Easy Easter Cookies – When you think of decorating cookies, you may think of Christmas, but you can decorate cookies for any holiday, including Easter!  Easy Easter cookies are fun to make and you can enjoy the process as a family and make extra to decorate for friends and neighbors.  Basically, all you need is your favorite rolled sugar cookie dough, or homemade if you want to make the dough yourself, some Easter shaped cookie cutters like bunnies, baskets, eggs, chicks and flowers and some icing.  It’s a process, but a fun one, and one you can share with your children. [Read more…]

Easy Easter Desserts – Cakes   Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail…  Yes, it’s that time again!  Peter Cottontail will be stopping by your house with candy and colored eggs, family will be coming for dinner and when everyone is full and can’t squeeze in one last bite, they will ask about dessert!  What will you have waiting for them when they ask?  You can spend just as much time in the kitchen making mundane desserts as you can making fun, creative desserts and when everyone “ooohs and aaahs” over your masterpieces, won’t you will feel awesome!  Here are a few easy Easter desserts that won’t take too much of your time during this busy holiday, but will look like you spent all day in the kitchen.  [Read more…]

Best Egg Laying Hens – Rhode Island Reds!  Spring is in the air and with spring comes the Easter holiday.  Easter gets us thinking about eggs and when you think about eggs, maybe you are considering where the eggs you bought at the store may have come from and just how healthy and nutritious they are for your family.  Many homeowners like you and I are considering following the new trend and raising a few chickens in our own backyards.  We will know exactly what our chickens are eating, what goes into the eggs we are eating and we can feel good placing them on the breakfast table for our family.  Easter is a great time to get those cute, fluffy baby chicks and they will be perfect for laying eggs by the fall.  So off we go to find out what kind of baby chicks we would like for our backyard flock and we ask ourselves “What are the best egg laying hens so that I can get the most bang for my buck?”, per say.  If you read my first article on the Ameraucana breed of chicken, you’ll already know they are good egg layers.  I am doing a little research on the top 3 egg layers, so in addition to the Ameraucana, let’s look at the Rhode Island Red.  [Read more…]

Brown Eggs vs. White Eggs – The question often arises in grocery stores and kitchens across the country – Which egg is best for my family?  The classic brown eggs vs. white eggs debate is on!  Is there really a difference?  Is one better than the other?  What makes the egg shell a different color?  Does it all really matter?

The secret is out!  The difference isn’t in the eggs, it’s in the chicken!  [Read more…]