Bring a Little Sicilian into Your Kitchen with This Easy Way to Cook Couscous

Sacillion Couscous

photo credit For this Sicilian couscous recipe, you’ll need the following ingredients: 2 1/2 cups couscous 1/2 cup olive oil Salt 1 pinch saffron threads 1 cup calamari, cleaned and cut into rings 1 cup fresh small shrimp, peeled 10 1/2 cups fish stock 2 cloves of garlic, crushed or chopped 1 cup of tomato paste/puree 1 medium-sized onion, finely diced Hot fish [...]

Bulk & Freezer Cooking Ideas {Veggies}

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Having prepared meals on hand for the arrival of a new baby (or other life changes) and be a great tool to reduce stress and help keep your budget in line. Prepping veggies in bulk can make it easy to add nutrition to your day in a hurry. Here are some ideas for bulk prepping [...]

Bulk & Freezer Cooking Ideas {Meat}

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Having prepared meals on hand for the arrival of a new baby (or other life changes) and be a great tool to reduce stress and help keep your budget in line. Meat is the main part of many meals. A couple basic rules will help save you some time and space. Don’t freeze Styrofoam and [...]

Guest Post: The REAL nanny diaries by, Jessica Dukes

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last week i was doing grocery shopping at our local publix, an older man who had probably been retired for ten years but just bagged groceries to either have extra income or a hobby, latched onto me and decided i was going to be his best friend. after bagging for what seemed like forever, something [...]

Co-sleeping is not for everyone. But it is for our family.

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Guest post by my loving and supportive husband, Lilac City Daddy.  My darling wife has been nudging me for a while now to write something for her blog, and I have finally found some time to comply. Two of the subjects suggested by you, my wife’s readers, are co-sleeping and father-child bonding. I have decided to [...]

Caramel Toffee Cake

Caramel Toffee Cake

Hi everyone! I am so glad to be here, thank you Hanan for having me! I love getting a chance to meet some new people. My name is Tanyia, yes I spelled that right, I promise! lol Everyone always asks me that, as if I could not spell my own name! I have a blog [...]

Oven Fries, not just for kids!

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I love French fries, what sane person doesn’t? From what I’m told though, they’re not all that healthy for you. Shocking right? I mean aren’t potatoes a veggie after all? Since I threw out my deep fryer a number of years ago I needed to find a way to make some good French fries that [...]

Are you a craft or foodie blogger? Want to be featured on Lilac City Momma?

Some of my favorite blogs to read are craft blogs and foodie blogs! But of course, I just can’t find the time to post things I make. That’s why I am looking for craft bloggers and foodie bloggers who would like to be featured in a mini series on Lilac City Momma called, “Domestic Diva’s”. [...]

Guest Post Over at The Chatty Momma

So the lovely Tonia over at The Chatty Momma has lovingly allowed me to take up space on her blog for a guest post! Please show her some love and see what my biggest challenge has been from going from one child to two.

Closing of Babyhood & Start of Independence

My 3 year old is about to embark on one of her greatest adventures, preschool. I’m feeling such a swarm of different emotions, because I know it’s just one more step away from needing Mama. I realize somehow, someway she’ll always need me, but it will never be the same as she needed me in [...]

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