Recipes
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A Simple Strawberry Jam Recipe with only Three Ingredients!
It’s strawberry season! We picked several pounds of fresh strawberries…and now what? Time to make homemade strawberry jam. This recipe only calls for three ingredients and takes about 20 minutes in total to make. Get ready to enjoy your best peanut butter & jam sandwich ever! via GIPHY Summer 2020 Updated September 2023 Have you seen this episode of Friends? The One with the Jam? A) If you haven’t, stop reading this and go watch it. B) If you have, then you know about Monica’s jam plan. I did not need the plan to get over my man, but it’s always a good idea to make jam! This post may…
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Easy Pasta Dinner Recipe- Green Bean Carbonara
Want an easy dinner that even your pickiest eaters will love? This 30 minute pasta carbonara can’t be beat! This recipe is so simple my kids help make it and it’s an entire meal in only two pans. Originally written in June 2020 This recipe is one of the first to become a Chaos family staple. Now it is the stuff of legends as it is my daughter’s all-time favorite meal. When we make it, we make an entire box of pasta in the hopes of leftovers. Then she eats it for breakfast too! We made it the other night and for the first time she helped with the entire…
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake Tutorial
If you missed my post on M’s quarantine birthday, check it out here. This is the step by step tutorial on how to make this great The Very Hungry Caterpillar cake! Originally posted Summer 2020 *Some affiliate links may be included in this post. By clicking on them I may make a small commission at no additional cost to you. Ingredients: Step 1- Halfway Homemade Cake Spray bundt pan with nonstick spray. Put a few sprinkles of flour in the pan and over the sink shake it to have a thin layer of flour throughout. Make & bake the cake per the instructions on the box. I used Annie’s confetti…
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Ohana means Family- Remembering the Magic of the Polynesian Resort
Ohana means family. It is also an amazing restaurant at the Polynesian Resort in Walt Disney World. One of our favorite Disney memories is dining here in 2017. When Covid forced us to have a staycation, we chose to recreate this meal as our Grand Finale to “Disney at Home Week”. Originally posted Spring 2020 Some links may be affiliate links. By clicking on them and/or making a purchase, I may make a small commission at no extra cost to you. While the Ohana restaurant serves breakfast and dinner, we have only dined there for dinner. Updated November 2025- I’ve finally eaten breakfast at Ohana! Read all about the experience…
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Simple Beauty and the Beast Dinner Menu & Decor Ideas
In Disney World you can visit the Beast’s castle (of Beauty and the Beast fame) by eating at Be Our Guest restaurant in the Magic Kingdom. That’s just what we did for our sixth evening of our Disney staycation. Below I’ve captured our semi-homemade meal and table decor for a fun family theme dinner! Some links are affiliate links, by clicking on them and/or making a purchase, I may make a small commission at no extra cost to you. The Disney Store on Amazon Beauty and the Beast Theme Night Back in the early days of New Fantasyland in Disney World, Be Our Guest restaurant had a seperate lunch…
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Taste the Magic of Disney: Epcot’s Mexico Pavilion-Inspired Taquitos Recipe
TLDR: An easy recipe for taquitos inspired by the Mexico pavilion at Disney’s Epcot. Originally posted May 2020 as part of my ‘Disney at Home’ series. I tweeted out a hint as to our Disney destination today, where do you think we’re going? Did you guess Epcot? Good job! Bienvenidos a Mexico! Epcot is occasionally my favorite Disney park. Even though it sometimes gets a bad wrap as the educational or boring park, it has a lot of the best food in all of Walt Disney World. Had I been feeling more adventurous I would’ve tackled fish n’ chips or the fanciest of French food for our Epcot dinner…but we’re…
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Pandora Pinterest Fails-How NOT to make cuisine from Avatar
Way back when in the land we do not speak of-2020- I designed a Disney Staycation for my family. Up until this point, our Disney week at home has been full of all hits, no misses….until I “took” us to Pandora in the Animal Kingdom. For starters this is what the tiny one did to my kitchen: Recovering from that, I set out to make the food of Pandora from Satu’li Canteen and Pongu Pongu. Originally posted Spring 2020. This post may contain affiliate links for Amazon and other sites. By clicking on a link and/or making a purchase, I may make a small commission at NO extra cost to…
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Make Mickey Mouse Rice Krispie Treats at Home!
Disney World Staycation This post finds you smack in the middle of our Disney staycation, compliments of Covid. Each day we “visit” a different part of the Walt Disney World Resort. Our homeschooling lessons are also inspired by Disney! For the sake of readability and organization I am going to do a separate post on all of our Disney homeschooling activities. You can find them here and here. In the meantime I will continue with our daily food updates this week! Today we once again concentrated on the Magic Kingdom (see yesterday’s menu here) and made homemade Mickey Mouse Rice Krispie Treats. Later we will enjoy dinner “at” The Plaza.…
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Making ‘Chicken Guy’ At Home
Since we can’t go to Disney in person I am bringing the Disney magic home to us! (Originally posted Spring 2020, updated 2025) After our super successful brunch we “traveled” to Disney Springs for dinner to eat at Chicken Guy. See my awesome & realistic decor below: Why Chicken Guy? My oldest has been obsessed with Guy Fieri for a very long time. He was so looking forward to going to his restaurant during our trip to Disney. It wasn’t even in our original plan but he was so insistent that we made room in the schedule. We’ve even watched YouTube videos reviewing the menu items! The Menu Luckily for…
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The Ultimate Comfort Food: Simple and Delicious Tortilla Soup
September is here! I’m not a crazy pumpkin spice person (gasp!) but I do love the crunchy leaves, sweatshirt weather and making warm cozy meals for my family. I decided to do another freezer meal stash before school started and wanted to include a soup. I asked the kiddos what they wanted and tortilla soup was the clear winner. Jump to recipe Note- Some links may be affiliate links, This means that by clicking on them I may make a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support and safe travels! Then it turned into a 95 degree day with 100% humidity. Mmmmmm nice warm…
