Spring Cookie Boxes – The Ultimate Gift!

We know finding gifts for the kids, your significant other or your friends and family can put a damper on the warming weather, sunny skies, and family get-togethers. Our cookie spring boxes are putting an end to stress of Mother’s Day gifts and spring celebrations! We offer multiple sizes and options for our Spring Cookie…

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Family Grilling

Sunday nights are a great time to get everyone involved in the kitchen + with the weather being so nice, our family spent a lot of time outdoors.  Planning an easy meal for the grill using fresh ingredients from farmers markets is simple this time of year.   Here is an easy family dinner menu…

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Gardening With The Girls

My girls love to do anything I’m doing, so when it is time to plant herbs, vegetables + flowers at the house, they are ready to pitch in.  A few years ago they received their own gardening gloves, shovels, garden hoes from the Easter bunny– in pink of course! They love using their own tools…

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Quiche Anytime

A perfect accompaniment for all kinds of occasions, a quiche is great as the star of the meal or as a side dish. I like to use spring vegetables in my quiche that I have around the house or find in the garden (depending on the season). It’s effortless to grab a few choice vegetables like mushrooms, spinach,…

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Power behind the Sunflower Shoots

I have a new favorite way of incorporating healthy greens. Sunflower shoots!  I fell in love with a local farmer’s micro greens at Tower Grove Market. The business is called Bee Simple.  She offers the most amazing quality of sun flower shoots, which have a variety of health benefits in addition to the delicious crunch + flavor that can be…

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Fall is Sweet

There are so many things that I love about fall, one of them being the colors. The leaves turn to bright oranges + reds while the air becomes crisp + refreshing. Incorporating these beautiful colors in our meals at this time of year is fun. My girls particularly enjoy when the vegetable of choice is sweet potatoes,…

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In the Kitchen with Kara: Oh, Sweetie Pie!

Sweet potatoes are kind of a big deal in the Chef Kara household. The reigning queen of age four is disappointed when the French fries aren’t “orange” and the resident toddler treasures them, as well. Naturally, we’ve adapted many varieties for enjoying one of our favorite, healthful and extremely versatile foods. Sweet potatoes provide one…

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At Home with Kara: Casual Elegance

A night at home doesn’t have to mean take out and pjs. We’ve been taking advantage of these long summer nights and this beautiful (read: freakishly cool) St. Louis summer.                              

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In the Kitchen with Kara: All Grown Up

Isn’t nostalgia powerful? Can’t you just taste your childhood sometimes? Some of the yummiest combinations are recalled…chocolate and cold milk, macaroni and gooey cheese, peanut butter and jelly. Chef Kara is really just a big kid but with the taste buds of Martha Stewart so she created this grown up PB&J for all of us…

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