31 days of writing on the same general topic. 31 days of Kitchen Inspiration. I loved it. I hope you did too. Celebration Time! Grab a bag and munch along with me…:) Crispy Chocolate Popcorn with peanuts.  Mmmmm… Thank you all for your commnts and visits during my 31 Days of Kitchen Inspiration series.  I loved everyone of them. They made it all the more fun. ****************************************************************************** To finish up this series I wanted to talk a little about Hospitality. May I encourage you to reach out to those around you – co-workers, friends, neighbors or ones that go to your church?  Share a little of your own kitchen inspiration…

31 Days of Kitchen Inspiration

Always looking out for 100% fruit juice drinks that are carbonated, my hubby found one at Costco the other day made by… It’s an Italian sparkling fruit drink with ingredients like carbonated water, blood orange juice and black carrot juice.  Sounds delicious, doesn’t it? Apparently Audrey thinks so, too.  The other day she was wanting some but I told her no, that we were only going to open for special times.  Then in a very whiney voice she said, “IIII waaaant some blooood juice.”  sniffle, sniffle I broke out in laughter at that.  Oh, dear.  What kind of child am I raising?  She sounds a little blood thirsty.  Eeek!      

This series of Fun Ways to Dine has been a lot harder to put together than I would have imagined.  I thought of fun and interesting ways to dine but when I would go online to find a picture, I had difficulties. Don’t these places sound fun to have a meal in? snow cave tree-house teepee indoor tent (that the kids make) hayloft Garden Parties Well since I couldn’t find any photo material on any of the above ideas, I decided to go with garden parties – cultivated garden parties in the backyard and garden parties in the wild.  Hey, I live in Arizona, so cultivated garden parties aren’t too…

Now this is not the kind of mystery dinner where you have to find out “Who done it.”  This is a mystery dinner in that you don’t know what food you will be having for your evening meal. I went to one of these once with our homeschool group and thought it so much fun. So here’s what you do. Plan Your Mystery Dinner Decide on the food.  It would probably be wise to choose food you know the kids will like otherwise they may not want to eat at all.  I can’t stand picky eaters but it’s a fact of life and if you do it with kids other than you…