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Tammy's Recipes - Everyday Kitchen Inspiration
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Everyday cooking inspiration! Tammy's Recipes is a Christian website aimed at edifying and assisting chefs with wholesome meal suggestions. Every meal is tested by us and our chefs, rated, and has pictures to help you determine if it is the right meal for you! We hope you enjoy your visit here. Feel free to sign up for our RSS feed, vote in polls, and join our community!
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Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Quick thawing or quick cooling tip

When you want to thaw something more quickly without a microwave or warm water (warm water isnt recommended for meats), here is another way. Place the frozen item on something that will absorb the co...

2 days ago

11 Tips for Kids in the Kitchen Without Losing Your Sanity (Eat Well, Spend Less)

Custom drawing of my 3 oldest kitchen helpers I spend a lot of my day in the kitchen (not just cooking, though; we do school there too) and I have 5 children. Theres always something to be done, and ...

24 may 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Paper funnel to the rescue!

Eliyahu (age 6) helped me make some homemade instant oatmeal packets. I dont have a big food processor, just this little mini chopper that attaches to my immersion blender. It works fine but only hol...

22 may 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Cleaning condiment lids

With little hands using our condiment bottles, they can get kinda messy. I usually wipe the tops before putting them away, but now that my kids are old enough to put things away for me, the cleaning ...

15 may 12

Mothers Day Giveaway Winner

My mom with a big bowl of kale from her garden last Spring! Thank you all so much for the beautiful comments on my Mothers Day giveaway! Reading them brought tears to my eyes. My mom is a hard workin...

11 may 12

Mothers Day Giveaway from More Than Alive! (2 days only)

Happy Mothers Day! More Than Alive put together a Mothers Day giveaway package for one lucky reader here! I was super excited when they emailed and asked to send me a gift packet and offer a giveaway...

09 may 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Re-use wooden grilling planks

Did you know that wooden grilling planks can be re-used? Well, they can! We soak ours for at least 2 hours, leaving them quite saturated. Cedar Plank Grilled Salmon After grilling fish (usually salmo...

08 may 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Tip for healthy snacking + snack ideas

I love snacks! But more importantly, I get hungry a lot and need to eat snacks between meals. As a breastfeeding mom, Im even more hungry than "normal". But I cant let my eating habits go out...

01 may 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Make-shift whisk

I use whisks a lot when cooking or baking! Theyre perfect for beating eggs, sauces, batters, or combining dry ingredients. When my other whisks are dirty, I pull out my makeshift whisks: Tip: Use bea...

24 apr 12

Foraging for Stinging Nettles

I took this little guy out to the back yard last week. It was a beautiful sunny day, just barely warm enough to go swearshirt-free. Sweatshirt-free is never a guarantee here, even in the middle of su...

20 apr 12

Eat Well, Spend Less: One year later

Its been a whole year since the Eat Well, Spend Less series began! This month, were writing about the changes in our grocery budgets and eating habits through the past year. For my family, the past y...

18 apr 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: A soft resting place for fragile fruit

I use this tip mostly for bananas, but its good for any ripening fruit that tends to bruise easily, like pears, peaches, etc. Place a piece of cardboard, bubble wrap, or foam under the fruit (or bag ...

17 apr 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Cutting greens with less mess

When I need to chop some greens, like spinach or kale to put in soup, this helps contain the mess: Split the bag open and chop on the bag. If Im chopping a lot of greens, I may do this in two batches...

10 apr 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: How to make your food look as good as it tastes!

When I started cooking regularly (which was when I got married 8 years ago), I was a no-nonsense cook. Garnish? Bah! Who needs it?! Taste is all that matters, right? :) Joshua, however, loves to make...

03 apr 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Hosted at Armstrong Family Fare this week

Im taking today off from hosting Kitchen Tip Tuesdays. Would you believe we have more doctor appointments and an outpatient surgery scheduled this week?! (Im not the one having surgery.) At any rate,...

27 mar 12

Eat Well, Spend Less: Pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond

Last week, the the Eat Well, Spend Less team was blogging about babies and food! Kitchen Planning When You Are Pregnant -- Amy writes about overcoming pregnancy tiredness and aversions, with simple t...

26 mar 12

A No-Work Kitchen After Baby Arrives (Eat Well, Spend Less)

This months Eat Well, Spend Less topic is all about BABIES! Okay, babies and food. ;) In the past few weeks, Aimee, Carrie, and I have all given birth to baby girls! The rest of the team decided to h...

22 mar 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Temporary spoon rest

I dont own a spoon rest. (Do you?) For some reason, spoon rests seem cluttery and annoying to me. I usually just put spoons on the (clean!) counter when cooking and wipe the counter when Im done. Bef...

20 mar 12

The Birth of Channah Shalom

I woke up at 5:30am, and felt the dampness on my skirt. I could feel water leaking and as I headed to the bathroom, I mentally calculated... just barely 36 weeks. I knew it wasnt time for my baby to ...

18 mar 12

Baby Stuff: Channah Shalom

Ruth (4) holding Channah (2 weeks) Its nap time / quiet time at our house right now... well see how much typing I get done before Channah wakes! :) At 2 1/2 weeks old, Channah is probably my most con...

14 mar 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Washing and drying rubber spatulas

I know I mentioned a family update (and more baby pictures!) last week, but Im totally guilty of just lounging on the couch and doing a bunch of baby-holding. :D So this week, I will. I WILL turn on ...

13 mar 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Tuna Can Comparisons (and a tuna salad substitution tip)

Ive always wondered which kind of canned tuna I should be purchasing. Chunk Light tuna is the cheapest per can, but it never seems as meaty as the more expensive ones. When we were first married 10 y...

06 mar 12

Our little surprise...

Just when I thought life couldnt get any crazier! Channah Shalom was born this weekend, weighing 6 lbs. 5 oz., our smallest (and by far, earliest!) baby and with the longest labor (but thankfully not...

01 mar 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Hosted At Stacy Makes Cents This Week

This week, Stacy at Stacey Makes Cents, is hosting Kitchen Tip Tuesdays for me. Head over there to add your Kitchen Tips and see what others have shared! Thanks, Joshua ;)

28 feb 12

5 Ways to Make Food Prep Fun (Eat Well, Spend Less)

Greek Spinach Orzo Salad recipe I think I breathe a sigh of relief when dinner is finally served every evening. Ive become more and more of a "morning person" and making and serving dinner is...

22 feb 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Hosted at Armstrong Family Fare this week

My friend, fellow food blogger, and cousin (!) Willa will be hosting Kitchen Tip Tuesdays this week at her blog, Armstrong Family Fare. Check out Willas post with 6 menu planning tips, and add your o...

21 feb 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: Thicker homemade yogurt, and my faster slow-cooker homemade yogurt method

I know I said I was giving up on making homemade yogurt after all my tries had produced less-than-stellar results... but a friend shared a jar of her really perfect homemade yogurt with me a few mont...

14 feb 12

Kitchen Tip Tuesdays: 10 tips for organizing a chest freezer

Im curious as to how you keep your chest freezer organized. Ive been trying to stretch my grocery trips to once every 12-14 days, and Im happy with it so far, but my freezer is a wreck! I have a runn...

07 feb 12

Your questions answered: TV, coupons, gardening, FoodSaver bags... plus a family update!

Ive got a bunch of questions to answer, plus its been way too long since Ive done a real family update-type of post! So, here is all of that... plus the first pregnancy picture of myself with #5 (tha...

03 feb 12

Freezer meals, Costco trip, and pantry challenge (final update for January, 2012)

Ive really focused on stocking my freezer with homemade freezer meals during the month of January, and our freezer is pretty packed! I organized everything yesterday and took this picture of the meal...

01 feb 12

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