One of my favorite summery recipes is a fruit crumble. It’s quick. It’s versatile. You can use whatever fruit you have on hand. And it’s just so tasty! I use Jamie Oliver’s recipe for the topping and about a pound of fruit for the filling. This past weekend I made my favorite combination: apples and [...]
No bakes must be the easiest, tastiest little cookie treat in the world. I’m not certain if they’re just a southern US thing or not, but none of my coworkers had ever heard of them or experienced their goodness. I thought that maybe some of you might not have ever had them either. My mother-in-law gave [...]
Last Sunday night, the hot water heater gave up the ghost. It was old and cranky. Having no hot water made me cold and cranky. The natural thing to do seemed to be to make cinnamon rolls. Warm, delicious cinnamon rolls. I used Paula’s recipe because when it comes to comfort food, her recipes have [...]
Today is my last day of work until the New Year. So exciting! So I wanted to bring in an edible office gift. Lottie + Doof has a wonderful 12 Days of Cookies series going on and day 5 was a recipe from Matthew Rice for Gooey Butter Cookies. Gooey Butter Cake is a St. [...]
Joel’s been asking for oatmeal raisin cookies ever since I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies last week. Poor guy ate two before asking where the raisins were. The very best recipe I’ve tried for oatmeal cookies is the one on the Quaker Oats tin. They call them Disappearing Oatmeal Cookies and it’s the perfect name! [...]
Mmm, summer tastes good! I’ve been making lots of vegetarian meals lately and they just seem so fresh and perfect for this early summer season. Tonight I made salad and the yummiest potatoes. I almost had my plate cleaned before I remembered to take a photo! How to Make These Delicious Potatoes You’ll need: butter, [...]
Here are the super yum snickerdoodle cookies I made this morning! 3/4 Cup softened margarine 1 1/2 Cups sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla extract 4 Cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. cream of tartar 2 tbsp. sugar 1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
I love to bake and I like to try new recipes, but there’s nothing better than whipping up an old favorite. You know, the kind of recipe that you don’t even have to look up, you’ve made it so many times. One of my old favorites is a recipe for chocolate & peanut butter scones [...]
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