A few years ago, I canned chili beans for the first. It’s a great winter time project. Since it requires a fair amount of time and heat to have the burner on the stove running, the heat might as well be put to good use compared to home canning that HAS to be done in […]
Peanut Butter Pie
Alrighty! A challenge for myself. I’m going to {hopefully} post a week of recipes. I still have a lot I’d love to have catalogued on here and printed out and added to my three-ring binder that I started. I’m going to shoot for this Monday through Friday {and maybe Saturday} of recipes. I have a […]
Memoir Monday {No. 49}
Hot drinks and snow on the ground ~ so began our week last week! Little snowman… Want to know what era you are from? Finish this sentence. IF ALL ELSE FAILS,________________________. My daughter and I were trying to figure out how to attach a lid with snaps onto the fabric bin it belonged on. We […]
Harvest Apple Cake
This cake has long been a favorite recipe of mine. I’ve made it for a lot of years and don’t even remember when I first made it. I find myself pulling out the recipe every autumn and at other times of the year too! When I have extra apples, I chop up enough for this […]
Banana Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Another recipe to add in to my recipe log and a favorite around here! It’s a great way to use up bananas that nobody picked up and ate and are getting overripe. This seems to occur now and again, unless you have someone at your house that likes really, really ripe bananas. {I remember someone […]
Tea Syrup for the Freezer
We drink a lot of iced tea around here. My husband’s family are iced tea drinkers and he grew up drinking iced tea. My family didn’t drink tea. My dad would sometimes, I think, if we went somewhere and they were serving iced tea. I don’t remember ever fixing it when I was at home. […]
Cornmeal Rolls
Another of our favorite bread recipes! I hadn’t made cornmeal rolls for quite a while. We were at a friend’s house a while back and she served them. My son loved them and wanted to make them. I found my recipe and we made cornmeal rolls! They didn’t last very long. They are really soft […]
Rhubarb Crisp
I married a man that enjoys rhubarb desserts now and then. I don’t remember having rhubarb when I was a kid. My grandma did make Rhubarb Jello like my mother-in-law makes. I don’t remember her fixing it when I was young, but I probably just heard “rhubarb” and didn’t even try it. I was picky. […]
Peanut Butter Rice Krispy Squares
Here is our version of Rice Krispy Squares. We love these things. Super simple. Super easy. Super-duper yummy! This was something else I made a good bit when I was kid. They don’t take long, don’t require baking and you soon have a sweet, crunchy treat! It’s also really yummy to throw in some M&M’s. […]
Marshmallow Peeps Spring Cake
I saw the idea for a cake topped with marshmallow Peeps in a magazine and thought it looked like fun. I am far from blue ribbon category or magazine photo worthy or Pinterest Perfect when it comes to culinary creations. I just enjoy baking and trying out new recipes now and then. When I get […]
Party Cheeseball
I remember my Mother fixing this cheeseball when I was growing up. I always loved it. When I was a kid, I didn’t care for the dried beef/corned beef version of cheeseball and it seemed like it was popular and if cheeseball was on the menu, it was the one! My Mother would make both […]
Chicken Crescents
Today it’s Chicken Crescents here on my blog! I get hungry for these every so often! I was thumbing through some favorite recipes to put together a menu for a supper with friends. When I landed on Chicken Crescents, Chicken Crescents it was! I made a favorite rice recipe to go with them. That recipe […]
Chai Tea
We were at a friend’s house not so long ago. In the afternoon she mixed up and heated up and served us some delicious Chai Tea. I seriously doubt that if I was flipping through recipes that I would’ve landed on this recipe and decided to try it just from reading it. I love finding […]
Mac and Cheese Casserole
How about some more comfort food? Cold weather, casseroles and cozy kitchen with the oven on! When I want something fairly quick to fix {who am I kidding? Isn’t that always what I’m after?} and something we all like, if I think about it, I will make this Mac and Cheese Casserole. It is my […]
Tater Tot Casserole
Comfort food. Food you grow up with. There are some foods that fit in both categories. When I was a kid, my mom fixed tater-tot casserole and my sister and I loved it. Still do. Now, my daughter does. She didn’t used to, but she like a lot more foods as she’s getting older. This […]
Sweet Potato Casserole
I made sweet potato casserole and took to my aunt’s for Thanksgiving dinner this year. I’m the only one in our little family that likes sweet potato casserole. Or sweet potatoes in general. I don’t eat them a lot, but I do like sweet potato casserole. It goes well with Thanksgiving dinner and with Christmas […]