My grandson just celebrated his 9th birthday and asked for a Harry Potter cake. He went through Pinterest with his mom and picked out the cake he wanted me to make. I thought it looked pretty easy for the most …
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Penne Meatball Casserole
This was an instant hit with my grandson. Anything to do with pasta and meatballs always seems to be a winner in his book. The recipe calls for prepackaged frozen meatballs and jarred marinara so it really does make for …
Spaghetti Squash Enchiladas in a Shell
I used a couple of the spaghetti squash from my garden for this dish and I really enjoyed it. My daughter wasn’t as pleased with it as I was, but then again she isn’t much of a spaghetti squash person. …
What’s on your Thanksgiving table this year?
Thanksgiving is fast approaching and will be here sooner than we think. Right around this time, every year, we start thinking about our Thanksgiving menu and how to parcel it out to folks. This year my middle daughter is hosting …
Trying to write down a recipe…not a snap
My daughter is hosting Thanksgiving this year and will be making the traditional roast turkey with stuffing. The problem is…I always make the stuffing and there is no written recipe, I just throw things together. I helped her make it …
Cauliflower Rice
First let me apologize for the awful pictures. I always forget to take a pretty after picture, but hey, this is real and not staged so what you see is what you get. I don’t want to slam other food …
Raspberry Peach Jam
Peaches from my brother-in-laws trees and raspberries we picked earlier in the summer. It was definitely helpful that we had crushed the berries and prepared them before freezing. It was simply a matter of thawing and then crushing a few …
Blackberry Pear Jelly
My brother-in-law has a few fruit trees scattered around their property and one of them produces a TON of pears. So we thought we’d try making Pear Butter and Blackberry Pear Jelly with a few of them. I simply used …
Banana Bread Revisited
My kids always complain that whenever they make one of my recipes it doesn’t taste like mine. They accuse me of leaving out steps or ingredients on purpose and I realized they are probably right. Well, maybe not on purpose, …
Mixed Berry Jam (raspberry, blackberry, blueberry)
So do you remember the berry picking I mentioned a few weeks ago? I finally got around to making one of the many batches of jam we will be making over the next few weeks. I made a mixed berry …
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Garden Update
Here it is August already. I’ve had a decent harvest so far but maybe not quite as much as I had hoped. With two zucchini plants and three yellow squash I really thought I’d have a bit more. Maybe it …
Rigatoni with Kale and Sausage
So what to do with all of the kale from my garden? I had to look around and find a bunch of different recipes that I thought the family would enjoy. I don’t mind cooking it with onions and bacon …
Garden Progress
I can’t believe how much this garden has grown since I put it in on May 8th. Just a little over a month ago and it looks like a jungle. We definitely do not have enough room for everything now …
Graduation season is here – Grad cookies
Looks like graduation season is officially here. I had a friend ask me to make 5 dozen graduation cookies for her daughter’s graduation party. Green and gold were the school colors of course. I used my standard buttercream frosting recipe. …
Can I overcome my black thumb and have a successful garden?
So after 30 years or so of moving every 3-4 years I finally have a place to call my own. The first thing my daughter and I did was start talking about a garden. Oh, such grand plans we had …
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