This year Jamie and I both turned 30. A big year for us. We have been married for 5 years, now have 3 kids, and a whole lot a chaos in our lives. But we have decided to try and just ride the wave and enjoy this super wild time in our lives. For his […]
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Fresh Pasta Family Night
Fresh pasta, the thing of gods… or people with the luxury of extra time. Which today in an odd turn of events we had. An entire day at home together. Jamie decided to make fresh pasta.
Family Eats
We are so very proud and excited to announce the title and launch date of our cookbook! (Drum roll please…) “Family Eats” A Cultivating Foodies Cookbook, will be available for purchase February 24! We are so excited and can’t wait for you to see it! Check out the “Family Eats” page for more information, […]
Sourdough Doughnuts
I have been messing around with sourdough for the last few months, and just came across an Instagram account called @sourdough_mania that has some of the sexiest sourdough ideas I have ever seen. Little chef and I created a new sourdough starter early this week and I wanted to make something with it on this beautiful […]
Blueberry Dumplings
Last week we asked for some recipe suggestions from all of our blog followers and we had so many fun responses! Because we had so many responses I decided to do more than one of the recipes. Last night I made Blueberry Dumplings. I have to admit it was my first time and I had […]
Coming Soon…
We here at the Cultivating Foodies family have a very exciting announcement! {No, it’s not another baby…} We are writing a cookbook! It will be family based, with recipes you can cook with your family and the whole crew can enjoy. It will feature easy to execute recipes, bright pictures to follow along with […]
Father’s Day
When I was a kid father’s day was always filled with weird homemade cards and gifts and big breakfasts and sitting on dad’s lap laughing and goofing off. I never imagined then how much the holiday would grow into something so much more than that for me. Because now on father’s day I think of […]
Caramels
Every Christmas {yes it’s well in to the new year and everyone’s diets and I’m still talking Christmas.} my family picks names and makes a gift for the name we pick. It’s creative, means a heck of a lot less spending, and there is something so beautiful and special about a hand made gift. We […]
Christmas in Review
It was a holiday season of epic proportions. Little Chef cooked about 14 new dishes, mommy ate more than her fair share, and James was damn near entering a diabetic coma from sugar over consumption. All in all a great success. For Christmas I made little chef a knife and tool roll and we bought […]
10 Ways to up your food game.
I have people ask me all the time how I make such cool things, or create such beautiful dishes. {They also ask how I got so good looking at witty… no actually they don’t but a lady can dream.} So I decided to give you some solid tips to kick your food game up a gear.