This Is Us

  We bought a dehydrator from  Dash  in March of this year and absolutely love it.  It's not very loud, and it works great. Plus right now (August 4, 2023) it's on sale for $39.99! What!! We have dehydrated strawberries, apples, mangos, bananas, and now I can't remember what else.  lol  I will be dehydrating herbs like Rosemary, Oregano, Sage, Thyme, Lemon Balm, and others. You can do jerky and so many other things.

  As you may know my name in Greek means Honey Bee (Melissa in Greek: μέλισσα). So when Dash made a  Honeycomb Mini Waffle Maker  I just had to have it. Lol! We usually use  Kodiak Mixes  for pancakes and waffles because they have a lot of protein in them. Sometimes I will add 1/2 a cup of my  Sourdough Starter  to the mix. It makes them so moist and fluffy! I really enjoy these mini waffle makers, obviously since we have several of them. Lol!

  In November we found this beautiful  Moonstone Orchid  at the grocery store.  It was so pretty and I loved the colors. Well, when it bloomed again it looked like this... I said in  This Post  that there are several different reasons as to why the orchids change color.  After reading everything on the tag, I found out that this company dyed them to be this color.  UGH!!!  Why?  I wanted my orchid to always be this color, not just once.  So, make sure that when/if you go to buy an orchid because of it's color it's not dyed and that is it's true color!

  We eat boxed mac and cheese.  I know a lot of you are like ewww... do you know what's in that?  Homemade mac and cheese is so much better.  I know I've heard it all.  With having five kids and so many different ages, needs, wants, etc. boxed mac and cheese is so much easier.  We like the kraft one, but Winco is our favorite... and bonus, it's cheaper. What I do is cook the noodles as the box directs.  Then I dump them into a strainer and let them sit in the sink.  I then add the butter and milk to the hot pan so the butter can melt and mix with the milk.  I add the noodles back in and mix them around in the butter and milk until they are well coated.  Then I add in the cheese packet and mix.  Doing it this way makes the cheese packet easier to mix in and I don't ever have lumps.