thanksgiving day, spent with loved ones, spreading love to others, taking a few moments to express how deeply grateful…
