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How to Make Lemongrass Stock, aka What I Want to Drink All Winter

Sarah White December 12, 2017 Cooking / Home and Family Life3 Comments

Lemongrass stock is easy to make and great for soups, but it’s also a lovely drink that might cure what ails you. I have declared this fall and winter to be the season of Soup Wednesday, meaning that once a week (usually on Wednesday) I make some kind of soup. …

Celebrate Chinese New Year with Stir-Fried Noodles and Easy Add-ins

Sarah White January 15, 2016 CookingOne Comment

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #FrozenFromScratch #CollectiveBias One of the fun things about celebrating holidays outside of your culture is getting to try different foods. But as most anyone with a child knows, it can be difficult to …

Notions: Cooking with Kids Edition

Sarah White October 19, 2015 Cooking / Kids / Notions4 Comments

My husband’s birthday was Friday (as I have mentioned), and we celebrated with his family on Saturday, which always means his mom makes pineapple upside down cake. I’ve had the recipe for years but I’ve never actually made it because, well, hers is surely better. But I mentioned that it …

Simple Strawberry Syrup

Sarah White June 10, 2015 CookingLeave a comment

Yesterday was use up the old produce day here at the White House. First, I made banana bread (I have shared that recipe before), then I grabbed the soft strawberries that had been sitting in our fridge for a week and whipped up a quick strawberry syrup. I got this …

Getting Back to Craft

Sarah White September 26, 2014 Art / Crafts / Life3 Comments

While I was working on the book, I was only knitting (and doing some little crafty things with the girl, but nothing too planned). Now that I’ve been done with the book for almost a month, I’m still mostly just knitting. This tells me that I made a savvy career …

Super Simple Bread and Butter Pickles

Sarah White May 9, 2013 CookingLeave a comment

I am not a pickle person. I never have been. I’m not particularly fond of dill, is my main problem. When I was younger, I would make pickles for 4-H, and people said they were good, but I never tried them. Now that I’m a little older, I can tolerate …

Hang on to Summer with Some Barbecue Inspiration

Sarah White October 10, 2012 Cooking3 Comments

I don’t know how it is where you live (though, frankly, I probably do since most of my readers are local), but this has been a completely strange year weatherwise in Arkansas. We went from warmer than we’d like to a few cold days to finally more like what we …