Because retrospectives and recipe roundups are the topic du jour, let's take a look back at the top 25 recipes of 2016! These are the recipes featured on Mashup Mom over the past year that I have made (or will make) again and again. What are some of your own favorite recipes from the past year? …
Maybe we're just getting older over here... but my idea of a good time on New Year's Eve pretty much revolves around enjoying these gigantic steaks MashupDad picked up at Costco, while sitting in front of Netflix with the kids. Who's doing something similar tonight? Have you watched anything good lately? We also had some …
Work at Home Saturday generally features your stories of working at home and the different ways you bring in income on the side. This week, however, we'll talk about how to monetize a blog! Since Mashup Mom is shifting focus in the New Year, a couple of you have floated the idea of starting your own …
Welcome back to Make It or Buy It! Up today: Salad dressing. I'm trying to eat less sugar in the New Year (more on that later...), so have been starting to pay more attention to the crazy amount of added sugars in processed foods. I don't have a lot of salad dressing in my house …
Here's your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 1/1/17: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday! Hope you find it useful. ALDI will be closed on New Year's Day. *** Subscribe to the weekly ALDI meal plans here! Note: I try not to repeat the same recipe here …
I've always been an unrepentant reader, reading early, quickly, and indiscriminately: Books, magazines, cereal boxes, road signs, encyclopedia entries, restaurant menus -- anything that could be read, I read it. One of my mom's favorite stories to tell of a much younger Rachel is of our weekly trips to the public library, after which I'd …