Author: Tammy Litke

Cooking with Caitlin is hosting a Foodies’ Night-In Twitter Party with Good Cook, along with special guest Brooke McLay from Cheeky Kitchen (@CheekyKitchen). And guess what?! I’m going to be there as one of the featured “Kitchen Experts”!

The Twitter party is going to take place on March 4, 2013 at 4pm to 5:30pm EST/1:00pm to 2:30pm PST (so mark your calendars!) – and we’ll be using the hashtag #FNIchat.

You can be a part of the party by tweeting about all things food, kitchen tools and everything in between.

Classic literature is a staple of reading and language arts classes across the world. People fondly claim that reading old literature enhances your knowledge and gives you a better appreciation for ‘real’ writing. This might be true, but it is also an honest fact that most students find ‘classics’ to be boring and confusing. By the time they’re done reading, most of them will have no idea, or understanding of what they’ve just read. Including my 16 year old daughter as bright as she is.

That’s where Providence E-Learning’s e-books shine; explaining these classic literature pieces and their seemingly unrelated morals to today’s culture.

Texting has got to be the most convenient forms of communication. Assuming of course that the person you want to text has something more than a dinosaur or brick for a cell phone. Which, my husband does not. Go figure, the man that turned me into a self-proclaimed geeky nerd is falling behind the curve. But in all seriousness, phoning him isn’t always an option and being able to communicate and organize our daily activities beyond messaging isn’t always the easiest of tasks. He makes plans, and forgets to tell me, I need to tell him something but can’t get ahold of him. I’m sure you have been in the same boat a time or two.

Winter storm Orko was headed our way, and while we never need an excuse to have Family Movie Night around here, it sure was a good one to get cozied up in front of the TV and have a Jungle Party and watch The Jungle Book: Rumble in the Jungle.

Many, many moons ago, my husband was at a technical conference for his job.  One of the guest speakers at said conference was Cliff Stoll, an astronomer turned systems manager at Berkeley who found a computer hacker in their system. 

He related his story to the attendees, and also had his book, The Cuckoo’s Egg, for sale about his experience hunting down the hacker.  My husband bought a copy, read it, and then it sat on our bookshelf…for many, many years.

What do cookies have to do with this you ask?

It’s been a long time since I’ve been caught up enough in both my blogging life and my real life that I have a chance to share some things that aren’t sponsored or haven’t been sent to me by a brand to try out! I’m hoping (and I say that with just a bit of facetiousness), that I’ll be able to do this more in the future, but every time I say I will…well you know life happens!

That being said, I chronicle just about everything I make and we eat in our home.

Well here it is, not even Valentine’s Day yet, and I’m talking about Easter! Crazy right?! But check out your local retailers and I’m guessing you’re seeing some Easter goods ‘springing’ up in your stores too. Easter’s pretty early on the calendar this year, March 31st.

When our daughter was younger we used to do those Easter Egg hunts with her in our basement. She loved those. Putting her eggs in a basket and then checking out what was in them when she had found them all. Speaking of baskets – a great place to order some Personalized Easter Baskets for kids is at www.PersonalCreations.com.

In the community I grew up in, Lent was not a thing to take part in. When we moved, I genuinely had questions about all the ‘fish’ deals popping up before Easter. A few questions here and there and I finally understood. We don’t practice Lent in our home (although I probably should, there are a number of things I could sacrifice for 40 days and it would likely make my life a lot better because of it), but fish once a week is something I do.

I wanted to my readers know that YoCrunch is introducing a new authentic Greek Yogurt brand…Yopa!

YoCrunch is so sure you will LOVE Yopa! Greek yogurt, they guarantee it! If for any reason you are not satisfied, you can fill out the form on their site, and mail it to them, along with the original UPC/barcode from the packaging and your original register receipt. They will send you a coupon for a free Yopa! or a refund voucher of your purchase price, whichever you prefer. (See full details at this link.) Offer ends and the requests must be postmarked by 3.31.2013.

February is the month of love with Valentine’s Day, Celebration of Love Week and Love Your Pet Day (February 20), and Pajanimals want to help you celebrate by offering new FREE PAJANIMALS themed Valentine’s printable cards.