Bree Hester

I sometimes get stuck in a rut when it comes to dinner. I don’t really make the same things over and over, but I do occasionally lack inspiration. How many ways can I make tacos? One afternoon, I needed to feed my family dinner and I found myself...

It never fails that when my children and I are ready to dye Easter eggs, I always have to look up how to properly hard boil an egg. It is the one time a year that I do it, and I can never seem to remember the best method to get a perfectly...

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to go to the Sargento Cheese Headquarters in Plymouth, Wisconsin. Cheese is a pretty big part of my life and Sargento is a company that I love. I was thrilled to be asked to spend the year being a flavor correspondent discovering the...

1. I had some Jameson caramel sauce leftover from my Guiness Irish Cream Cupcakes. I could not part with it, and was having friends over for dinner (and didn’t feel like baking anything) so I made the coffee nut crisp from the Gourmet recipe that the sauce came from....

For the first time in many, many years, we have family close by. Close enough to have an emergency contact for our children’s school forms and Sunday dinners. Close enough to have relatives at soccer games and a full house to share holidays with. When you go many years without those things, you...

Hello Monday. I don’t know about you, but this weekend was just about perfect. The windows were open, we were outside playing, and it feels like spring is near. I hope that it was just as beautiful where you live. Today I am over at The Creative Mama sharing a super...

I took this picture on Wednesday during what they have coined “The Snowquester”here in DC. One hour after this picture was taken, the snow was gone and all we had left were wet streets and some bored kids that were expecting to make an afternoon snowman. I really love a snow day, even...

I am a big fan of the podcast. I love to listen to them while I am kitchen. I feel like someone is hanging out with me and I always learn something new. I really love the Simple Mom podcast. I learn a lot about running a blog business, motherhood, and...

It is no secret that I love to cook. I really do. It relaxes me, makes me happy, and I really enjoy making meals for people that I love. What I don’t love is the getting-dinner-on-the-table-every-night struggle. You know what I mean – the cooking that goes on during a busy week when...

When I think of our time living in California, I always think about the citrus fruits in winter. Our neighbors had a lemon tree and it was always full of big, juicy, lemons this time of year. All I had to do was go outside and pick one when I needed a lemon....