If you have no idea where to start with cooking, or just want to brush up skills, you won't want to miss this. This edition is about how to read a recipe.

Cooking School Series: How to Read a Recipe

  As a strong, yet sort of apathetic student in school I finally found myself excited about something while taking culinary classes in Switzerland the summer I was nineteen. The program was through my university where I was studying Hospitality Management. I really enjoyed being in the kitchen and cooking… and I was pretty good at it! After that trip, …

DIY Remembering Summer Mason Jars

Every summer my family takes a week long vacation to Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Summer is my absolute favorite season of the year, and spending time at Mount Desert Island is a highlight. It truly is a place of wonder and natural beauty. I’ve been vacationing here since I was a teenager and I still have not come close to …

Essential Oils 101 - Scratch Mommy E-Magazine

Essential Oils 101

Essential oils (EO) are the third part of an effective, healthy body lotion. Although optional, I think after reading today’s post about the benefits of EO, you’ll want some special ones added to your lotions, too.

Here is quite the success story about a special DIY Pregnancy Tea Recipe. Talk about two wildly different deliveries of babies! Learn how to make it here...

Soothing Pregnancy Tea Recipe

Ok, mammas this is one for the books. (That means you need to save this one!) I mean you had me at soothing……and it can help during labor. Now I am sold! During my first pregnancy, I kind of winged it. You know, I ate healthy here and there and made sure not to consume too much caffeine. I tried …

Skincare during cancer treatments is very important. Here are a few treatments and tips to help you care for your skin properly while having cancer.

Skincare During Cancer Treatments

        People diagnosed with cancer have so many things on their minds after the diagnosis…how will I take care of my family, how will this affect my job, will I be okay, etc…that they often overlook their skincare needs. Although it may seem a trivial point, “How will cancer treatments affect my skin?” It really isn’t that trivial. …