Photo Credit Naomi has been after me to make some Homemade Lemonade, so this morning I did a Google search and found this recipe on AllRecipes.com. It received 5 stars, and was indeed a winner. Try it, it’s delicious! “Best Lemonade Ever” Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups sugar 1 1/2 cups lemon juice 8 cups water […]
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Celebrating Easter Traditions
April 15th, 2014 
Jessica When I was growing up in Maryland, Easter traditions included dyeing hard-boiled eggs, Easter baskets, Easter egg hunts at my grandparents’ house, eating my Grandmom’s Chocolate & Butter Cream Easter Eggs, Easter clothing, family photos (usually in front of a giant yellow forsythia bush), and a big meal at my grandparents’ house. Here in California, […]
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Comments Off on Celebrating Easter TraditionsWhat We Did Right When We Went $238,000 In Debt
April 11th, 2014 Jessica I talk a lot about all the things Brad and I did wrong prior to reading Dave Ramsey and Crystal Paine in 2010, but I don’t talk a lot about all of the things we were doing right during those first four years of our marriage. Despite the fact that we entered our first year […]
7 Ways to Save Money on Landscaping
March 31st, 2014 Jessica With the advent of spring, our family has been spending a lot of time outside in the yard. This is our third spring in this home, so it’s very satisfying to see all of our efforts from the previous years paying off. Trees, bushes, and bulbs are blooming in the right places, and our lawn […]
How to Save Time & Money Packing Lunches
March 17th, 2014 Jessica As a stay-at-home Mom to three children who are also still at home, it may surprise you that I’m talking about packing lunches today. Well, this month as I learned how to use Google Calendar for the first time, I again became aware of how so much time in my day is spent on meals. […]
10 Tips from 2 Amateur Gardeners
March 12th, 2014 Jessica Brad and I both come from gardening families. Both of our mothers grow flowers, and both of our fathers have a vegetable garden. Our grandfathers also had vegetable gardens, and we grew up seeing our relatives tending their little backyard plots. Yet when Brad and I moved to Northern California, we knew very little about […]
Baking Libby’s Famous Pumpkin Pie with Homemade Pumpkin Puree
March 10th, 2014 Jessica Last year we had a bumper crop of pumpkins grow from our compost garden. As a result, I cook a lot of pumpkin recipes for my family. Surprisingly though, I had never tried cooking pumpkin pie. I guess I thought that pumpkin puree from backyard pumpkins might prove inferior to canned pumpkin when baking. However, […]
Posted in Recipe Index Comments Off on Baking Libby’s Famous Pumpkin Pie with Homemade Pumpkin PureeA Pumpkin Story
November 15th, 2013 Jessica Once upon a time a young wife bought two pumpkins, one for a Halloween costume, and the other to cook. A Frightfully Frugal Halloween How to Cook a Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin One year later, her parents decided to buy her three very large pumpkins from the Pumpkin Patch. Most of those pumpkins ended up on the […]
The Abundant Wife’s Recipe Index
November 11th, 2013 Jessica In order to make it easier for you to locate recipes on The Abundant Wife, I’ve created this Recipe Index! Many of my recipes come from the Simply in Season Cook Book or Supercook.com, but many also come from family, friends, or the Internet. Bon Appetit! Preparing Food Homemade Taco Seasoning How to Cook a […]
All Things Pumpkin
October 31st, 2013 Jessica Yesterday our family took our annual trip to the Pumpkin Farm (which has free admission!) where we enjoyed a petting zoo, hay bales, trampolines, slides, climbing, tractors, trains, and of course…pumpkins. As you can tell, the kids had a great time. Naomi had SUCH a great time that she cried when it was time to […]
