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Chances are if the title of this post caught your eye, there are still a few names on your gift list you just haven’t gotten around to shopping for – and now it’s the eve of Christmas Eve.
At this point I strongly advise against heading out of the house to shop, for you [...]
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Enjoying homemade Christmas baking is highlight of the season for many families, but making everything from scratch can be time consuming and a lot of work. So how does you stock your freezer with a delicious assortment of cookies and bars without spending several days in the kitchen? By hosting an old-fashioned holiday cookie exchange!
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Day One of cooking school introduced me to “clean as you go“: the practice of combining cooking and cleaning to help free up valuable work space, eliminate visual mess, and make for manageable post-cooking clean-up.
Since then, I have rigorously embraced the clean as you go motto for all cooking and baking, ensuring that I clean up [...]
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All photos are by Aimee
The following post is written by food columnist Aimée Wimbush-Bourque.
My first attempt at making jam was memorable, for all the right reasons. I was a newlywed, eager to wear the old-fashioned housewife hat, and making my own jam seemed like something I would enjoy, more so than, say sewing curtains or [...]
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All photos are by Aimée.
The following post is written by food columnist Aimée Wimbush-Bourque.
“In the childhood memories of every good cook, there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom.”
-Barbara Costikyan
Ever wonder how your mother or grandmother functioned without all the modern day conveniences and kitchen gadgets that are now available? [...]
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Photo by Jen Yu
The following post is written by food columnist Aimée Wimbush-Bourque.
It’s not yet July and my dessert track record for the past month has been something like this: cobbler, crisp, crisp, fresh fruit cake, cobbler, and crumble.
There’s no question that as soon as the seasonal fresh fruit of summer arrives at the market, [...]
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All photos by Aimee
Written by food columnist Aimée Wimbush-Bourque.
We’re switching up my usual monthly food column today to talk about another subject I am passionate about (which just so happens to be this week’s theme here on Simple Mom): cloth diapers!
When Tsh asked me to expand my repertoire to write about cloth diapers (CDs), I [...]
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