MomCooks Is Now Table for Five Food and Recipes!

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Recipe for a Pumpkin Face Mask

This fun, easy DIY at-home pumpkin mask was just featured in the October issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. Created by beauty guru and parenting expert Erika Katz (www.bondingoverbeauty.com), this mask is full of exfoliating enzymes that brighten the skin so it won’t look too “scary” this fall season.

Erika is a mother of two and [...]

My 18 year old nephew made Thanksgiving dinner!

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Fundraising ideas for non profit organizations

Looking for a fun way to raise money for your non profit organization this summer? Your friends at fasttrackfundraising.com have a great suggestion – online magazine sales! Fasttrack Fundraising gives non profit organizations an easy and convenient way to sell a product without having to hand out catalogs or forms, add up orders, or collect [...]

That’s right, it’s another theme change!

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If you’ve been reading MomCooks for a while, you’ve probably noticed that I get bored with my blog theme really easily. I’m always on the lookout for new themes that fit what I need to have on the page and help me express my personality. This coffee theme is perfect!  I [...]

While You’re Here, Send A Free e-Card!

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Hey MomCooks readers, have you checked out my sidebar? I’ve joined the Jungle Ad Network which gives me a very cool widget called JuiceBoxJungle. Along with watching excellent parenting videos, the widget lets you send an ecard to a friend right from this blog (click around and [...]

It’s MomCooks’ Birthday! Have Some Cake!

On May 04, 2007, I wrote my first post here on MomCooks. I was constantly losing the pieces of paper that our favorite family recipes were written on (I still can’t find the recipe for my husband’s favorite soup), so I thought hey, I could start a blog and put my recipes there.

Two years [...]

Hello from the Nestle Culinary Center!

Yesterday, Nestle flew me to Solon, Ohio to attend a day-long conference and roundtable discussion on the topic of Let’s Fix Dinner. This morning we started out in the Nestle Baking Kitchen meeting with Jenny from VeryBestBaking.com and eating fresh-baked cookies (YUM). Then we moved into their Culinary Center which is like a huge kitchen [...]

It’s a Party! Have some Cake!

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Today I am 42 years old! yay for me! lol

Please enjoy a piece of this delicious cake in my favorite flavor-chocolate with chocolate and more chocolate!(link credit: Hershey’s website)

Now that you’ve had cake, could you do me a favor? Could you leave a comment on this [...]

A Few Days of Meals-and some Great News!

I can’t call this a true Menu Monday post, because our budget is so tight this week that we only purchased groceries for Sunday, today, and tomorrow. Chris will have to go out Wednesday after he gets paid and buy food for the rest of this week.  I won’t be here so I don’t know [...]