Cottage pie (shepherd’s pie) is an easy casserole recipe to make with a hearty filling of layered vegetables and seasoned ground beef topped with a glorious high cloud of fluffy mashed potatoes and cheese. This family favorite is a satisfying, comforting main dish that also is a thrifty and nutritious meal idea for using leftover mashed potatoes as well as incorporating extra vegetables you may have in the refrigerator. Therefore, let me share my recipe for delicious pie. *Disclaimer: This post contains referral/affiliate links.  If you buy something at Butcher Box, Beauty Cooks Kisses m ..read more

Photo Courtesy of Pixabay – Lorencosmic22 Eggs are one of the best healthy foods with all the incredible nutrition they offer. In fact, eggs are a complete high-quality protein since they contain all nine essential amino acids, which is important because the body can’t make them on its own to repair itself. Besides being rich in vitamins such as riboflavin, folate and biotin, vitamins D and E, and minerals such as choline and iron, how can we ignore how delicious and needed they are for eating and cooking? For that reason, I want to share some egg hacks for how you can cook perfect hard-boiled ..read more

Photo Courtesy of Pexels – Anna Shvets You can think of the body’s thin layer of connective tissues as the glue that wraps around every organ, bone, nerve, blood vessel, and muscle to hold all our parts together in order to function. Caring for the health of this specialized tissue known as fascia is important for everyone, but especially for women as we age. If I intrigued you, read on to learn why the health of your fascia matters so much. Disclaimer: Some links found on this page might be affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission. As an Am ..read more

Photo Courtesy of Pexels – Andrea Piacquadio Though we may not realize our bad habits that we turn to when anxiety hits because they can be a difficult thing to break. This automatic response that occurs when worry and stress dominate our thoughts such as twisting hair, chewing or licking the lip, overeating, going on a shopping spree, twitching, and talking too fast are just some unhealthy coping mechanisms that need impulse control. Yet, if we are absently doing these bad habits how can we stop them before they continue to ruin the quality of our lives from physical health, beauty to our men ..read more

If you want to taste an extra special sour cream cherry pie set off to perfection with red candied cherries, a subtle influx of cinnamon and vanilla that will melt in your mouth, then this easy recipe is something you must try. One velvety bit of this homemade and delicious cherry cream pie and you’ll fall in love while wanting to savor its smooth and delicious flavor as long as you can before swallowing. Why This is the Best Cream Pie Worth Your Attention To begin with, this pie is so simple to make and hardly takes much time to pull it together. It involves mixing the ingredients before po ..read more

Most households have a bottle of rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol) on hand for disinfecting. However, there are a variety of other uses that it also has that can solve some frustrating household cleaning and beauty tasks better than you might imagine. If you’re curious and want to learn more, here are some of my favorite rubbing alcohol hacks that I found work and also can save you money. Disclaimer: Some links found on this page might be affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. C ..read more

Photo Courtesy of Pexels – Karolina Grabowska Eliminating that urge for something sweet with sugar is hard, especially if you’re a diabetic or trying to lose weight. Sugar free diabetic candy can be a tasty option. Besides the sugar-free candy being a safer sugar choice, it may taste and resemble the same ones made from regular sugar, but the similarity stops there from how they work through the digestive track such as with laxative effects, gas, cramps, bloating, and diarrhea. For this purpose, read on to learn more about the gastrointestinal issues related to this type of candy. Sugar-Free C ..read more

Don’t you hate when you go to the refrigerator and find that your milk has soured? Sour milk usually means that chocolate cake or time to bake my sour milk bread. However, this easy recipe for chocolate cupcakes with sour milk and canola oil is moist, light and utterly chalked full of chocolate. To make this sour milk cupcakes ever more decadent, I add a creamy chocolate frosting. In this post, I’ll share the secret and this no fail recipe for turning out the best batch of homemade chocolate cupcakes that you ever tasted. Baking Tips for the Best Cupcakes Using the oil produces a finer textu ..read more

This Sally Lunn batter bread is very old and one passed on to my mother that her mother inherited from my great-grandmother based on an old Williamsburg recipe. Delicately sweet and moist, this is a light batter bread that requires no kneading and baked in a tube pan. Not quite a cake or yeast bread, the taste is in between on the order of holiday bread such as an Easter paska. Originally, this recipe used butter to keep it so soft and golden. However, I now use canola oil for a healthier bread to keep the “bad” LDL cholesterol from butter’s saturated fats and trans fats down for monitoring c ..read more

Photo Courtesy of Pexels – Monstera Production Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) has a lot going for it with benefits for pain relief, inflammation to addressing beauty needs, crafts to simplifying chores around the home. Epsom salt is also fairly inexpensive and works for a variety of other uses you may not be aware of. In this post, I will share some other wonderful and clever hacks for this common household ingredient that may amaze you. Benefits and Other Uses of Epsom Salt for Health Foot Soak: This can help relieve foot pain, reducing swelling and soften rough skin on the feet. In fact, try ..read more