Dewey's Treehouse

September 13th Tina's Groove cartoon In this millennial world, about twenty years after we first lost ourselves in homeschooling in ...

Quick casserole: layers of cut-up tortillas, spaghetti sauce, cheese, spinach, strips of tortilla on top allowed to get a little crispy.  ...

These ideas are drawn from Lydia's schedule; although she's setting the pace for much of this fall's work herself, it doesn'...

Navy Bean Soup I got the basic idea for this from Leanne Ely's book Saving Dinner .  But this is how I did it: Soak one pound navy b...

Maybe it's a funny time of year to cut flowers, but these ones are still holding together. I brought in two nice big spiders along wit...

Bean soup in the slow cooker Mr. Fixit at work Collections and treasures. All photos by Mama Squirrel.  Copyright 2014 Dew...

Shepherd's pie, made with ground turkey, frozen Oriental-style vegetables and peas, mashed potatoes Baked sweet potatoes Yesterday...

These are bars made from the recipe for Raisin or Date Squares , from The More With Less Cookbook . Except that this time I made them with h...

If the row of bright, colourful macarons at the store always draws you in (only to be frightened back by the price), Jello cookies may be fo...

Tonight's dinner menu: Ratouille.  One big pan made with diced leftover pork chops , cherry tomatoes, zucchini, red pepper, a little ...

Because any links I've given previously don't seem to go past the list of ingredients, here's the recipe for Chocolate Brannie...

 Pork chops, sauce, sliced tomatoes  Broccoli, cooking  Brannies, sliced Dinner plates!

Perogies, Broccoli Garden tomatoes (the Romas seem to have gotten over their blossom end rot) Sticky Chops, from A Year of Slow Coo...

The Deputy Headmistress posted a response to this article, "The Joy of Cooking?" , which is an academic-style paper with this as ...

The second week of school.   In some ways it usually goes better than the first week, because you know the whole thing's not going to co...

Every September, the weekend after school starts, one nearby church has a rummage sale.  We've gone nearly every year that I can remembe...

I crocheted this for friends at church who have a new baby girl.  It's on the small side, about 25 inches across, but I was thinking mor...

These days I feel less and less like a homeschool mom. Whatever that is. My eighth grader is now doing so much of her own schoolwork, that...

Tonight's dinner menu: Italian Sausages Butternut Squash (cubed and steamed) Casserole: cut-up spaghetti, celery, leftover cooked an...

Welcome to the when-we-feel-like-it Treehouse feature "Frugal Finds and Fixes." If you've noticed more photos on the blog la...