Need a quick and easy dinner this evening? Check out this yummy shrimp scampi that you can get on the table in just 30 minutes! Enjoy! Prep time: 15 minutes Cook time: 15 minutes Serves: 4-6 Ingredients: 1 16-oz. box spaghetti 2 T. …
Helping Your Potager GROW UP!
Over the last couple days we've been talking about how to create a specialized culinary garden or potager. You can see the first two entries in this series here: Picking the Perfect Spot for Your Potager and Picking the Perfect Plants for Your …
Picking Plants for Your Potager
Yesterday, we talked about why you might want to create a secondary (or primary, if need be) culinary garden known as a potager. Today, let's take a closer look at how to choose the right plants for this special garden. One of the main benefits …
7 Interior Design Tips for Dramatic Impact
10 years ago, I interviewed Interior Designer Robin Brechbuler (pictured left) when one of her whole house design projects was featured on the cover of Welcome Home Magazine. During that interview, Robin shared the following 7 interior design …
Fun and Creative Garden Toad House Ideas
Did you know there are at least 10,000 GREAT reasons to invite toads into your yard and garden this summer? That's right! According to the USDA, just one adult toad will eat 10,000 pesky insects in a single summer. Not only that, these efficient …
4 Tips for Enhancing Your Outdoor Living Space
Our lives have been all about home renovations over the last year or so. Having designed and built two houses from the ground up before venturing into this project… I can say first hand that remodeling an existing home (especially one as trashed as …
Caring For Your Cast Iron Cookware
The one piece of cookware I find myself reaching for over and over again is my heavy-duty 15" cast iron skillet. (affiliate link) Without question, it meets my personal trifecta for the perfect kitchen tool: it's durable, versatile and economical. …
8 Practical Cleaning Hacks You’ve Got to Try
Crazy how time flies, isn't it? I pulled today's article out of my own archives - from the Spring 2004 issue of Welcome Home Magazine. (This was a quarterly glossy print magazine I used to publish). Enjoy! ;) Bathroom Cleaning Tips Tidy Toilet …
Look, Ma! No Chemicals! Homemade Taco Seasoning
I almost wish I never started reading food labels. Back then, I didn't realize Aunt Jemima isn't really maple syrup and Ramen noodles aren't actually a food group. Now, I sometimes wonder if there is some high-level conspiracy between big …