Cooking with Ellen

My mom makes the best homemade oatmeal soap using real lye and raw ingredients. While I think this would be a cool hobby, frankly my small apartment might not facilitate this dangerous task! So, I became inventive, did some googling, and went to work. The result is a very pleasing, rough textured soap that Ryan [...]

A new/familiar face has reentered the Cooking with Ellen sponsors list. A good friend of mine, Mike Allen (his daughters were the flower girls at my wedding!), owns a wonderful online resource for coupons. Shopping-Bargains has helped our family save lots of money by identifying potential online coupons available for various stores. What a better [...]

The Starkville, Mississippi Festival of Trees will soon kick off it’s annual celebration with everything from a tree decorating contest to fancy dinners to a gingerbread house contest. Gingerbread houses must be made from at least 80% edible ingredients (my guess is that means you can use super glue!) and follow certain criteria. They will [...]

I am on a baking soda kick – I use it to unclog and maintain drains and sprinkle it in the kitchen trash can religiously anytime I smell something. So, as you might imagine, I have a box in my refrigerator. It really seems to help contain odors – something very necessary in our [...]

“There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.” Author Unknown