Next Thursday, My Kitchen Is Open will be celebrating 2 years of being a part of the world wide blogosphere! To celebrate, I’ll be hosting a giveaway for, in my opinion, a prized cookbook, ONE beautiful copy of “The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays.” The giveaway starts today, November 15th, 2013 andRead more
Try it Out Thursday Try It Out Thursday is dedicated to recipes, products or ideas that I find on Pinterest or receive in my e-mail. I tend to “pin” and save a lot of recipes and craft ideas and never try them so I decided that this will help me wade through the many pins andRead more
Houseparty chose me to host a Hewlett Packard #warmupyourwalls party. Last Saturday I planned a dessert party where I served carrot cake cupcakes, red velvet cupcakes, pumpkin pie, coffee and water. The turn out for the party was small, (even though I invited 15 people) but some of the sweetest people did show up andRead more
“If you had to be trapped inside a movie for five days, what movie would you pick?” I thought this would be a PERFECT post for The Mister to handle… This question is almost as hard to answer as the question of what super power I would choose. I mean, there are so many great moviesRead more
Tonight we had some good friends over to sample the brined turkey. I believe it was a hit. I would post a picture but there wasn’t time to take any. We all came from a very long day at church and were too hungry to even think about getting some photos. So grateful for turkey!Read more
My two year blogiversary is coming soon! I can’t believe that My Kitchen Is Open has been up and running for almost 2 years. Something special is coming! Keep coming back to find out what! ~Mrs Galvan~
It’s been 8 days since I started blogging daily and during these 8 days I have learned that I really need to get ahead if I’m going to blog on a daily basis. I really need some time where I can sit down and allow my creative juices to flow. I need some time whereRead more
Today we had our first 50 something degree cool front and it was beautiful outside. I could’ve been outside all day long! The high today was 66. If you’re not from Deep South Texas you will never understand why we appreciate these temperatures. I love this weather because I get to wear leggings, scarves andRead more
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I did not want to write about this, mostly because if it’s written down, it true. It’s time to come out of denial though. If I could change one thing about myself, it would be the character defect of giving up too easy.Read more
Last year I participated in Tutu and Tea Parties’ Ornament Swap 2012 and it was such a great experience. I received the cutest ornament and made acquaintances with a blogger. This year, I decided, once again to take part in the swap. Sign-up’s have ended so don’t try to sign-up now. They ended on 10/26/2013.Read more