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How To Make Potpourri – There are several ways to make homemade potpourri. Dry flowers, roses, rose petals… Take the dried flowers keep them natural or add essential oils to add a fragrance to them… I live where it’s hot and dry, so this makes making homemade potpourri for gifts easy. But, even if you don’t live in a hot, dry climate there are easy ways to dry your flowers. I’ve listed a few resources for you below and ways to dry flowers. Affiliate links may be included in the post. By clicking the links for qualifying purchases we earn...

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I grew up with a pretty incredible father and live with one, now, too. When Garth and I started dating at the age of nineteen, potential fatherhood wasn’t one of the qualities I chose him for. In fact, we’ve always driven each other completely crazy — we’re total opposites but equally stubborn — yet we have always been each other’s person, as if there was a contract signed on our hearts and our bodies were required to oblige. We don’t like the same movies or music. He likes sports; I don’t, with a passion that surprises some people. I cook,...

I'm feeling happy lately.I'm starting a new job in mid-July.I'm going back to Singapore for the next two weeks as our winter holidays. It has been more than 2 years since I saw my family.And I baked a good cake.The addition of lemon juice and an extra egg can make this Chocolate Chiffon Swiss Roll Cake EXTRA thicker and fluffier ...without adding baking powder or cream of tartar! YAY!!! It's the cake that we always like!!! Asian Style cottony soft Chocolate Swiss Roll coated with chocolate sprinkles. I have made it extra thick with lemon juice and an extra egg....

Monkey bread is a gooey sweet pull-apart cake made from blobs of brioche dough coated in a buttery, cinnamony caramel sauce. It’s easy as can be to make from scratch in a loaf pan—and fun as heck to tease apart with your hands. Adapted from Jeff Hertzberg | Zoë François | Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day | St. Martin’s Press, 2018 This sticky sweet bread seems to be the creation of a toddler given how the loaf of rich, buttery, caramel-coated blobs of baked dough are a gooey adventure to eat with your hands. (The pull-apart...