A few years ago, we bought a Holmsund sectional sleeper sofa from IKEA. It’s been a great functional couch for our family, and I love the blue color we chose. However, despite being washable, the cover seemed to attract stains. About a year ago, I bought a cheap cover from Amazon just to cover up the …
One of our favorite summer desserts is strawberry shortcake. Sometimes I just buy the little round pound cakes, but angel food cake is sooooo much better! Unfortunately, it seems that the whole town had the same thought on the 4th, so our one little grocery store was completely out of angel food cake–both baked and …
These are apples from our amazing heirloom apple tree. It gives us an abundance of these big, beautiful apples every year. I can’t believe how great these apples still look in mid-June! When we picked them in October/November, we wrapped them individually in newspaper and stored what we didn’t can/sell right away in the crisper …
I did not get around to doing anything with our mulberries last year, but this year we’ve had plenty of time to pick. Feedback from the family says they prefer jelly to jam, so I decided to try my hand at Mulberry jelly. I just ordered a fruit strainer for my Kitchen Aid that I …
Picking mulberries with my brother and sister is one of my favorite childhood memories. We would head over to my mom’s friend’s house and pick berries until our fingers (and our lips) were stained purple. (Apparently, you can remove the mulberry stains by crushing unripe mulberries!) We are so blessed to live next door to …
