Men’s Valentines Day Gift Guide 2025

Struggling to find the perfect gift for the man in your life? This Valentine’s Day, surprise him with a thoughtful present that’s both personal and practical. Our Men’s Valentines Day Gift Guide for 2025 includes some of Cade’s favorite items that he’s tried and loved!

Women’s Valentines Gift Guide 2025

Welcome to our Women’s Valentines Day Gift Guide for 2025! Full of wonderful, personal and practical gift inspiration for the gals in your life… or even yourself! We have included some of Carrian’s personal tried and true favorites!

If you love apple cider, you’ll likely fall completely in love with Apple Cider Ice Cream. Rich and creamy, fragrant with apples and real apple cider flavor, this ice cream is heavenly when scooped over an apple crisp or served with a slice of pie.

Apple Cider Ice Cream

I tested this recipe a few different ways, and simply couldn’t get the flavor I wanted from apple cider initially. Then I finally stumbled on boiled cider.

What is Boiled Cider?

In a nutshell, boiled cider is a roughly 8 to 1 concentration of apple cider. Nothing is added. It has a tart, sweet apple taste. It will add an intense apple flavor to anything that you cook with apples.

Can you make boiled cider at home? Sure. You’ll need a gallon of cider to make about 2 cups worth of boiled cider. It will take about 5-6 hours to reduce down over low simmering heat.

That said, I found purchasing boiled cider to be a terrific option for my purposes. You can purchase it on Amazon, and also directly from the apple orchard. (It’s a trade off with a higher price and free shipping from Amazon or a lower price and paid shipping direct from the seller.)

Apple Ice Cream Recipe

To make this ice cream, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• Heavy cream
• Sugar
• Kosher salt
• Whole milk
• Boiled apple cider 
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2-Minute Rice Krispie Treat in a Mug [+Video]

If you have 3 simple ingredients and 2 minutes to spare, then you are on your way to a single serving rice krispie treat in a mug! Satisfy that sweet tooth the right way!

Kids love them. Adults love them. They are a great dessert to feed a crowd. Our brown butter dulce de leche rice krispie treats are just about the best thing you will ever taste in your life! And if you want just a classic rice krispies treat, we’ve got you covered there too! But what if you just need a quick Rice Krispie treat fix and don’t want a whole pan of them tempting you all week long?

My sister and her family make little single serving Rice Krispie treats so that they don’t have a bunch of dessert sitting around that everyone keeps munching on. I thought it was such a great idea!

Here is a special glimpse into a typical evening in the Cheney household. We get the kids down for bed, and all we want to do is sit down with a sweet treat and veg!  Is this how it is at your house too? Or are we the only ones? The problem is that most sweet treats come in large quantities. This Rice Krispie treat in a mug for one has been our go-to lately!

The other problem is that we have no time to veg! After the kids are in bed is our prime time to jam out most of our work on the blog. But we aren’t complaining! There is something so fulfilling about being productive with your time! Don’t get me wrong, we quite often turn on some Netflix in the background.

Ingredients for Rice Krispie Treat in a Mug

You only need 3 ingredients to make this sweet treat for one! Here is the ingredients list:

• Butter
• Rice Krispies Cereal
• Marshmallows

If you happen to be out of Rice Krispies, scroll down to the section below for substitution ideas. The measurements needed can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

Rice Krispie Treats – A History

Can you guess what year Rice Krispie treats came to be?  I had no clue, but it was a lot earlier than I expected! According to Wikipedia, Rice Krispie treats were invented in 1939 in the home economics department of the Kellogg Company as a fund raiser. That means there has been 85 years of Rice Krispie treats magic!  Everyone should make this Rice Krispie treat in a mug to celebrate!

Rice Krispie Treats for Special Diets

You can buy Rice Krispies that are gluten free. Just make sure the box says “Gluten Free” on the front.  They are different than your regular Rice Krispies. The Great Value Walmart brand is my go-to!

Butter and marshmallows are gluten-free. That is great news for our gluten free friends!  However with the butter in there, it is not dairy-free.  There is an easy solution for that…just replace the butter with coconut oil!  It works like a charm and still tastes like the Rice Krispie treat you know and love!

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Cottage cheese eggs are a simple dish that’s so packed with good-for-you ingredients and protein that it’ll keep you going well into the lunch hour. They’re truly a powerhouse breakfast and easy way to energize your morning!

Cottage Cheese Eggs

They’re so jammed with good stuff, in fact, that my boys used to (and technically still do) call them “Power Eggs.” The original title of the post here was “Cheesy Scrambled Eggs with Spinach a.k.a. Power Eggs.”

However, that title was a mouthful, albeit a delicious one, and the most important thing here is that these are just as tasty as can be, fluffy, cheesy, cottage cheese eggs. This is something we’ve been eating for well over ten years now, and the spinach in the recipe is optional. So, it was time to update this post. If you add spinach, though, Popeye will approve!

Spinach Eggs

Many years ago, after watching Popeye eat his spinach and then grow stronger, my boys decided this breakfast should be called “Power Eggs.” Pretty much any time that we have spinach in the house, my boys request that I prepare their eggs this way. And now that they can cook for themselves, they often add in spinach too.

Yes, you read that right. My children are actually requesting that I add more spinach to their breakfast. If you give it a try, I suspect that you’re going to love these eggs just as much as we do.

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