Julie Measures

Measure your life by yards, cups, and miles

Preserving Peaches – Canning or Freezing Fresh Peaches in Simple Syrup

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Fresh peaches are a summer highlight! Not sure what to do with extra peaches? Preserving peaches is easy and delicious by canning or freezing peaches in simple syrup. Hot July days are made sweeter with fresh ripe peaches. While Parker county peaches are famous, and home to an annual peach festival, I'm not picky. I'll take fresh peaches wherever I can get them. But picking peaches fresh from … [Read more...]

Road Trip Spare Tire Chocolate Cake Donuts

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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #RaceDayRelief #CollectiveBias While you hope you'll never need it, a spare tire is an important tool for road trips! These donuts are inspired by the summer vacation tradition.   We are a road trip family. Those can include anything from a day trip within Texas, usually a … [Read more...]

Key Lime Pie Scones

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I love citrus flavored dishes, from breakfast to dessert. And while I've had lemon and orange flavored breakfast dishes, I don't think I've ever tried a lime inspired breakfast dish. Until now. I've taken my hankering for Key Lime Pie and created Key Lime Scones. If you were curious what makes a scone a scone, I looked it up. (I was curious.) A scone is a a single serving quick bread, with … [Read more...]

Kid Made, Mom Approved Brunch

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This post is in partnership with World Market. Thanks to World Market for helping me put together this Kid Made, Mom Approved Brunch Gift Basket #worldmarkettribe #discoverworldmarket #ad I'm not sure when, where, or why the tradition of serving Mom breakfast in bed for Mother's Day started. I love the idea of serving Mom breakfast for Mother's Day. Whether she eats … [Read more...]

Scrambled Egg Wrap

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This post was sponsored by Weight Watchers International, Inc. as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. Looking for a smart and delicious breakfast choice? See how I'm making a Scrambled Egg Wrap! Nothing makes you feel better than people telling you that you don't look old enough to have teenagers. In fact, just last week an … [Read more...]

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