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Darie Estill

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*EDIT* Only four spots left for our Thursday class

*EDIT* Only four spots left for our Thursday class!

We've had so many requests for our in-person sourdough bread class that we've opened up 2 dates for December.

❌This amazing bread is not the trendy white bread of 2020...

✅This is whole grain, easy on your gut, delicious, versatile goodness!

We'll make sourdough breads like cinnamon pastry bread, tortillas, sandwich loaf, and more.

Read more in bio! 🍞

#sourdoughbread #sourdoughstarter #sourdoughbaking #madefromscratch #farmclass #breadmaking #breadclass #homemadebreads #adayonthefarm #learnsomethingnew #artisianbread

Can you guess what kind of flowers these are?? Th

Can you guess what kind of flowers these are??

They’re some of our favorites: PEONIES!! 😍💐

We planted this variety a few years ago, and we’re very surprised when the beautiful pink blossoms turned white after a few days. 😯

What are your favorite flowers?? 💐

#trulyblissful #joyfulliving #farmhouseliving #springishere🌸
#peonies

Meet my good friend Avery. She's an amazing wife,

Meet my good friend Avery. She's an amazing wife, mom, and entrepreneur. As a matter of fact, she's our coach! ❤

But like lots of busy, work-from-home moms, she's overwhelmed in the kitchen. She has felt defeated for so long.

💪💪What she wants to feel is confident. She wants to WANT to cook! Make sense??

🍳🍳Avery knows that providing good meals on a consistent basis is super important for her family. But the planning, shopping, and prepping are just so much to juggle!

🥳With our help, she had a win in the kitchen, and her son said of her..."Not only can my mom cook, she can cook GOOD!"🎉

We want YOU to have a win like Avery!

Introducing... Girl Can Cook: A membership to get you planning, shopping, prepping, and cooking. Without stress.

You'll get...

✅Recipes
✅Grocery lists
✅Cook-Along Cooking Classes
✅Coaching
✅Community and accountability
✅Weekly Zooms

Benefits...

✴️Your meals will be planned.
✴️You'll cook more.
✴️You'll stress less.
✴️You'll be an expert cook and love it!
✴️Your family will be so blessed.
✴️Your time in the kitchen will be quicker and easier!

Even if...

❌You think you don't have time.
❌You think you hate to cook.
❌You know how to cook.
❌You don't know how to cook.
❌You feel defeated.
❌You have a small kitchen.
❌Your mom didn't teach you how to cook.

Are you ready to cook more and stress less?

Ditch the defeat and JOIN US!

❤❤❤
Carolina & Darie

Homemade P•A•S•T•A!! This was our first

Homemade P•A•S•T•A!!

This was our first time making homemade pasta, and it’s harder than it looks to make with ease.
But we had fun, and the results were worth it. 😋
Each plate was “made to order”, we picked our toppings: spinach, garlic, tomatoes, etc, the sautéed with the noodles. 🍅
Add sauce, and V•O•I•L•A! 🍝

It may seem crazy or intimidating to some that we made our own pasta. But we got here one step at a time— it was intimidating to us until we tried it! 🤩
You’re on the same journey. Maybe you find making anything from scratch a little overwhelming.
But friend, you can do it. ❤️
🍰One step at a time.
🍰One new recipe at a time.
🍰One new technique at a time.

💥It will not always turn out perfectly!

I can think of many meals and new recipes that didn’t turn out right in our kitchen! Like that time the cinnamon made the curry totally thick and slimy! Or when I forgot to add the leavening to scones last week! 😖🤷🏼‍♀️😅

Don’t give up. Don’t feel dumb. 🥳

The key to good cooking, is to E•N•J•O•Y!! 🥗🥰

Enjoy the process.
Enjoy experimenting.
Enjoy the meals that turn out well, and learn from the ones that don’t!
Enjoy tasting, seasoning, E•A•T•I•N•G.

Cheers to the journey!!🎉

#girlcancook #homemadepasta #cookingisajoy #joyfulliving

Hey, Mama! Sometimes it's hard to juggle it all!

Hey, Mama! Sometimes it's hard to juggle it all!

🥵🥵You're trying to plan and cook and keep the house clean and run a business or ministry and teach the kids and spend time with your husband and fit in a shower, and, and, and!!!

🎯🎯We want to at least help in the kitchen so you can thrive in other areas of your life!

We challenge you to plan, shop, prep, and cook with us!

We've created the Girl, Get Cooking 5-day challenge just for you!

🍔Even if you know how to cook, we'll help you get consistent and cook with less stress.

And if you don't know how to cook, we'll show you how!🍳🍳

You'll get...
✅ 2 cooking classes
✅ Recipes
✅ Community
✅ Q & A
✅ Live lessons each day!

See you there!

Link in bio.👆👆👆

From one busy mama to another!
❤ Darie

Luciano Pavarotti (Opera singer) once said, “One

Luciano Pavarotti (Opera singer) once said, “One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing, and devote our attentions to eating.” 🥪🥗🍉

Not only does food give us nourishment, but just like a song, brings a joy and rhythm into our lives. Cooking that food is much like a dance- one must work on steps and techniques, and in the end, you have a masterpiece to enjoy, even if it’s something as simple as a sandwich.🎶🍑

But food many times brings us frustration.

Perhaps we forgot to buy the noodles for tonight’s spaghetti, or just burned the roast chicken. Maybe you just sat down to relax, and your toddler is already begging for lunch.
Maybe you want to learn, but don’t know where to start.
😖
The art of making food is a dance. Sometimes it’s beautiful, sometimes it’s exhausting. 💃

You can do it.🙌🏻

- Candylina & Dairy 😅

🥪

#girlcancook #girlgetcookingchallenge #youcandoit #timeforfood #letseat

🥪

Oh! And we have a resource for you:
Girl Can Cook Challenge! Link bio 💥🙌🏻

You’ll get:

1. A meal plan
2. Grocery list
3. Technique how-to’s
4. 2 Cooking classes
5. A fun community of women
6. Step-by-step support from yours truly!!😍
• Even if you think you can’t cook. (We’ll make cooking easy!)
• Even if you already know how to cook, this challenge will help you be more consistent
• Even if you think you don’t have time (You’ll actually actually save time!)

Got questions?? Ask below!

Spring is here. 💐And I have one question for yo

Spring is here. 💐And I have one question for you: Do you feel as excited about spring as I do??

🌬Have you felt desperation to leave cold, grey winters behind, and melt away into gentle spring time?💐

To me, spring is a gift. 🎁

It makes me feel hopeful.

Refreshed. ✨

Joyful! 😄

It’s a reminder that God leads us through all season- easy, hard, joyful, sad, muddy, warm- and brings us into beautiful, colorful springs!❤️🌷

He renews us with His love and joy.

What a gift! 🥰

Spring is a time to be refreshed. A time to go outside and fill your lungs with sweet, flowery air! Open windows to let the breeze swirl in. Pick little spring flowers to brighter you table! So many beautiful things, just outside our doors.

My top 10 favorite things to do in SPRING:

1. Have a picnic/read spring poems🍰🥗

2. Open the windows

3. Pick flowers- I love violets

4. Listen to birdsong

5. Try spring recipes- strawberry salad!

6. Get spring/summer dresses out! 👗

7. Work in our garden- plant seeds!

8. Take long walks

9. Inspect new life- budding trees, baby
animals, tender grass🌱

10. Listen to my classical spring playlist 🎶

What about you?? How do you celebrate spring??🎉

#springishere🌸 #spring2021 #springdreaming #quoteofday

Meet my daughter Georgia-Kate. She's 16, and this

Meet my daughter Georgia-Kate. She's 16, and this girl can cook!👩‍🍳👩‍🍳

It never occurred to Georgia-Kate to hate cooking or think that she can't cook. Why??👇👇

🍳🥣Because she grew up with a mama and a grandmama that cooked. And not only did her mama cook, but she also let her help cook even when she was a little girl!

⚡️⚡️Now, at 16 years old, Georgia pops into the kitchen and makes amazing dishes for her family!

🍰And she has her own biz selling cakes and teaching others to make desserts.

Busy Mama, learning to cook and passing it down to your kids is an invaluable blessing to your family. Get empowered. Empower your kids!💪💪

Girl, Get Cooking with us!

#girlcancook #girlgetcookingchallenge

Ever felt defeated in the kitchen? 😬 Leigh Ann

Ever felt defeated in the kitchen? 😬

Leigh Ann knows how you feel. She's an amazing wife, mama to 2 little ones(one with severe food allergies), and an entrepreneur. 💥💃
Juggling all these things can be overwhelming!

She needs planning, prepping, and cooking to be easy! So we've been working with her to create confidence in the kitchen.

She's working her way from defeated to empowered, shedding mom guilt, and finding joy in the kitchen! 🍒

Join Leigh Ann and be a girl that can cook!💪🥣👩‍🍳

Head to the link in our bio to join the
“Girl Get Cooking Challenge”!

💌DM with any questions or just to say hi! We’d love to chat with you!

💁‍♀️What makes you feel defeated in the kitchen?? Tell us below! 👇👇 For me, it’s usually a time issue! I’m not prepared and then I feel rushed! 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

#christainentreprenuer #momprenuers #girlcancook #girlgetcookingchallenge

Here's an easy meal plan that uses basic categorie

Here's an easy meal plan that uses basic categories to plan the week! We love to use a plan like this. Simply plug in the recipes for the day.
Simple wins help so much!

Monday: Italian

Tuesday: Taco Tuesday (or whatever Mexican)

Wednesday: Soup/Stew and Salad

Thursday: Roast (chicken, pork, beef)

Friday: Homemade Pizza

Saturday: Leftovers, Free choice or Grilled

Sunday: Crockpot

#easymealideas #easyrecipes #workfromhomemom #mealprep

Hey, Girl! We know you're trying to juggle it all!

Hey, Girl! We know you're trying to juggle it all! Work, home, meals, family--All the things!
🙌🏻 Help is on the way.
No, we're not going to come to your house every day and cook for you.
We're gonna do you one better...
You're going to learn to prep, plan, and cook so well that you'll go from defeated to empowered in the kitchen! 💪🏼✨
You don't have to choose work over homemaking. Or homemaking over being an entrepreneur.
The Proverbs 31 girl did it all! And did it like a boss!
You can, too. ☺️
Eager to learn more?? Check out our story/the link the bio!🍒🥣

🍒🥬🥣🍒🥬🥣🍒🥬🥣
#girlcancook #cookingcoaches #mealtimesimplified #cookfromscratch #momprenuerlife #mombossliving #busymama #ihatecooking #bossbabe #bossmoms #workfromhomemoms #easymealideas #healthyliving

🍒People tell us all the time that they aren’t

🍒People tell us all the time that they aren’t a good cook. Friend- You weren’t born cooking! It’s a learned skill. Are you willing to learn?
🥣The more you cook, the better you cook.
It’s not about everything being perfect and gourmet. It’s about small things, like learning to chop, and how to pick a good recipe.
☺️And it’s about enjoying food with those you love. Food is more than cooking, it’s more than necessary nourishment- it’s about taking a moment to enjoy something, sharing with those you love. Food is a blessing. 😋
Are you willing to learn? It’s really not that hard. It’s just step-by-step. And guess what? We’re here to help you on your journey.🍒

🍆🥬🥗🍾
#girlcancook #juliachild #practicemakesperfect👌 #learntocook #cookingtips #cookingfromscratch #youcandothis #foodporn #bestrecipes #easymeals #homemadesalsa

“There is no trouble so great or grave that cann

“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be diminished by a nice cup of tea.”
-Bernard Paul Heroux-

Tea is one of our favorite pick-me-ups for a tiring day or long week. It’s so refreshing and mind clearing -oh, and it makes the perfect excuse to have a little complimentary cookie...🤫

What about you? What’s your favorite pick-me-up??

Happiest of Mondays to you! May your week start off joyfully and full of sunshine!☕️🎀

Remember Isaiah 40:31- the Lord is our greatest pick-me-up! 🤗😉

#mondaymorning #mondaymotivation #timefortea #youcandothis #joyfulliving #valentineflowers #trulyblissfulliving #teaquote #tealovers #madefromscratch #homemade #easymealideas #workfromhomemom #busymomlife

Breakfast. They say it’s the most important meal

Breakfast. They say it’s the most important meal of the day, and as A. A. Gill well put it:

“Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.” - A. A. Gill ✨

It sounds that simple too. Make and eat breakfast. But for most of us, it’s not always that simple. It’s more of a race just to get the day started. ☕️

Get dressed! Make coffee, feed the dog, finish up your business notes from last night! Make sure the kiddos finish their chores, kiss your husband as he hurries out the door, unload the dishwasher, and try to fix your hair! We all have our morning to-do differences, but starting the day isn’t always easy, much less, having a nice unhurried breakfast.

Can anyone else RELATE?? 🥲

But don’t be discouraged. Take each day, each breakfast, one at a time. Some may be hurried, some may be relaxed with gingerbread, tea and candle light.

Remember that “His mercies are new every morning.” 🕊☀️

You can do it, one breakfast at a time.

📸☕️: Gingerbread (recipe on blog soon!), Dubliner Cheese, Hot Tea, Sausage Spinach Soufflé Eggs, Kerrygold Butter, Bright Oranges and Apples. Such a lovely winter breakfast! 🌨🍳

#breakfasttoday #breakfasttime #timefortea #farmhousekitchen #easymealideas #busymomlife #heartandhome #easybreakfastideas #hismerciesareneweverymorning #startthedayright #youcandothis

Friday night is our pizza night. Every week. No qu

Friday night is our pizza night. Every week. No questions asked. Everyone looks forward to it because: 1. We always know what to expect, and of course 2. who doesn’t love pizza??? 🍕🍕

There is something the about consistency, and looking forward to something delicious and comforting that makes Friday nights special. In fact, if anyone doubts that Friday’s menu may have changed- there’s an outright coup in our house!

At this point, I think you get my message: we love our Friday night pizza- every week.

I think sometimes we strive so hard to keep things fresh, exciting, different, that we may miss those simple consistencies that really bless us.

We feel guilty, as if we don’t do enough. I know that busy moms especially feel this way.

But we do. You do.

So take a deep breath, and go eat some pizza.

📸> GF pizza 🍕, fresh salad with grapes, praline pecans, sprouts, cucumbers and a feta dressing 🥗😋

#pizzanight #fridaynightpizza #momprenuer #busymom #mealplanning #eatfresh #noguiltfood #youcandothis #farmhousekitchen #saladideas #mealideas #trulyblissfulliving #eatfresh

Hey busy mama! You've got so much to juggle with

Hey busy mama! You've got so much to juggle with kids, work, and all the things! BREAKFAST should be quick and EASY most days, right??

As a busy work from home mom myself, I totally get it, so I thought I'd share this super simple meal idea.

I'm sure you've heard of overnight oats, sometimes called muesli? Well, I always forget to soak them overnight! Too much mental effort.

So I put oats, milk (or oat milk), cinnamon, real maple syrup, and a dash of salt in a bowl when I get up.

I put out a one or more of these:

Chopped 🍎 apples
Sliced banana 🍌
Halved grapes 🍇
Chopped nuts (I love walnuts!)
Raisins or cranberries
Berries 🍓

Sometimes I leave the goodies right on the cutting board so I don't have to wash bowls. 😉

My fave to have with these oats is a slice of bacon 🥓 and a cup of tea.

Easy for the mompreneur or any busy mom!

Oh, and light a candle for breakfast. Why not??

❤❤❤ -Darie

#mompreneur #breakfastideas #overnightoats #farmhouserecipes #muesli #timefortea #busymom #bossbabe

Food doesn’t have to be complicated to be tasty

Food doesn’t have to be complicated to be tasty and good for you. For lunch, we had a simple salad with grapes, cucumber, cinnamon pecans, sprouts and a lovely feta dressing- so vibrant and fresh!- along with teriyaki tuna, almond flour crackers, and of course- TEA! Its was easy to make, and even easier to eat!
😉☕️
What do you like to have for lunch?? 👇👇

#trulyblissfulliving #joyfulliving #farmhousekitchen #thatsdarling #allthingslovely #foodphotography #food #homemade #lunch #healthylifestyle #cook #recipe #healthywomen #fit #tea #afternoontea #quickandeasyfood #eat #goodeats #instafood #cozyhome

Tea at Copper Kettle Tea Bar! We tried 3 soups: P

Tea at Copper Kettle Tea Bar!

We tried 3 soups: Pumpkin Chipotle soup, Tomato Bisque, and Beer Cheese Sausage soup. The Beer Cheese was our fave!

The Feta Dip with fried garlic and pita was really good.

We had a Scottish Whiskey Tea that was superb!

And to finish, an Orange Blossom Scone. It was good but not really a scone. More muffin-ish.

All in all, a great little place to pop by for lunch. We'd like to try their Afternoon Tea or maybe a themed tea like their Hobbit Tea.

#timefortea #allthingslovely #motherdaughtertime #tearoom #afternoontea #tealoversofinstagram #joyfulliving #sconesandtea #heartandhome #trulyblissfulliving #cozyliving

Volunteering at Turkeys From Heaven-Troy! 600 meal

Volunteering at Turkeys From Heaven-Troy! 600 meals going out today to the community.

#trulyblissfulliving #allthingslovely #christmas2020 #joyfulliving #turkeysfromheaven

🎄NEW BLOG POST!🎄 Need ideas for memory maki

🎄NEW BLOG POST!🎄

Need ideas for memory making activities during this glorious holiday season?

🎄Spending time together is the best present of all, so we thought we'd share our Countdown to Christmas Calendar.

🎁We list 25 days of ideas for all ages and an easy DIY calendar that you can start any time.

Don't worry about trying to do something all month long. Start when you can and enjoy!

Remember...it's about being together and giving your family lovely moments to cherish.

Link in bio❤️
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#christmas2020 #lovelywoman #christmasadventcalendar #christmasmagic #christmasfun #countdowntochristmas #farmhousechristmas #hotchocolatetime #letitsnow #cutesnowman #trulyblissfulliving #allthingslovely #familychristmas #christmasactivities

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