Chocolate Cream Roll
by Leticia asked me to post this recipe, and I’m finally getting around to it. Since seeing it on the November 1979 cover of Family Circle …
Category: Cooking and Food
Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses
Yesterday the girls and I spent from 8:30 AM-5:30 PM making graham cracker gingerbread houses. We do this each year with homeschooling friends…one of our …
Cowboy Cookie Mix
This is a tasty cookie mix–and the layers in a quart jar are visually tempting…from your basic flour, white and brown sugars to quick oats, pecans (optional) and …
A Recipe for Comfort
Comfort food. When I’m sick, I want my mom’s chicken stew with dumplings. Or my mother-in-law’s chicken and rice casserole. What does it for you? …
Sweet Potatoes, Bananas and Honey, oh my!
I’m convinced that someone like me must have invented the following recipe. Someone not very fond of the traditional sweet potato-marshmallow-smothered hot dish. And that’s …
Thanksgiving Tradition
As I made my desserts in prep for today’s feast at my big sister’s house, I thought about all the times loving hands had prepared …
Texas-style Lasagna and Mid-western Hospitality
In the two weeks following the birth of my second daughter, we were blessed every other day by friends bearing home-cooked meals. Out of these …
Variation on Twice Baked Potatoes
What’s for supper? A question I often call and ask my big sis when toying with the possibilities. (See why I function so much better …
Up to my elbows in pears…and migraines.
Well, nearly my elbows. Five hours of pears, two pies, several pints of pearsauce later…oh, and a pan of oatmeal bars for dh…you get the …
Amish Friendship Bread~all you need to know!
Mmm. Who hasn’t had a loaf of this cinnamon-sugared sweet bread? It’s one of those things that you receive with enthusiasm, and send on its …