Bacon Wrapped Asparagus Spears are a great spring sideBacon Wrapped Asparagus is one of my favorite spring recipes. Its great as an appetizer or a vegetable side dish. This recipe is quick and easy taking just a few minutes to prep and has a cooking time of 15-20 minutes. I love serving it as an appetizer for a Mother's Day Brunch or a side for Easter … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Bourbon Glazed Spiral Ham
My Favorite Spiral Ham Recipe - Slow Cooker Bourbon Glazed Spiral HamWithout a doubt, my Slow Cooker Bourbon Glazed Spiral Ham Recipe is one of my favorite baked ham recipes. The spiral ham lends itself to being cooked in a slow cooker because when a spiral ham is cooked in a conventional oven it can get very dried out. CrockPot cooking will make the ham incredibly … [Read more...]
Make an easy Easter Egg Tree!
How to Make an easy Easter Egg Tree a family tradition to share with your kids! We can thank the Germans for the tradition of the Easter Egg Tree. They have been decorating trees with colorful eggs for centuries. No one is quite sure about the reasoning behind the Easter Egg Tree or exactly when the tradition started. It may have begun as a secular practice with pagan … [Read more...]
Free Frameable Easter Printables
Frameable Easter printables help get me in the mood for Easter! Today I am working on frameable Easter printables hoping they will get me in the mood for spring and Easter. If I look out the window, thinking Spring and Easter is a stretch. Here in the Maine Northwoods we have lots of snow on the ground and it hasn't started melting yet. I'm talking 6 feet of snow on … [Read more...]
Roasted Asparagus with an Easy Hollandaise Sauce Recipe
Roasted Asparagus - Thank you, Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa!Have you ever roasted asparagus? Growing up my mother and grandmother always boiled vegetables. When you think about it, the water that you drain away after boiling them probably contains a lot of the flavor and nutrients. When I discovered roasting vegetables, from watching Ina Garten of Barefoot … [Read more...]
Easter Egg Trees for your inner “Martha”
Easter egg trees are fun projects for the whole family, but there are times when you want to do something elegant and crafty just for yourself to satisfy your inner "Martha". Making Easter egg trees with the grand-kids was fun but I wanted some inspiration for a grown up tree so I started looking around the web and found some Easter Egg Trees that would be fun to try. To … [Read more...]
Free Printable Easter Subway Art
The search of the morning was for Free Printable Easter Subway Art. I love printable subway art as a way to make subtle changes to my decor for any holiday. It's that kind of detail that really adds to your overall decorating decor. I have about a dozen different frames with mats that I have picked up here and there - dollar store, tag sales. thrift shops, and yard sales. … [Read more...]
Moist Juicy Slow Cooker Ham Recipe
This slow cooker ham recipe is moist and fork tender!This Slow Cooker Ham recipe is my "go-to" recipe when cooking a ham dinner. It is so much better than the traditional oven "baked ham" because it consistently produces a delicious, tender, moist ham that will be an easy focal point for your ham dinner. This ham recipe is delicious and can be adjusted … [Read more...]
12 Easter Egg Trees To Make with your family!
12 Easter Egg Trees you can make with your family! Easter egg trees are a very popular old European tradition. Mostly found in Germany and Austria, they are also found in Czech Republic, Ukraine, Poland, Moravia, and Hungary. The Spring tradition of the Egg Tree is centuries old, as the egg is the ancient symbol of life all over the world. Traditionally eggs are … [Read more...]
Easter Egg Decorating Ideas for you and your Kids – 10 Great Ideas
Looks like the Easter Bunny will be a Snowshoe Hare here in the Maine Northwoods!It has been a crazy winter! And next week is Easter and we still have snow on the ground! Aah, the joys of living in the North Maine Woods. That sure puts a damper on the annual Easter Egg Hunt as even if the warming trend predicted for the next week takes place, we will be smack dab in … [Read more...]